Min.io joins the bitcoin-for-digital-content party
Another bitcoin-based site has launched, enabling digital content creators to sell their wares. Min.io is offering an easy way for writers, illustrators, musicians, and other artists to sell digital content. But will bitcoin-based digital content sales take off? Min.io was developed by three brothers: Niel, Simon, and François de la Rouviere. They were fed up with the complexity of taking payments online through credit cards, or payment processors like PayPal. Setting up online stores to sell their songs or games is overkill, they said. Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin enable value to be....
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