LocalBitcoins Debuts Bitcoin Billing as First Merchant Feature
LocalBitcoins has added a new section to its website where users can send and manage invoices, allowing them to receive customer payments in bitcoin. The offering marks the peer-to-peer platform's first merchant-specific product, and follows a period of heavy demand, according to founder and CEO Jeremias Kangas. Kangas framed the tool as a basic offering that would nonetheless prove effective at meeting the needs of merchants today before expanding to include additional functionality later. He told CoinDesk: "Many of our users have requested this feature, and it extends quite nicely our....
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Source: localbitcoins.blogspot.fi. Today, LocalBitcoins.com announced the coming of their very own bitcoin ATM solution. Aptly named the LocalBitcoins ATM, the device allows users to both buy and sell the digital currency. Users buying bitcoin at the ATM are provided with a redeemable code to be used on LocalBitcoins.com. Selling requires the user to load bitcoin on their LocalBitcoins wallet, go to the ATM URL and a code is provided. The user types the code into the machine, and out it comes in fiat. LocalBitcoins says the machine can be programmed to support over 100 currencies from....
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