BitPay Gives Vote of Approval To Altcoins, ShapeShift

BitPay Gives Vote of Approval To Altcoins, ShapeShift

Leading Bitcoin payment processor, BitPay, recently endorsed an innovative Bitcoin company, ShapeShift. In a blog post, the company described how one could use ShapeShift to pay for things in crypto-currencies other than Bitcoin through BitPay. ShapeShift CEO Erik Vorhees calls the website, “the Google Translate of crypto-currencies” referring to how easy it is to transfer from one crypto-currency to another. BitPay mentions crypto-currencies and blockchain tokens like DASH, Ether and Namecoin in a subtle endorsement of sorts. BitPay lent its vote of approval to the exchange in a blog post....


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