James Carter of AltXE Discusses ChainPay

James Carter of AltXE Discusses ChainPay

AltXE is a startup aimed at creating Bitcoin service products. The company is currently launching its first product, ChainPay, which provides payment processing services to online merchants. ChainPay is backed by a major European bank, which will charge 1% fee to merchants. We contacted James Carter, Founder of AltXE, to speak about this new service. I’d encountered Bitcoin a few years before I considered launching a Bitcoin based startup. About 3 years ago I wanted to start accepting Bitcoin on a website of mine, but found there were no payment providers that would do this for me in a....


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