Facebook Debate Prods Europe's Largest Military Surplus Dealer to Accept Bitcoin
Taking their lead from a group of Bitcoin enthusiast customers and a “serious, public conversation” on Facebook, Europe’s military surplus giant, Varusteleka, now accepts bitcoin payments. Varusteleka trades in military surplus clothing and equipment from around the world and is now aiming to expand its sales reach to customers where international payments have proven difficult. Using BitPay as a payment platform, the company now aims to ease that friction while opting to still receive the payments at their end in Euros. “Payments within the euro zone are easy enough, but payments even to....
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Dallas-based precious metals dealer JM Bullion is now accepting bitcoin. With the announcement, JM Bullion joins a growing list of US-based precious metals dealers that accept bitcoin for payments, including Agora Commodities and Amagi Metals. JM Bullion will accept bitcoin through a partnership with merchant processing startup BitPay. Customers will receive 4% discounts on bitcoin purchases, an offer also extended to those who pay with bank transfers and paper checks. Director of e-commerce Thomas Fougerousse said that he believes the decision enables the company to offer a better payment....
"ChangeTip Facebook Integration: The San Francisco based Bitcoin microtransactions startup, ChangeTip, now allows Facebook friends to Tip in Bitcoin. That was the news, that NewsBTC has been keeping track ever since we met them at CES15, in Vegas -but here is the inference, of what ChangeTip Facebook Integration means for the Bitcoin community. ChangeTip rolled out for Reddit (an obvious first choice), Twitter, Tumblr, Youtube etc. And now we have ChangeTip Facebook working in perfect harmony! This is an interesting move, both for ChangeTip and Bitcoin community as well. Here's why.......