CoinJar Abandons Bank Transfers for Bill-Payments Service BPAY
Australia-based bitcoin wallet and exchange service CoinJar is gearing up to switch to electronic bill payment system BPAY as the sole means of topping up its 'Filler' balances with fiat currency. In a recent blog post, the company outlined some issues with traditional payment methods and pointed out that bank transfer-related issues account for over 25% of help requests from its customers. Therefore the company started exploring alternative payments options and decided BPAY was the best solution. As a result, CoinJar will be switching to BPAY for all Filler deposits from Saturday, 10th....
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