Computer hardware retailer Newegg has
begun accepting Bitcoin payments in Canada.
Rakuten Super Logistics, an order logistics company owned by Japan - based e-commerce giant Rakuten, has
begun accepting bitcoin payments for its shipping services.
Grupo Famsa, one of the largest household appliance -, electronic products - and consumer products - focused retail company in Mexico has
begun accepting bitcoin payments with a partnership with BitPay, a leading bitcoin payment processor.
Before the new regulation went into effect, over 4,000 stores in Japan had already
begun accepting bitcoin payments.
It's only a matter of time before eBay subsidiary Braintree
begins accepting Bitcoin payments, but eBay and PayPal won't, at least not initially.
In light of the news, Overstock.com said it will
begin accepting Bitcoin payments from its international customers, becoming the first large - scale retailer to do so.
As previously reported by ETHNews, Zug
began accepting bitcoin payments for city fees of up to 200 Swiss francs (~ $ 200 USD) in July 2016.
California - based Gyft, a digital gift card platform serving the US, announced today that it has partnered with BitPay to
begin accepting bitcoin payments from customers.
It's no surprise that gift card marketplaces have been some of the first large e-commerce businesses to
begin accepting bitcoin payments, which carry no card fraud or chargeback costs for sellers.
As of today's announcement, Shopify merchants LeapMotion, Boosted, Soylent and iOgrapher will
begin accepting bitcoin payments via Coinbase.
To eliminate the financial security issues a lot of African e-commerce users have suffered from, Bidorbuy, Africa's largest online market,
began accepting Bitcoin payments March 3.
Last year, the town even
began accepting bitcoin payments for government services on a trial basis.
California - based digital gift card platform Gyft partnered with BitPay in 2013 to
begin accepting bitcoin payments.
Since Adafruit Industries
began accepting bitcoin payments, the hardware maker has raked in tens - of - thousands of dollars from bitcoiners.
The move is notable as Shopify
began accepting bitcoin payments in November, electing at the time to offer BitPay as a payment option to its merchants.
In the SEC filing, eBay and PayPal confirm that merchants with a standard PayPal account also can integrate with Braintree to
begin accepting bitcoin payments.
PayPal subsidiary Braintree has partnered with Coinbase to
begin accepting bitcoin payments.
Computing giant Dell, which
began accepting bitcoin payments last month, remains the world's largest company to take bitcoin, reporting roughly $ 57 billion in revenue last year.
Last week a Tokyo - based stress care specialist called Stylefulness also
began accepting bitcoin payments.
The platform first
began accepting Bitcoin payments for Reddit gold subscriptions in Feb. 2013, when the cryptocurrency was trading at less than $ 25 — and Coinbase was boasting that it had processed $ 1 million worth of trades in a month — and the company also accepted BTC at RedditMarket, its now - shuttered merchandise store.
British Columbia's Simon Fraser University (SFU) announced today that its campus bookstore would
begin accepting bitcoin payments starting 26th May.
In a blog post published by Steam in January 2017, the company stated that when it first
began accepting bitcoin payments several years ago, the fees for each transaction was no more than 20 cents.
Not exact matches
Square, which is best known for its dongle that helps small merchants
accept credit cards,
began officially offering
Bitcoin purchases within its peer - to - peer
payment service, Square Cash, in January, following a brief test program.
The traditional
payments industry is headed for an upheaval as more small businesses
begin accepting Bitcoin and more
payment startups rise to meet the growing demand.
Now, PayPal is
beginning to
accept Bitcoin so that you can make and
accept cryptocurrency
payments.
The site
began accepting Bitcoin as a
payment for the perk since 2013.
The Dallas Mavericks will
begin accepting Bitcoin and Ethereum as
payment next season, says owner Mark Cuban.
The range of products that can be bought for
Bitcoins has grown significantlysince the
beginning of 2014 as more and more large online retailers have followed their customers» demands to start
accepting Bitcoin payments.
On the morning of 23rd September, PayPal announced it would
begin accepting bitcoin, litecoin and dogecoin
payments via GoCoin, and
bitcoin payments via Coinbase and BitPay.
On September 9th, 2014, eBay - American electric business tycoon , announced its
payments arm Braintree
began to
accept Bitcoin as
payment; The travel rental community Airbnb and the car rental service provider Uber also announced that they would
begin to
accept the virtual currency.
«The sheer volume of new merchants has started to explode over the last month as more businesses
begin to see the value in
accepting bitcoin payments,» says Tony Gallippi, co-founder and CEO of BitPay.
It just doesn't make economic sense to
begin accepting BTC as
payment — it doesn't result in much higher sales, because there are aren't that many customers with
bitcoin.
Hundreds of merchants have
begun accepting payments in
Bitcoin as well, especially in -LSB-...]
As part of the partnership, Clef will implement the ZiftrPAY
payment platform to
begin accepting payments in multiple cryptocurrencies, including
Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and ZiftrCOIN.
Few major retailers have
begun accepting payment in
bitcoins, and critics say the currency's high volatility makes it unsuitable for everyday transactions.
As governments
begin to issue consistent guidance on
Bitcoin, businesses may become more willing to
accept it as a form of
payment.
We've just teamed up with NETELLER, a service owned by Optimal
Payments, to enable their global payments network to begin accepting
Payments, to enable their global
payments network to begin accepting
payments network to
begin accepting bitcoin.
OPSkins
began accepting bitcoin in August after demand from their users, many of whom were already relying on online
payment methods to trade for CS: GO skins with other gamers around the world.
Less than a year ago eGifter
began using BitPay to
accept Bitcoin as a
payment option for gift cards.
Some firms, such as Perkins Coie LLP, have also
begun accepting bitcoin as
payment, immediately converting
payments upon receipt given the cryptocurrency's high volatility.
For example, China's government is
beginning to show interest in
Bitcoins (and a division of Chinese Internet giant Baidu recently started
accepting Bitcoin payments).
With just an email address and a phone, merchants can sign up and
begin accepting payments in
Bitcoin,
Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Litecoin.
The popular online gaming platform Steam is dropping its
bitcoin payments option more than a year after it first
began accepting the cryptocurrency.
FIAP will
begin accepting bitcoin for tuition
payments on classes taken as part of its Shift program, which offers shorter courses on entrepreneurship, innovation, project management and technology.
Charities that
begin to
accept bitcoin can enjoy all the benefits of the most efficient
payment network available, be able to apply donations immediately, without having to forecast future donation campaigns months in advance because of funding delays.
Small merchants really only need their own
Bitcoin Cash address to
begin accepting payments via BCH.
If you're a user of discount drink app Hotspot, you can
begin to use
bitcoin as an
accepted form of
payment to pay for your drinks.
Other news this week includes Steam gaming network announcing that they will
begin accepting bitcoin as a
payment method.
BitPay, as one of the most prominent
bitcoin payment processors, is primed to handle an influx of new clients as businesses around the world
begin to see
bitcoin as a legitimate and cost - saving way to
accept payments.
The
Bitcoin is no longer shelved, some of the largest companies in the world are
beginning to
accept cryptocurrencies such as
Bitcoin as a means of
payment.