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CoinPayments Integrates Gift Card Purchases Onto Platform

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One of the ongoing narratives for cryptocurrencies is that there is no practical use for them in the retail sector, citing slow transaction confirmation times at checkout and price volatility risk for merchants as primary factors. While this may have held true during the early days of cryptocurrency adoption, many of these issues have been resolved with the creation of tokens with near-instant confirmation times, or tokens that are pegged 1:1 to fiat currencies. Nonetheless, the status quo still believe there is inherent risks in paying with and/or accepting cryptocurrencies…

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The CoinPayments Team Continues to Grow

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A global vision such as CoinPayments’ must be matched by an ambitious development team, which is fortunately what we have. Expanding the tech team at this point is logical as it will help us continue to deliver secure and stable payment solutions with more efficiency and reliability than ever. Our team works hard to create a user-friendly process and is constantly brainstorming new ways to make it easier for vendors to accept cryptocurrency payments. Right now, we are supporting over 1,300 cryptocurrencies with over 2.5 million wallet users and vendors…

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AGX Pay with CoinPayments at IRX2019

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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…

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CoinPayments $30m Series A Raise Live Now

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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…

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

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  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…

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CoinPayments Teams Up With Blockchain.Radio

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  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…

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UNIFY Partnership

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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…

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The Unsung Heroes of Technology

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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…

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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…

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