Latin America's Leading Online Marketplace Turns to Bitcoin
MercadoLibre, one of the Latin America's leading online marketplaces, has announced its plans to integrate Bitcoin into its payments platform MercadoPago. The announcement arrived in an email to users, describing how MercadoLibre is working towards introducing innovative and easy payment methods for its customers. While stating that Bitcoin would keep its merchants' "one foot in future", the e-commerce marketplace promised transparency and speediness in its new payment option. However, the mail shied away from mentioning the countries in which the Bitcoin payment button will be available.....
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Comments added from Alberto Vega, BitPay's Regional Manager for Latin America. Latin American e-tailer Famsa is now accepting bitcoin for online purchases. The chain, founded in 1970, sells a variety of consumer goods and electronics across Mexico and the US. It is processing transactions via Atlanta firm BitPay. The news follows last month's announcement from MercadoLibre - the 'eBay of Latin America' - that it would integrate bitcoin, and a deal between Mexico's BitPagos and Entrepids to allow e-commerce stores to accept the currency. Alberto Vega, BitPay's regional manager for Latin....
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