BitPay Partners With $1.5 Billion International Payment Startup Adyen

BitPay Partners With $1.5 Billion International Payment Startup Adyen

Adyen, a company that provides payments services for online retail giants like Uber, Facebook and Spotify, has added a bitcoin option to its platform. BitPay and Adyen have partnered to offer bitcoin payments to gamers using Jagex, the UK-based developer behind popular online game MMORPG RuneScape. An early adopter of the free-to-play gaming model, Jagex, is the first merchant to accept bitcoin payments through Adyen's platform, credited with processing $25bn in transactions last year. Commenting on the rollout of bitcoin as a payment option, David Parrott, payment services director at....


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