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...Elaine Moore Bitcoin ETF will be an exchange-traded fund that invests in bitcoin. So at the moment if you want to invest in bitcoin you need to have a digital wallet....
...Enjoy your weekend, Elaine MooreDeputy head of Lex...
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...In the UK, a man who threw away a hard drive containing private keys to a digital wallet holding 7,500 bitcoin has spent the past seven years begging the council to let him excavate an entire landfill site...
...use to purchase goods and services saying this posed “significant risks” and citing the lack of regulatory oversight, excessive volatility, the potential for use in illicit activities, theft of digital wallets...
...Enjoy the rest of your week, Elaine Moore Deputy editor of Lex...
...Headspace: how to stay sane in a pandemic Elaine Moore Spiritual enlightenment via smartphone is easy to scoff at....
...Nearly 20 years later his predictions about “mobile wallets” have been all but fulfilled and, although not everyone has one, the number of those who do rises all the time....
...Additional reporting by Michael MacKenzie and Elaine Moore...
...O2 has since launched a rival to Pingit called O2 Wallet – an app that allows customers to transfer up to £500 by mobile....
...But mass adoption of mobile wallets is likely to take longer....
...Providers are now working to educate customers, who have expressed concern at the security of using their phone in place of their wallet....
...But the lack of handsets featuring near field communication, the short-range wireless technology used for the payment systems, has prevented mobile wallets from becoming a mass market phenomenon....
...The technology necessary to turn phones into mobile wallets has existed for some time....
...“But people in Africa are voting with their wallets that the mobile phone is the way they want to connect to the world of information.”...
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