Online Education Platform Skilljar Allows Instructors to Accept Bitcoin
Title edited, as it was noticed we had used the same exact title as CoinDesk. An interesting announcement today. Skilljar, a company that allows organizations to offer courses on the Internet, has stated that instructors using their service are now about to accept payments in the form of bitcoin. Hundreds of instructors are said to use the Skilljar platform to offer customers courses in everything from yoga to coding, right from their own website, according to this morning's press release. Instructors have the bitcoin payment feature automatically enabled, Skilljar says, along wiht more....
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Skilljar, a tech company that specialises in enabling third parties to deliver online training courses, has started accepting bitcoin payments. Skilljar says its platform is used by hundreds of online instructors, who offer classes in a wide range of different fields, from yoga to programming. The instructors can now be paid in bitcoin using Skilljar's e-commerce platform, alongside credit cards, debit cards and PayPal, with the cryptocurrency being immediately converted to fiat at the time of the transaction. The company joins a group of other educational platforms that have embraced....
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