ShapeShift Launches The Shifty Button: Easily Accept Altcoin Payments
Instant cryptocurrency exchange, ShapeShift has released a new tool that allows website owners that currently accept Bitcoin payments or deposits to now accept any ShapeShift supported altcoin. Known as the Shifty Button, the company’s new tool works by placing a simple HTML code into any payment page. By inserting the Shifty Button HTML code on web pages that need to enable a check-out process, the user is able to deposit leading altcoins, supported by ShapeShift, and the coins will be automatically converted into Bitcoin for the website owner. ShapeShift currently supports Litecoin,....
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OpenBazaar customers can now buy in the open-source marketplace using Zcash, Ethereum, Ripple and other altcoins in addition to bitcoin, thanks to an integration with ShapeShift.io, via its Shifty Button. OpenBazaar, an open-source project that launched in April 2016, allows buyers and sellers of goods to directly create shops and sell goods without fees, restrictions or accounts. Before the Shifty Button integration, OpenBazaar was only available to those who had bitcoin to deposit. Sellers can now accept dozens of digital assets. Customers Sought Feature. “Enabling users to pay for....
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During the Miami Bitcoin Conference 2015, Bitcoinist was able to conduct several interviews and make new connections which will be posted for your reading pleasure at a later time. One of the contacts we met was Emily, a representative from Shapeshift. In this interview, we discussed what ShapeShift does and briefly talked the Shifty Button, which allows website owners to accept altcoins that are automatically exchanged into Bitcoin. For people that don’t know, what is Shapeshift and how does it work? ShapeShift is an instant exchange for cryptocurrency. It is different from a normal....
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