Music Streaming Service Grooveshark Begins Accepting Bitcoin
Here's another big company accepting bitcoin for premium services. Music streaming service Grooveshark is now accepting the digital currency in a move that makes it one of the first companies in the music space to embrace bitcoin. Users have the opportunity to pay $5 per month for the service or $50 annually. You can see in the screenshot above that Bitcoin is clearly listed aside traditional payment methods (in addition to promotional codes, of course). Although interestingly, it doesn't appear as if the company has integrated any form of third-party payment processor like Coinbase and....
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