GoCoin Becomes One of the First Payment Processors to Allow Merchants to Accept Litecoin
In addition to allowing merchants to accept bitcoin, digital payment processor GoCoin has announced that they have enabled litecoin payment processing - making them one of the first digital payment processor to do so. It's big news for the litecoin community, and GoCoin says that it solves the "Where can I spend my litecoins?" dilemma, much like in the early days of bitcoin. "GoCoin's platform was specifically designed from the beginning to easily accommodate emerging digital currencies, such as Litecoin, because we saw the massive potential of the digital currency market," said Steve....
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The big news Tuesday was that PayPal would allow North American (for now) merchants to sell their digital goods for bitcoin through the PayPal Payments Hub, but there seems to be a little bit more to the news. Something that's sure to make altcoin lovers excited. Before I get to that, I should mention that PayPal is working with the three major bitcoin payment processors out there: BitPay, Coinbase, and GoCoin. While BitPay and Coinbase operate strictly with bitcoin only, GoCoin offers support for litecoin and dogecoin in addition to bitcoin. What that means, according to GoCoin CEO Steve....
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One of the big news items in the realm of e-commerce over the past year has been Shopify's movement into the bitcoin space by allowing their 120,000+ merchants to accept bitcoin. It call started last November with a partnership with Atlanta-based BitPay, then followed by another partnership with San Francisco-based Coinbase. Today, it's been announced that yet another digital currency payment processor is partnering up with Shopify, and that's Santa Monica-based GoCoin. This effectively enables merchant to not only accept bitcoin, but to also expand that to litecoin and dogecoin should....
GoCoin has become the latest payment processor to be integrated into the Shopify e-commerce platform, joining Coinbase and BitPay in offering cryptocurrency payments options to merchants on the platform. Unlike Coinbase and BitPay, however, GoCoin will allow merchants to take payments not only in bitcoin, but also the altcoins dogecoin and litecoin. Eric Benz, GoCoin's business development advisor, said the deal has been months in the making, and was only completed because Shopify merchants like GAW Miners asked the e-commerce platform for altcoin payment options. Benz explained: "In the....