Digital currency enthusiasts browsing for cheap plane tickets and/or hotel bookings on the popular website Cheapair.com were greeted with a surprise today: Cheapair now accepts Litecoin and Dogecoin. Cheapair has partnered with GoCoin, currently the most established Litecoin and Dogecoin payment processor in the world. Litecoin and Dogecoin users around the…
PayStand has released an e-commerce plugin for WooCommerce that will give WordPress merchants a new way to accept bitcoin. With the news, PayStand joins BitPay to become the latest bitcoin payments processor to integrate its services with WooCommerce. The free e-commerce toolkit is a popular method for WordPress websites to accept payments. Speaking to CoinDesk, PayStand CEO…
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) isn’t the only higher education institution to be playing around with bitcoin. The University of Zurich in Switzerland is testing out a new NFC-based bitcoin payment solution in one of the school’s cafeterias for about two weeks (spearheaded by a group of nine individuals — students…
OmbuShop has announced a new partnership that will allow 2,000 merchants in Latin America to add bitcoin as a payment option for their online stores. Founded in 2011, the e-commerce website provider primarily caters to clothing and accessory merchants. OmbuShop is based in Argentina, but serves Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Spain.…
Earlier this week, Newegg.ca joined TigerDirect in allowing Canadians to pay in Bitcoin. Newegg customers from Canada, and soon America, can save 30% if they pay in Bitcoin, up to a $150 discount. The limited-time discount of 30% discount right off the bat is an abnormally generous offer that is simply not possible with credit cards,…
