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The bitcoin payments startup OpenNode just gained access to Apple Pay, according to the startup’s head of marketing, Ryan Flowers.This could be a boon for the small subset of merchants who want to hold bitcoin, because it allows people to spend dollars through their regular fintech accounts yet still have
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Coinbase's merchant payments arm has added support for the dai stablecoin, bringing together online retail and decentralized finance (DeFi). MakerDAO announced Thursday Coinbase Commerce had integrated dai as a payment method, opening the cryptocurrency up to affiliated online merchants and online commerce platforms like Shopify and WooCommerce. The integration
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An executive formerly working on Apple's payments products has joined Banco Santander.Trish Burgess joins the Spain-based multinational as the new global head of Peer-to-Peer Payments and will direct its expansion of digital payments services globally, according to an announcement Thursday.Burgess worked at Apple for 4.5 years, her LinkedIn profile indicates,
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BitPay, a leading Atlanta-based Bitcoin (BTC) payments processor established in 2011, has joined forces with Poynt, a Palo Alto-based point-of-sales (POS) terminal maker, to simplify crypto payments and make it available at more than 100,000 retail locations around the world, according to a Finextra report on February 11, 2020. Bitcoin Payments
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Blockchain payments provider BitPay is now taking its service into bricks-and-mortar stores.Through a new partnership announced Tuesday, the firm will be offering cryptocurrency payments at merchants' point-of-sale (POS) terminals.The effort comes via BitPay's new tie-up with open commerce platform Poynt, which the announcement says already has a network of POS
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Paystand, a platform using blockchain tech to automate commercial payments, has raised $20 million in Series B funding. Backing the round are a number of VC firms including DNX Ventures, Battery Ventures, Epic Ventures, Commerce Ventures and Wildcat Ventures. Existing investors Leap Global Partners and BlueRun Ventures also took part.Paystand
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Paystand has successfully raised $20 million in its Series B funding round, VentureBeat and others reported on Feb. 6. The company will use this money to accelerate the growth of its blockchain-based commercial payment platform.The current round includes investment from DNX Ventures, Battery Ventures, Epic Ventures, Commerce Ventures and
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As Director of Business Development for popular crypto exchange Kraken, when Dan Held speaks, people listen. As such, his recent 46-tweet diatribe
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Lightning Labs, a Bitcoin payments startup has raised $10 million in Series A funding to promote the development of the Lightning payments technology and scale its developer ecosystem. The startup has also launched its first paid product, Lightning Loop to facilitate a more efficient transfer of payments on the Lightning
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Bitcoin Payment Processor BitPay reinstated merchant payments against BitPay invoices from any cryptocurrency wallet, app or exchange. This was discontinued after users complained of delays due to network congestion and related high transaction fees at around the time when Bitcoin hit its peak in 2017.At that time, BitPay had in
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