Salvadoran Bitcoin Users Can Now ‘Tap to Pay’ With CoinCorner’s Bolt Card
CoinCorner is expanding its Bitcoin services to El Salvador, including its Lightning-enabled NFC card, letting citizens pay in BTC with a simple tap.CoinCorner is launching its services in El Salvador.The company aims to fill in a user experience gap in the country that last year became the first to declare BTC a legal tender.CoinCorner will also partner with IBEX, a Bitcoin and Lightning payments gateway provider, to add support for its NFC-enabled Bolt Card.Bitcoin company CoinCorner is expanding its services to the Latin American region as it seeks to take advantage of growing adoption....
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CoinCorner, a Bitcoin Lightning-based card payment service provider, is looking to install NFC card readers across El Salvador to offer a seamless retail BTC experience. El Salvador-based Bitcoin (BTC) holders could soon spend their BTC using the “tap-to-pay” feature wherever the near-field communication services (NFC) card readers are available. The cardless pay service would be utilizing Lightning Network (LN) to facilitate retail BTC transactions.Contactless card payments are quite popular in the current fast-paced world, and with the help of LN, these services can now be utilized by....