MercadoLibre plans to accept BTC and cryptocurrencies as payment for all prod...

MercadoLibre plans to accept BTC and cryptocurrencies as payment for all prod...

The Latin American e-commerce platform selected Brazil to kick-off crypto payments via its MercadoPago application. MercadoPago, the fintech arm of e-commerce giant MercadoLibre, has enabled its Brazilian customers to buy, sell and hold Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and the Paxos-issued U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin Pax Dollar (USDP). In a statement issued Thursday by U.S.-based Paxos, the blockchain infrastructure platform used by PayPal and Facebook, the partnership between MercadoPago and Paxos will allow users to pay for all products sold on the platform using cryptocurrency.Today marks....


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