Uber and Adyen CEOs both say no to Bitcoin for now
The Adyen CEO expressed concern about Bitcoin's volatility in regards to a payment method, while Uber "quickly dismissed" discussions about purchasing the crypto asset. Chief executive officers at e-commerce firm Adyen and ridesharing and delivery app Uber are not following in Tesla’s Bitcoin footsteps just yet, but for different reasons.In an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box today, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said conversations about Bitcoin (BTC) as an investment for the tech firm have been “quickly dismissed.” Khosrowshahi was responding to a question as to whether the company would copy....
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Bitcoin accepting Amsterdam-based payments technology provider Adyen BV has expanded their next generation point of sale solutions to U.S merchants, after the firm reported its doubled annual revenue in 2015. If the firm successfully secures multiple partnerships with the country’s leading retail outlets and operators, Adyen maybe achieve another financial milestone by the end of 2016. Adyen is a leading payments company that powers e-commerce payments globally for businesses such as Facebook, Uber and Netflix. The company has also began to provide a mobile-payments tool for multi-billion....
Adyen, a company that provides payments services for online retail giants like Uber, Facebook and Spotify, has added a bitcoin option to its platform. BitPay and Adyen have partnered to offer bitcoin payments to gamers using Jagex, the UK-based developer behind popular online game MMORPG RuneScape. An early adopter of the free-to-play gaming model, Jagex, is the first merchant to accept bitcoin payments through Adyen's platform, credited with processing $25bn in transactions last year. Commenting on the rollout of bitcoin as a payment option, David Parrott, payment services director at....
In the world of finance, there is no shortage of companies willing to process payments on behalf of businesses. Adyen is one of the most-valued European payment processing companies in the world today, and they have recently announced new partnerships with Netflix, Easyjet, and others. What makes this news even more interesting is how Adyen partnered with BitPay last year to work with Bitcoin payments as well. With so many companies to compete with in the payment processing scene today, it is hard to stand out from the rest. Adyen is one of the companies managing to make a new for itself....
Adyen, one of the world's top online payment processors, has just signed on to integrate Bitcoin payments into their systems through Bitcoin payment processor BitPay. This agreement will allow over 3,500 merchants worldwide to join over 100k merchants currently accepting Bitcoin all over the globe. Facebook & Groupon Lead Adyen's List of Clients. Among the top online names who use Adyen and can start accepting Bitcoin in the immediate future include Facebook, Groupon, Airbnb, Spotify, and Ryanair. Adyen has access to four of the Internet's top five companies overall. "Interest in bitcoin....
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[UPDATE: It appears that Uber has suspended Bitcoin Builder's account and thus, the service is no longer operational.] US-based bitcoin exchange platform Bitcoin Builder has announced their release of a bitcoin service that enables users to pay with bitcoin for Uber rides. How it Works. Bitcoin Builder created a business account on the Uber network, which allows the firm to display itself as a payment method on the Uber mobile app. Users are required to use the Bitcoin Builder multi-sig wallet to associate it with the firm’s Uber business account. After the activation, users will see....