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Substack – a content platform backed by Andreessen Horowitz – will allow users to access VIP content in the future granted they pay with cryptocurrency. The content can be accessed utilizing the company’s new payment processor known as Open Node. Substack Is Pushing the Bitcoin Agenda Further This is a big deal in the sense that the firm is now pushing the initial goals of bitcoin and cryptocurrency closer to reality. The fact is that bitcoin and many of its altcoin...

AMC movie theaters are allowing people to pay for movie tickets and concession items (such as popcorn and other goodies) with bitcoin by the end of the year. AMC Will Now Accept BTC The movie theater chain made the announcement in a press release earlier in the week. Moviegoers will now be able to see their favorite films and catch up on the latest movie franchises by paying with the world’s number one digital currency by market cap. This brings bitcoin closer to its primary goal of being...

Just yesterday, Live Bitcoin News reported that Amazon – arguably the biggest retailer in the world – was going to begin accepting cryptocurrencies by the end of the year as forms of payment. However, now it looks like this idea was a simple rumor, and Amazon has come out to suggest that it has no plans whatsoever in accepting bitcoin or other forms of digital assets as payments for goods or services. Amazon Says “No” to BTC Payments… For Now At this stage, bitcoin...

Guillaume Pousaz has become one of the biggest fintech leaders in the world. As the founder of Checkout.com, Pousaz initially sought the investment banker route, but later dropped out of college to pursue surfing in California full time. Guillaume Pousaz: Crypto Adoption Is Still Somewhat Low When things on the ocean did not quite pan out the way he had hoped, Pousaz got a job at International Payment Consultants and then left to create his own digital startup. This...

What do mosquitoes and bitcoin have in common? Well, nothing really, though there is a company called Spartan Mosquito – designed to kill and control the population of the nasty little bloodsuckers – that just accepted its first bitcoin payment. Now, it looks like it is on a quest to accept bitcoin and several other cryptocurrencies for all its products and services in the future. Spartan Mosquito Will Accept BTC The crypto world is wrought with currencies that were...

A convenience store chain known as Sheetz says that it will be working with Flexa – a digital payment network – to permit bitcoin and cryptocurrency payments at all its locations in the United States. Sheetz Says “Yes” to Crypto Payments Sheetz is a chain that operates primarily on the east coast and in the Midwest. Presently, it boasts more than 620 stores in states such as Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, and West Virginia. The currencies that people will be able to...

Luxury hotel group Kessler Collection has announced that it is allowing all its customers to pay for their hotel rooms with various cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, bitcoin cash, Ethereum and Dogecoin. Kessler Collection Paves the Way for Crypto Payments Since the day that the first bitcoin was mined in early 2009, it was deemed that cryptocurrencies would one day replace fiat. That they would ultimately rise to the occasion as payment methods and outdo regular money...

If you live in Australia or New Zealand, you can buy a Coke with bitcoin thanks to the work of a cryptocurrency company known as Centrapay.Centrapay Opens the Door to BTC PaymentsRemember what a big deal it was when bitcoin was used to purchase pizza roughly ten years ago? While the transaction itself is not that important, the idea behind it is. This is because bitcoin was originally designed to be a method of payment, alongside most of the world’s cryptocurrencies. However, it has...

Several banks and digital platforms such as TaketheCoin.com are looking to help people out with crypto during these trifling times.TaketheCoin.com Looks to Revolutionize Crypto PaymentsThe coronavirus has caused several companies to close or cease operations until further notice. Restaurants, libraries, the world is being shuttered in as government leaders seek ways to combat this growing pandemic. They believe that the best way to stop the spread is to keep everyone and everything hunkered...

Bitcoin payments need to become more prominent if the cryptocurrency is ever to reach mainstream status. Block Fi has recently developed a new mobile payments solution that could potentially make bitcoin payments a normal, everyday thing.Block Fi Develops New Crypto Banking ServiceOne of the big problems surrounding bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is that many companies have been reluctant to accept them as means of payment. Thanks to their volatility and price swings, many enterprises and...