CEO Says Bitcoin ‘Unsexy’ As BlockPay Adds DASH To Currencies

CEO Says Bitcoin ‘Unsexy’ As BlockPay Adds DASH To Currencies

Privacy focused altcoin DASH has partnered with payments platform BlockPay to enable its use for point-of-sale (POS) purchases of goods and services. The collaboration is only the latest in a series of high-profile gains for the coin, which is trading at all-time highs of $26 Friday. Munich-based BlockPay’s POS tool facilitates cryptocurrency as a payment method, providing stiff competition to card companies through its lack of merchant fees. Although the platform supports Bitcoin and Ethereum among others, CEO and co-founder Christoph Hering said in a press release that Bitcoin was....


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