Coinbase Introduces Personal Payment Pages
San Francisco-based Coinbase today announced one of their newest features: personal payment pages. These pages provide the user with a personal page from which they can receive donations or payments right from the Coinbase website, eliminating the need for the sending party to jot down long bitcoin addresses (and let's be honest, they can be easy to mess up). Payment pages are available in the following format: coinbase.com/username. Each user has the option of creating a unique username. For example, I've created my own page at coinbase.com/eric (if you send funds I will be using them to....
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San Francisco-based bitcoin services provider Coinbase has launched a new feature called Payment Pages that enables users to have a social, sharable payment profile. The company is promoting the effort with the help of notable names and charitable efforts. Nas, Marc Andreessen and Code.org are just some of the luminaries that have created Payment Pages for the official launch. The proceeds of bitcoin transactions to these accounts will go to charity. In a post on the official Coinbase blog, the company states: "This personal address makes it easier than ever for people to know where to....
Merchants using Coinbase's services to accept bitcoin payments may be particularly interested to know that the San Francisco-company has improved their checkout payment pages, giving them a refreshed look and improved functionality, while allowing merchants greater flexibility when customizing these pages. For customers already logged into Coinbase, two-click purchasing has not been affected, and sending bitcoin payments is still quick as ever. Some new items however include the ability for merchants to add cover pages. Merchants can get really creative here, and make their checkout pages....
If today's news that Coinbase is introducing personal payment pages wasn't enough for you to take in, here's another. The San Francisco-based company today delivered an update on their ongoing educational promotion that they announced about two weeks ago. Just in case you're not up to date, the company announced they would be giving $10 worth of free bitcoin to students with a .edu email address at the top 500 higher education institutions in the world. The company had already started the promotion secretly by the time they announced it, and had already managed to pay quite a few students,....
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San Francisco-based Coinbase today announced they have added support for bitcoin payment URLs, so when a user enables this feature, they'll be able to click on bitcoin payment URLs and be directed to Coinbase. Coinbase then pre-fills each of the fields (bitcoin address and amount), which helps the consumer make some time and send through their payment with ease. "Ease of use is especially important when sending payments to merchants during a checkout, like when making a purchase with bitcoin on Overstock or Fiverr," the company wrote on their blog. "Using Coinbase as a bitcoin URL handler....