Bitcoin Will Be “Part of the Election Cycle This Year” – Jeremy Almond Interview

Bitcoin Will Be “Part of the Election Cycle This Year” – Jeremy Almond Interview

PayStand is a payment processing service that takes the fees out of Credit Cards and enables eCheck and Bitcoin payments for a monthly fee. They recently announced that they are helping about a dozen candidates and politicians in New Hampshire accept Bitcoin donations for their political campaigns. PayStand's CEO Jeremy Almond took some time out of his busy day to answer some questions for us about politicians accepting Bitcoin, merchant adoption and the future of e-commerce. CoinTelegraph: Can you give us a quick rundown of PayStand and what it does? “Now digital currencies, I think, have....


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