Coinbase Teams Up With BitMonet To Make Bitcoin In-App Purchases a Reality

Digital wallet Coinbase is collaborating with open-source bitcoin payment effort BitMonet to enable in-app bitcoin transactions on Android. The two companies are joining together to release a software development kit (SDK) that will allow users to send and receive bitcoin on the platform. "The idea behind this SDK is to make it super simple for an Android developer to monetize virtually anything with bitcoin," said Ankur Nandwani, the lead developer behind BitMonet. Nandwani also claimed the kit could provide a way for bitcoin microtransactions to proliferate further. These tiny payment....

Today, BitPay Inc. announced a new partnership withBitMonet. BitMonet's partnership with BitPay will permit customers to monetize content with bitcoin micropayments. BitMonet's embrace of Bitcoin through BitPay alleviates excessively high interchange fees that make many micropayments impractical. As a peer-to-peer electronic cash system, Bitcoin paves the way for micropayments over the Internet. International payments are also more feasible. BitMonet provides publishers with a monetization tool for digital content. BitMonet was started in 2013 by Ankur Nandwani and Valerie Chao and is free....

Payment processor BitPay is working with an open source project called BitMonet to enable microtransactions for publishers. The project allows publishers to install paywalls on their web sites, charging for access to digital content using a variety of models. Started by Bo Li, Ankur Nandwani, and designer Valerie Chao, the project was conceived at the Bitcoin 2013 conference in May. The BitMonet system is different from other microtransaction systems such as Coinbox.me or Coinbase's microtransaction service says Ankur, because it focuses on a particular vertical industry - publishing -....

Payments giant Mastercard has partnered with cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase to make non-fungible tokens (NFTs) more accessible to everyone. Mastercards can be used to make purchases on Coinbase’s upcoming NFT marketplace. Mastercard Partners With Coinbase Payments giant Mastercard and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase independently announced their partnership Tuesday. Mastercard stated that the company is “Making it easier for everyone to buy NFTs,” elaborating: We’re excited to announce today that we’re partnering with Coinbase to let....

Shopping at Target, Best Buy, and other retailers using bitcoin may have just gotten a whole lot easier. One-tap shopping app Pounce has teamed up with Coinbase in order to allow consumers to complete their purchases using the digital currency, opening their doors to a whole new customer base. Other retailers users can buy from include Lord & Taylor, Toys