Image Sharing Platform Imgur to Support Bitcoin Payments for Premium Accounts
An interesting scoop has been published by bitcoin news website Coin Fire which suggests that image sharing platform Imgur will soon be accepting bitcoin payments for their premium accounts services. The news comes from "multiple sources" of the publication, comes following numerous requests from the company. To add, a Reddit user posted a screenshot of an email conversation with one of the company's employees, which reads: We intend to allow payment by bitcoin in the near future, but there's no ETA on when it will be added yet. We're also looking into dogecoin. We cannot verify the....
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