Mycelium Gear Offers Merchants Direct, No-Fee Payment Processing
Mycelium has announced the launch of a new merchant processor, Mycelium Gear. Merchants can now receive payments directly into a Mycelium or Electrum wallet free of charge by installing a payment widget on their website or by integrating its open-source API into their backend. In Friday's announcement on r/Bitcoin, Mycelium Community Manager Dmitry....
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