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AGX Pay with CoinPayments at IRX2019

April 17, 2019April 17, 2019 CoinPayments

A big thank you to AGX Pay and LODE.one for joining CoinPayments as the headline sponsor of IRX 2019. Together we pushed the adoption of cryptocurrency into the traditional world of ecommerce to explain the benefits and advantages of starting to accept cryptocurrency payments! Our Crypto Pavilion featured the team from CoinPayments, AGX Pay and Coinmotion and offered great giveaways and hands on demonstrations of the ease of use of our platforms. Watch Nick from AGX Pay describe how AGX Coin is backed by silver reserves and how the team…

CoinPayments $30m Series A Raise Live Now

December 11, 2018December 11, 2018 CoinPayments

Since 2013, CoinPayments has been a pioneer in the crypto space being the first payment processor to provide support for Litecoin and Ethereum. While other payment gateways focused purely on Bitcoin, CoinPayments saw an opportunity to become the leading altcoin payment processor in the crypto space. Since inception, CoinPayments has seen a year over year growth of approximately 10x, culminating in close to $1 billion in business transaction volume and an additional $1.3 billion in consumer transaction volume in 2017! Today, CoinPayments supports over 1,000 altcoins for a userbase of over…

O.T.L. #1: Das Radler – Chicago, Illinois

October 25, 2018October 25, 2018 CoinPayments

Welcome to the first issue of Off The Ledger with Andrew Brough, Marketing Coordinator for CoinPayments. Off The Ledger is a blog series where I interview longstanding CoinPayments customers from all over the world during my travels*. From corporate heavyweights to small business owners, e-commerce gurus to mom n’ pop shops, this section of our blog is dedicated to understanding the needs of the most important part of CoinPayments… our customers. Recently, I was in Chicago, Illinois for Loyalty Live 2018, a conferenced focused on the relationship between blockchain…

CoinPayments Teams Up With Blockchain.Radio

October 9, 2018October 9, 2018 CoinPayments

CoinPayments has teamed up with Blockchain.Radio, a Canadian web-based radio company dedicated all things related to Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies. With a vast catalogue of radio shows suited to all levels of Cryptocurrency enthusiasts, Blockchain.Radio has a show for everyone. Whether you are a seasoned trader looking for market insights, a Cryptocurrency investor looking for expert-driven commentary on existing projects, or a beginner who wishes to learn in an easy-to-understand format. “We had a look at some of their shows and were quite impressed” said Andrew Brough, Marketing Director at…

UNIFY Partnership

September 18, 2018September 18, 2018 CoinPayments

CoinPayments is thrilled to have partnered with UNIFY.org to provide cryptocurrency donations to hundreds of charitable initiatives worldwide. With the latest uprising of consciousness that the self-governance movement “Blockchain” has caused; increasingly more people are experiencing an urgent call to action within themselves. Lending knowledge and opportunities has been a primary motivating force here at CoinPayments, and to celebrate our 5th year in business in the city where we got our first start, we have partnered with UNIFY, for this year World Peace Day. To do good, we must look…

The Unsung Heroes of Technology

July 18, 2018July 18, 2018 CoinPayments

A Tribute to Mr. Data Amazon, Ebay, Bitcoin, Facebook – What do all these familiar names have in common? A code rich platform! From the simplest of our daily interactions such as paying for our subway fare or applying a beautifying filter to our selfies – to the most complex of technology riddles, like AI and quantum computing, there is always a person or team who wrote code to enable the interaction. These people are known as Core Developers (Magicians for short). A Developer’s job is to write and maintain…

GAP600

July 9, 2018 CoinPayments

Immediate Deposits and Payments for a Seamless Customer Experience It’s been 5 years since CoinPayments opened the doors to global crypto payment processing, and during this time, we’ve gained valuable input from our users and managed to apply the necessary technology to provide solutions to some of the issues that arise from the daily use of cryptocurrencies, such as slow confirmation times. As more merchants and vendors began trading and purchasing assets with cryptocurrencies, the delay for a transaction to be confirmed on the blockchain, increasingly became one of the…

Ask Me Anything Session About CPS Coin

June 20, 2018 CoinPayments

The recent Ask Me Anything (AMA) session took place on Reddit and was hosted by Samir Bandali, the Director of Strategic Partnerships at CoinPayments.net and Jag Sidhu, a Core Developer at Syscoin. They made themselves available for over an hour and opened the session for any questions to be asked about Syscoin, CoinPayments and CPS Coin. Overall it was a successful session and we feel the participants were able to get in depth answers to the questions they had. Some of the questions and topics that were covered included: Block…

CoinPayments Tips to Avoid a Cryptocurrency Scam

June 7, 2018July 3, 2018 CoinPayments

Digital currencies are an increasingly hot area with a mind-blowing 3000% growth in market capitalization in 2017 alone. As interest in digital currencies continues to grow, it is important to understand the risks. New users of cryptocurrencies often fall prey to common mistakes or scams, and CoinPayments is committed to supporting and educating users in avoiding these pitfalls. We been around the crypto world since 2013 and we have seen our fair share of scams and schemes. Below are 12 tips from CoinPayments to protect yourself against cryptocurrency scams, grouped…