NCR Says Merchants Prefer Bitcoin to Apple Pay
ApplePay. In another positive development for bitcoin, POS solutions provider NCR Silver has declared that Bitcoin has been the most well-received alternate method of payment by merchants. That is according to product manager Reggie Kimble. Mr Kimble said that results show that their partnership with bitcoin payment processor Bitpay has so far attracted more attention from merchants that for all other comparable payment options such as Apple Pay and PayPal. He said that merchants seemed more proactive about bitcoin, and were found to be asking more questions about the cryptocurrency than....
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