Pay with a PIN on Pinn Platform

Pay with a PIN on Pinn Platform

The payment processing start-up, Pinn has topped the retail segment of the recently concluded Plug and Play accelerator cohort demo day. Founded by Will Summerlin and Nick Auriana with Kyle Crews as a lead engineer, the company enables bitcoin and fiat payments for merchants. Pinn's unique point of sale system doesn't require smartphone or wallet for making payments. According to the company's description, Pinn is a retail payment and authentication system built around the Internet of things. It uses a proprietary proximity technology to enable a single point of action payment process. In....


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