For all the hype lately, the digital currency remains a niche opportunity for independent sales organizations and other third-party acquirers. On the eve of the 76th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, Valve Corp. dropped a little bomb of its own. The Bellevue, Wash.-based parent of Steam, a marketer of popular online …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced its intention to extend once again the effective date of its massive 2016 rule governing prepaid accounts “to allow additional time for implementation of the final rule.” The announcement does not specify a new effective date. The agency had earlier extended the deadline from …

Bitcoin’s high-flying value has lost some altitude lately, but the cost to perform a transaction is reaching record highs. At the same time, other major cryptocurrencies have also become increasingly expensive not only to buy but to use as a means of exchange. The average fee to perform a Bitcoin …

With Bitcoin priced near $18,000 Friday morning, and with futures markets already trading Bitcoin contracts or getting set to, investors in the digital currency are riding high. Consumers who want to use Bitcoin to buy things, though, face a market rife with volatility, slow transactions, and high costs. Bitcoin exchanges …

7-Eleven Inc. announced it is testing online ordering for delivery or pickup on its new 7-ElevenNOW mobile app at 10 downtown and uptown stores in Dallas. The convenience-store chain expects to begin rolling out the app to other stores in 2018. Payments provider Clearent LLC said it received validation of …

Bitcoin’s heady rise this year has pleased investors and drawn the attention of derivatives exchanges and other institutional players, but it may also have obscured a development going on behind the scenes to solve one of the digital currency’s biggest drawbacks: its weakness as a payment method. Bitcoin, which started …

Square Inc. late Tuesday said it is expanding its Bitcoin pilot as the cryptocurrency continues to climb, briefly breaching the $13,000 level early Wednesday. The pilot, which Square launched four weeks ago for what it said was a “small” number of Square Cash users, is now being made available to …

CME Group Inc. said on Friday it will launch a futures contract for Bitcoin on Dec. 18, a move some expect will lend considerable stability to the market for the 8-year-old digital currency. Also on Friday, Chicago-based CME’s crosstown rival, Cboe Global Markets Inc., said it will announce “shortly” an …

So far, nobody is making any money betting on Bitcoin to crash. The digital currency on Sunday soared past the $9,000 mark just five days after hitting $8,000 for the first time, and the $10,000 level could be in sight as early as later Monday, according to Coindesk, an online …

Point-of-sale services provider National Retail Solutions announced wholesale grocery distributor Pitco Foods is selling NRS POS terminals in its four warehouse stores. A court ordered PayPal Holdings Inc. to give the Canada Revenue Agency, the country’s national taxing authority, information about Canadians with PayPal business accounts who sent or received …