Technically yes. On 7 December 2017, Bank Indonesia, the country’s central bank, issued a regulation banning the use of cryptocurrencies including bitcoin as payment tools beginning 1 January 2018.

Outsourcing certain facets of your business operations to third-party vendors and service providers can be a great way to save time and money, while making your business more efficient. However, outsourcing operations can also create vulnerabilities, especially if you can’t verify that your vendors—or the additional vendors they employ—are PCI-compliant.

What Is an Initial Coin Offering (ICO)? An initial coin offering (ICO) is the cryptocurrency industry’s equivalent to an initial public offering (IPO). A company looking to raise money to create a new coin, app, or service launches an ICO as a way to raise funds. Interested investors can buy

Bitcoin’s meteoric rise in prices in 2017 awakened mainstream interest in the original cryptocurrency.1 But the rise in interest has not been without consequences. One of the downsides of new investors entering the market is the increase in the number of scams, frauds, and stories of retail investors who lose