Online Education Platform Skilljar Embraces Bitcoin
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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Thursday, Skilljar announced that they will be bringing their online education platform together with Bitcoin by accepting it as payment for their classes. Skilljar allows businesses to deliver online courses directly to their customers for training, simplifying the integration process and promoting education across the world. One of the most interesting parts of it all though is that Skilljar decided not to go with the popular Coinbase or Bitpay, but with Stripe, a San Francisco based payment startup program currently in beta. CCN. Skilljar's decision to use Stripe is simple: They need a....
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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