News Summary: June 15-21
Digital River is now accepting Bitcoin! Digital River is an e-commerce payment processor, but has previously been used for more conventional methods such as credit cards. Since its founding in 1994, Digital River has processed $30 billion dollars in transactions, making it one of the biggest payment processors. Due to this, I think it’s huge that it’s accepted Bitcoin. It allows people that have used Digital River for years to maybe start accepting Bitcoin, and creates competition amongst popular Bitcoin payment processors such as Bitpay and Coinbase.
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