According to Shopinbit, a European online retailer that accepts cryptocurrency for transactions, monero (XMR) was the favored payment method in June. Shopinbit reported that XMR accounted for over 74% of all payments during that period. European Retailer Shopinbit Sees Monero Payments Skyrocket in June The European online retailer, which offers over a million products, shared…
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Starting in June, users of Mercari, one of Japan’s biggest e-commerce platforms, will be able to pay for products using bitcoin. Users of the platform will also be able to use proceeds from sales to buy and sell bitcoin.
Mercari Set to Continue Displaying Yen Prices
One of Japan’s biggest online marketplaces, Mercari,…
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This past summer the American multinational technology company, Amazon, published two job listings for a blockchain lead and a digital currency expert. Now Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a principal digital assets specialist that can “help drive adoption across the global digital asset community.” AWS Is Looking for a Principal Digital Assets Specialist…
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The e-commerce portal offers the option to pay with Bitcoin, Ether and Dogecoin as well as several major dollar-pegged stablecoins. United States-based e-commerce platform Shop.com is the latest site to adopt cryptocurrency payments. The company, which is owned by Market America, announced its partnership with crypto payment service provider BitPay, which will allow it to…
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But the solution isn’t exactly simple. Boson Protocol, a project that seeks to connect the real world of physical commerce to smart contracts, announced a successful $350,000 investment round on Monday. The project is creating the “building blocks for next-gen dCommerce apps” by providing a way to redeem blockchain tokens for their real-world physical counterpart.…
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Twitch ramps up its crypto strategy with a digital currency promotion. Will more merchants follow suit? Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch appears to be ramping up its crypto strategy. The site, which focuses primarily on video game livestreaming, is now offering users a 10% subscription discount when paying with cryptocurrency through the platform’s payment processor, BitPay.…
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Crypto.com is integrating with e-commerce platform Ecwid, which now features a plug-in supported by Crypto.com that lets customers pay with crypto on the platform. Crypto.com launched a payment plug-in for Ecwid, an e-commerce platform similar to Shopify or WooCommerce. The plug-in allows merchants to accept crypto for their products. Crypto.com announced the partnership on Monday.…
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Real Items Foundation plans to release a blockchain-based Shopify plugin to ensure consumers purchase authentic products. A San Francisco-based startup called “Real Items Foundation” is beta testing a Shopify plugin to ensure that authentic items are being sold to online shoppers. The plugin –- powered by a combination of blockchain technology and a cloud-based application…
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Electra project to beta-test ElectraPay, a cryptocurrency system for merchants that purports to be free of service providers, banks or credit card companies. Electra (ECA), the open-source Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain project focused on digital payments, will begin beta testing its flagship product this month. Known as “ElectraPay,” the product functions as a financial management system…
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