Online mall Rakuten to accept bitcoin in US, Germany

Online mall Rakuten to accept bitcoin in US, Germany

Japanese e-commerce site Rakuten will become the latest online shopping mall to take bitcoin, with its services in the U.S., Germany and Austria accepting the digital currency. The Amazon.com rival said Tuesday that it will use payments software from Bitnet, which Rakuten helped launch last year as a potential competitor to payment firms such as Bitpay and Coinbase. The announcement follows ...

Mon, 16 Mar 2015 20:43:11 -0700

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