The Bureau on registration of patents and trademarks U.S. has published filed at the end of December 2016 the request of the company Western Union, which provides a solution to help manage alerts about the re-transfers and payments security in electronic networks. While the application States that it is including about the networks of Bitcoin, Litecoin and Peercoin.
According to the published document, Western Union, among other things, he proposed a system of verification information with biometric data such as fingerprints, irises of eyes or voice.
We will remind, last month the Director General of Western Union , Hikmet Ersek (Hikmet Ersek) stated that the company soon intends to implement solutions to transfer cryptocurrency because customers prefer digital currencies paper money because of better opportunities in the use of cash.
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