6,000 Merchants in Romania Can Now 'Opt In' for Bitcoin Payments
Netopia's partner exchange BTCXchange.ro has announced that it is suspending operations due to security issues. It is asking all users to withdraw all funds in fiat and BTC by 19th of December. CoinDesk has reached out to Netopia for comment and will update the article upon receiving additional information. One of the biggest online payment processors in Romania is integrating a bitcoin option into its services for merchants. Netopia mobilPay said the move would provide more than 6,000 partner retailers with the ability to process bitcoin payments, with no additional development costs. To....
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Payza, is one of the leading online payment processors. Today, Payza announced that merchants using Payza to process payments can now accept Bitcoin payments. Payza started offering Bitcoin services in August 2014 when they introduced an option for Payza members to buy Bitcoin directly within their accounts; later that year, in October, the company released a new Bitcoin deposits option, which allowed members to sell Bitcoin to Payza. Now the company extended the Bitcoin option to Merchants. Payza informed that the new feature has been automatically enabled on all existing Payza Payment....
Payment21 and ACI Worldwide announced on Wednesday a strategic collaboration to enable payment service providers (PSPs) to offer merchants anti-money laundering (AML)-compliant bitcoin acceptance. 56,000+ Merchants Can Now Accept Bitcoin. Headquartered in Florida, ACI Worldwide is a payment systems company which processes electronic payments for more....
Bitcoin is now available at 874 self-service payment terminals across Romania, thanks to a partnership between ATM operator Bitcoin Romania and terminal network operator ZebraPay. The ZebraPay terminals will allow customers to buy bitcoin at a 4% commission on prices taken from the Cointrader exchange. The terminals are one-way, so customers can only trade their Romanian leu for bitcoin. The terminals do not require customers to hand over identification documents when buying bitcoin. The service has been available for two days but it has already sold 7.2 BTC, underscoring bitcoin's growing....