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One of the big news items in the realm of e-commerce over the past year has been Shopify‘s movement into the bitcoin space by allowing their 120,000+ merchants to accept bitcoin.
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This effectively enables merchant to not only accept bitcoin, but to also expand that to litecoin and dogecoin should they so choose.
September was certainly an interesting month in this market. At the start of the month we witnessed the price drop below $500 USD on all markets. This was perhaps caused by the announcement of the giant Alibaba offering an IPO (initial public offering).
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The Rise of The AltCoins On September 15th, we saw the rise of Darkcoin and Dogecoin, as well as the recovery of BlackCoin. Dogecoin rose from 40 satoshis to post-80 satoshis to its current price of 70 satoshis. Darkcoin also saw an uptrend from 0.005 BTC to post-0.008 BTC and is now at 0.008 BTC.
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Bitcoin Vietnam! Vietnam now has an official exchange for trading bitcoins and even offers ¨off-chain¨ transactions.
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PayPal has entered into agreements with leading Bitcoin payment processors BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin. Starting today, these agreements let PayPal digital goods merchants accept Bitcoin with a simple integration through the PayPal Payments Hub. This will be available to merchants in North America first."
BEVERLY HILLS, CA--(Marketwired - Jul 9, 2014) - HUSTLER.com, the leader in adult entertainment, is offering an unprecedented level of member discretion thanks to a partnership with digital currency payment processor, GoCoin.
