🗞 Daily News Update for Apr 11th

💱 Coinbase Launches Visa Card:
Coinbase is launching a Visa debit card, allowing users to easily spend their crypto assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin. The exchange says the card is coming to the UK first, and will let users pay with their digital assets directly. Read more
#coinbase #visa

🎥 YouTube Star to Exclusively Live Stream on Crypto-Powered Platform:
Felix Kjellberg, a YouTube star known as PewDiePie on the video sharing platform, has recently signed a deal to exclusively start streaming on cryptocurrency-powered live streaming platform DLive. Read more
#youtube #pewdiepie

💱 Ethereum Longs Outnumber Shorts by 7x:
As Ethereum gets bogged down amid high expectations, long futures contracts on the Bitfinex exchange drastically outnumber the shorts. Read more
#ethereum

Fear and Greed Index:
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🏬 Visa Goes Live With Blockchain-Powered Business Payments Service:
Visa's B2B Connect payments service, in part built with Hyperledger Fabric, has officially gone live. The service has been designed to help Visa’s corporate clients sidestep the slow correspondent banking network, opening up near instant international payments using a system in part powered by distributed ledger technology (DLT). 🔗 Read more
#visa #dlt

👥 Uber, PayPal, Visa to Back Facebook’s GlobalCoin Cryptocurrency:
Facebook has signed on more than a dozen backers for its GlobalCoin cryptocurrency, a stablecoin that has been developed in secrecy for more than six months. Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Uber, Stripe and Booking.com are part of the project, though it's still unknown what roles they play. 🔗 Read more
#facebook #visa