OpenBazaar Now Accepts Altcoins with Shapeshift Integration
OpenBazaar customers can now buy in the open-source marketplace using Zcash, Ethereum, Ripple and other altcoins in addition to bitcoin, thanks to an integration with ShapeShift.io, via its Shifty Button. OpenBazaar, an open-source project that launched in April 2016, allows buyers and sellers of goods to directly create shops and sell goods without fees, restrictions or accounts. Before the Shifty Button integration, OpenBazaar was only available to those who had bitcoin to deposit. Sellers can now accept dozens of digital assets. Customers Sought Feature. “Enabling users to pay for....
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OpenBazaar, the decentralized e-commerce platform, has partnered with ShapeShift allowing users to buy products with their favorite altcoins. OpenBazaar: Altcoins Now Accepted. OpenBazaar has announced the release of its 1.1.10 version. The new integration of the Shifty Button, a free to use and open-source tool created by ShapeShift, now allows customers to buy products with various altcoins such as Monero, Ether and over thirty others. The new option might certainly come in handy for users wanting to hold on to their bitcoin as it shoots past $800. OpenBazaar CEO Brian Hoffman states:....
The integration paves way for transactions using cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Zcash, Monero, Dash etc on the platform. The blockchain asset exchange platform ShapeShift and the online bitcoin-enabled marketplace OpenBazaar have entered into a partnership via the former’s integration of the ShapeShift Shifty Button. The integration paves way for transactions using cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Zcash, Monero, Dash etc on the platform. In simple words, customers will now be able to purchase from OpenBazar using digital assets. Launched in April 2016, OpenBazaar is an....
Users of Vaultoro are now able to purchase physical gold with Bitcoin and 35+ altcoins, including Dogecoin, Litecoin, Namecoin, Monero and others. The bitcoin gold exchange integrated the ShapeShift API on June 3. Vaultoro’s integration of ShapeShift and the “alt-coin” deposit function makes Vaultoro the world’s first gold exchange to accept both bitcoin and altcoins. “We were wanting to offer multiple altcoin payment options to customers and ShapeShift.io was the perfect answer. Their API is elegant and was so simple to incorporate into our platform.”
OpenBazaar, the decentralized marketplace has spread across 183 countries. The announcement was made earlier yesterday by the company on its Twitter channel. The project, started small in a hackathon has now become an international product fueling global e-commerce, in a decentralized fashion. The OpenBazaar platform has achieved the remarkable success of becoming a global product in less than a month of its launch. The platform was opened for public on the 4th of this month. There has been no turning back for the platform since then. While OpenBazaar accepts the only bitcoin as the....
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