Dutch Payment Service Provider Mollie Introduces Bitcoin Payments for Sites and Apps
Dutch payment service provider Mollie announced on Thursday that they have introduced bitcoin payments for both websites and apps utilizing their services. Merchants who do their business online (in partnership with Mollie) can now accept the emerging digital currency with relative ease, without the need for anything extra. Better yet, they can start accepting bitcoin immediately. These merchants (over 10,000) need not be familiar with the technicalities behind bitcoin because Mollie will simply do the work on their behalf. When a user pays with bitcoin, it will be converted into euros at....
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Dutch payments provider Mollie has now added bitcoin to its long list of online payment methods. Established in 2004, Mollie is one of the leading payments services in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, catering to more than 10,000 merchants across the Benelux region, according to the company. The company says that the addition of bitcoin will allow thousands of merchants to start accepting the digital currency immediately, without the need for further integration. Furthermore, merchants do not need to have any experience with bitcoin or even a bitcoin wallet to use the new service.....
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Hardly anyone will be surprised by the news of the Dutch Central Bank keeping a close eye on the evolution of Bitcoin and digital currencies throughout 2015 and beyond. There is only so much traditional finance can do to make payments more appealing, as all transactions have to go through the outdated legacy system. It is no secret the financial world is prone to future innovation and disruption on a global scale. Even though established payment providers are looking for new ways to make payments more secure and convenient, there is a lot of pressure from the FinTech and digital currency....