Using Stripe, Skilljar Brings Education and Bitcoin Together
Thursday, Skilljar announced that they will be bringing their online education platform together with Bitcoin by accepting it as payment for their classes. Skilljar allows businesses to deliver online courses directly to their customers for training, simplifying the integration process and promoting education across the world. One of the most interesting parts of it all though is that Skilljar decided not to go with the popular Coinbase or Bitpay, but with Stripe, a San Francisco based payment startup program currently in beta. CCN. Skilljar's decision to use Stripe is simple: They need a....
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Skilljar, a tech company that specialises in enabling third parties to deliver online training courses, has started accepting bitcoin payments. Skilljar says its platform is used by hundreds of online instructors, who offer classes in a wide range of different fields, from yoga to programming. The instructors can now be paid in bitcoin using Skilljar's e-commerce platform, alongside credit cards, debit cards and PayPal, with the cryptocurrency being immediately converted to fiat at the time of the transaction. The company joins a group of other educational platforms that have embraced....
Title edited, as it was noticed we had used the same exact title as CoinDesk. An interesting announcement today. Skilljar, a company that allows organizations to offer courses on the Internet, has stated that instructors using their service are now about to accept payments in the form of bitcoin. Hundreds of instructors are said to use the Skilljar platform to offer customers courses in everything from yoga to coding, right from their own website, according to this morning's press release. Instructors have the bitcoin payment feature automatically enabled, Skilljar says, along wiht more....
Payment giant Stripe has brought back crypto support after it stopped processing bitcoin payments four years ago. The company now says, “Our optimism for the future of crypto was not unfounded … Crypto is going mainstream.”
Stripe Brings Back Crypto Support
Payment giant Stripe has re-entered the crypto space after four years, with the launch of a suite of products to support crypto businesses.
Stripe is a payment infrastructure company headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, with 14 global offices. According to its website, millions of....
Stripe has launched its bitcoin payments integration following nearly a year of testing. With the launch, Stripe is now allowing any merchant in its network with a US dollar bank account to accept bitcoin. Integration for merchants is made possible through either its API or as part of its Checkout feature. A representative for Stripe told CoinDesk that its beta test had delivered promising results, and as part of the testing merchants within Stripe's network received both domestic and international payments. The spokesperson noted: "While in beta, Stripe merchants accepted bitcoin....
On April 22, the payments giant Stripe announced that it is expanding global payouts with crypto assets via a new pilot. Stripe’s crypto executive Karan Sharma revealed crypto payouts for the firm’s Connect service to a select group of Twitter users as the social media platform is Stripe’s first partner. Stripe and Twitter Partner to Test Crypto Payouts Feature Using the Stablecoin USDC Stripe revealed on Friday that it plans to allow businesses to pay users in digital currencies via a pilot through Stripe’s Connect service. The company’s first partner is....