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The Central Bank of Nigeria also [banned foreign currency deposit](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/06/nigeria-currency-idUSL5N10H2C220150806) earlier this month in an attempt to stop illicit money traffickers in the country.
A platform for easily storing and spending gold has enabled payments through the Automated Clearing House (ACH) network. The company's blockchain-based platform allows account holders to more easily load their accounts.
Earthport, an institutional payment processor for low value payments, recently launched the first fully compliant real-time payments gateway built on the Ripple protocol.
Payments solution provider PAY.ON transacts more than $12 Billion annually, and recently partnered with Bitnet to integrate bitcoin payments into the firm’s white label payment solution for merchants and financial institutions.
Over the weekend two bitcoin core developers released Bitcoin XT, a way to 'opt out' of bitcoin's current 1MB block size limit. This is the first attempt to resolve the ongoing debate over how to solve scalability issues for Bitcoin’s blockchain.
The North American bitcoin exchange recently announce that it will be shutting down its operations, and its founders will pursue different opportunities. The news comes just months after the angel funded exchange announced the launch of its services.
Music software development company Revelator recently became the first partner for Colu, utilizing its application layer for digitalizing assets on the blockchain.
Following a fine levied by the The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and the U.S Department of Justice , Ripple developers have continued to improve their compliance efforts, and meet the extra requirements brought on because of the violation.
California assemblymember of the 45th Assembly District, Matt Dababneh, responded to criticisms from the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) on AB 1326, a bill he sponsored that would propose new regulations for the emerging digital currency industry in California.
The Winklevoss twins, best known for their dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over the idea for Facebook, will open their institutional bitcoin exchange ‘quite soon,’ according to a recent email.
