BitPay Presents Bitcoin Checkout to allow merchants to accept mobile payments with Bitcoin

Checkout Bitcoin is the latest solution proposed to date BitPay , a mobile application available for the Android and iOS platforms that allow merchants to accept payment via Bitcoins on their devices. The idea is that traders can make use of it separately or together with the systems available at the point of sale. Payments made ​​shall be sent and verify instantly, with even easier with support for NFC.

From BitPay believe that they are offering a seamless experience, considering it all in an ecosystem of open wallet, and following the path that aims to make Bitcoin payments with a simple experience to everyone.

In this regard, he noted that Bitcoin Checkout is flexible and includes additional features designed for service providers, including support for multiple employees, touch screen optionally, simple reports and meeting advice purchase identifier introduced from another system point of sale. Orders will support prices for over 150 currencies and past payment information is only taps away, as stated in his blog .

Bitcoin Checkout will be presented at the Money2020 event to be held this week in Las Vegas, inviting users to go to their flag to see a demo of it.

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Circle creates app for android and iOS to send, receive and process bitcoins in dollar

Circle ( circle.com/en ) is a company that works to enable users to store and use the money anywhere in the world, a company that invested in the idea of Bitcoin long as we can see on their website Presentation:

We are so excited about Bitcoin and electronic money as we were when we found online for the first time in 1990. We believe that opportunities to transform payments and finance are as large today as it was in 1993 to transform the media information, communication and commerce through web.

Now they have created mobile applications for Android and iOS that allows users to make payments, submit and request money and convert between Bitcoin and dollars, but for now can only be downloaded in the US (already working on the internationalization of them). The Circle website is now available in seven languages, but we can only link a bank account in the United States.

With these apps routine tasks may be carried out in the digital world, the protagonist being the bitcoin. A "paypal bitcoin" that many users have been waiting for some time, it also being possible to use QR codes and convert between dollars and using Bitcoin accounts and related bank cards, as discussed in TC .

In regards to security, integrate with authentication modes in two steps, PIN codes and other systems TouchID specifying in your blog .

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