Bitcoin Merchants

Cloud Storage Provider Seafile Chooses Bitcoin, Ditches Paypal

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Seafile has announced that they will ditch Paypal payments and instead turn to bitcoin. This is an interesting decision with an even more interesting rationale and implication. In 2013, Seafile emerged as a business-oriented cloud-based storage solution, with a different approach. They provided their customized storage solutions within a company’s previously existing private cloud. The service then […]

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Plugging Bitcoin, Xapo Capitalizes On Argentina-Uber Dispute

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Xapo, a bitcoin wallet that claims the largest capitalization in the bitcoin industry and a reputation for not fearing controversy, has jumped into Argentina’s battle with Uber by allowing Uber Argentina to accept Xapo card payments. Uber sent a tweet on July 3 saying “Pay your trips with Bitcoin! Loading your card @Xapo obtains a $ […]

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Coinbase Releases ‘Buy Widget’ To Simplify Buying Bitcoin

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Coinbase has introduced Coinbase Buy Widget to make it easier for users to buy bitcoin, the company announced in a blog. The hosted widget can be embedded and is configurable. The widget enables users to buy bitcoin using debit cards, delivers bitcoin to a specified address instantly, and provides a seamless user experience. Users can […]

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Silk Road 3.0 Is Back…Will It Last?

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With the re-emergence of the third iteration of Silk Road it appears that this iconic darknet market brand is here to stay. What is to be expected this time around?  A Brief History When the Silk Road first launched in February of 2011 it did so to little fanfare. But as media coverage intensified and the […]

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Bitcoin Marketplace OpenBazaar Unveils Several Additions in Major Roadmap

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OpenBazaar, a decentralized, unregulated and open-source marketplace that uses bitcoin, has released a roadmap to its second version following a better-than-expected response to its first version in April, according to Medium. OpenBazaar, which opened for business last month, has long-term plans to be a major e-commerce player. Its immediate focus is traditional e-commerce for digital […]

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PopIsle Ad Network Expands Payment Options To Include Bitcoin

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PopIsle, an advertising network connecting advertisers with online publishers, has announced in a press release that it has expanded its payment options by paying publishers with bitcoin. As a result, the company claims it has received an increase in interest from publishers. Ad networks usually use checks, PayPal and other means to transfer currencies. In […]

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BitPay Launches Bitcoin Debit Card Valid in All 50 US States

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Bitcoin payments processor BitPay has unveiled a new bitcoin debit card that will enable users to make payments at any Visa point-of-sale (POS) terminals and withdraw cash at Visa ATMs, anywhere across the United States. BitPay has launched its new BitPay Visa card, a debit card that will be available for users in all 50 […]

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San Diego Sees 2 New Bitcoin ATMs

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 The two new ATMs brings up the number of ATMs operated by CoinSource to 19 in the United States. With an announcement, Bitcoin ATM network Coinsource has installed two more Bitcoin ATMs in San Diego County, in addition to one existing ATM. San Diego now sees three bitcoin ATMs active in the County operated by […]

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Bitcoin Marketplace OpenBazaar is Open for Business

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With an announcement today, decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace OpenBazaar is open for business, in its first full version released and available for downloads. It has been nearly two years since initial chatter arose, with word of a decentralized marketplace being developed in time for a public beta in 2014. In the following years, the decentralized, unregulated […]

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Bitit Sells Bitcoin at 100,000 Stores

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Billing itself as “the easy instant access to Bitcoins,” Bitit, a Paris, France-based bitcoin sales platform, allows people to buy bitcoin for cash or credit card in stores and online. The vouchers and prepaid gift cards are available at 100,000 stores. There is a map of the stores on the company website. Bitit’s goal, according to […]

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Coinsource Installs Its First Bitcoin ATM in San Francisco

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Coinsource, a bitcoin ATM network, has installed its first bitcoin ATM in San Francisco, in a grocery store in the city’s Mission district, according to SFist.com. The installation marks the network’s 18th ATM from New York to California. The San Francisco installation demonstrates the San Diego, Calif.-based company is following through on its expansion plans […]

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Bitcoin Friendly Stripe To Allow Cuban Nationals To Incorporate U.S. Businesses & Open U.S. Bank Accounts

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Stripe, a San Francisco, Calif.-based mobile payments startup that allows merchants to accept bitcoin, has announced that its Stripe Atlas service will be available to businesses in Cuba in conjunction with President Obama’s trip to Havana this week. Stripe users, including Atlas, can accept bitcoin along with credit cards, Android Pay, Alipay and 135 currencies. Stripe […]

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Bitcoin – Commodity Or Currency; California Bankruptcy Judge To Decide

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Bitcoin’s status as either a currency or a commodity is at the center of a California lawsuit between a bitcoin mining computer company and a person the company paid to promote it, according to The Recorder, a California legal and technology newspaper. Marc Lowe, a California doctor, received payment in bitcoin to promote HashFast Technologies’ […]

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