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RELIABLE SOURCE: Visa might add Bitcoin to its payment network

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Visa’s Chief Executive Officer, Al Kelly, recently disclosed that in order to make Bitcoin and other crypto-assets safer, useful, and applicable, Visa might add them to the company’s payments network. During Visa’s fiscal first-quarter 2021 earnings call, the CEO of Visa described crypto assets like bitcoin as “digital gold” which are “not used as a form of payment in a significant way at this point.” “Our strategy here is to work with wallets and exchanges to enable users to purchase these currencies using their Visa credentials or to cash out…

Mastercard and Visa have terminated the use of their cards on Pornhub on alledged videos of child abuse and rape.

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Mastercard and Visa said they had prohibited the use of its cards on the adult website Pornhub, after The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof reported that the platform included videos of child abuse and rape.

10-year visa for doctors, engineers and students – UAE

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United Arab Emirates (UAE) has approved long term residency for doctors, engineers and brilliant students.On Sunday, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, UAE Vice President announced 10-year Golden Visas for them. He tweeted that the visa will be issued to all PhD holders in the UAE as well as top graduates from UAE-accredited universities with a GPA of 3.8 and above.