GoCoin Becomes One of the First Payment Processors to Allow Merchants to Accept Litecoin

GoCoin Becomes One of the First Payment Processors to Allow Merchants to Accept Litecoin

In addition to allowing merchants to accept bitcoin, digital payment processor GoCoin has announced that they have enabled litecoin payment processing - making them one of the first digital payment processor to do so. It's big news for the litecoin community, and GoCoin says that it solves the "Where can I spend my litecoins?" dilemma, much like in the early days of bitcoin. "GoCoin's platform was specifically designed from the beginning to easily accommodate emerging digital currencies, such as Litecoin, because we saw the massive potential of the digital currency market," said Steve....


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