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Crypto Payments Adoption in FinTech: How Do Retailers Fit in?

Retail TouchPoints

However, even if you’re not yet set up for in-store crypto payments, you can still integrate a digital currency option into your ecommerce or click-and-collect offering. Payment terminals and tablets are simply not yet designed to execute cryptocurrency payments.

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Everything You Need to Know About Bitcoin and Blockchain in Ecommerce

Ecommerce Platforms

But now it’s shifting towards bitcoins and digital currencies. Digital currencies are the future of ecommerce. Local currencies couldn’t be converted to bitcoin easily and, as a result, no retailer would even think of accepting bitcoins as payment. Bitcoin is digitized global currency. Not convinced?

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A Small Business Guide to Handling Cross-Border Payments

Korona

Digital currency exchanges. Mobile and digital wallets. With the rise of more digital payments, digital currencies, and other forms of secure instant payment, non-traditional financial institutions have emerged in droves. Bank transfers. Credit card payments. Debit card payments. Prepaid debit.

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Monese vs Revolut: How Do They Differ?

Ecommerce Platforms

With their instant currency exchange and payment protection, they also make travel a breeze. Not to mention, it's easy to transfer and manage payments from the convenience of their mobile app (available on both Android and iOS). You can invest in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and over 30 different currencies. Let's dive in!

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Understanding Bitcoin Wallet – How Does It Work?

365 Retail

Bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency. It is a peer-to-peer currency and its transactions are made directly from user to user. Bitcoin wallets can be broadly divided into 5 types: software, mobile, online, hardware, and paper wallets. Bitcoin is one of the first attempts at creating a real-world medium of exchange.

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Digital Wallets and Cryptocurrency: DTC Brands Must Prepare for the Future of Money

ESW

A digital currency could level that playing field so you could sell just as easily process payments from customers in Norway or customers in Kenya. Casey Hynes at Forbes writes that mobile wallets have had a major role in the growth of eCommerce in Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam (and its nearly 100 million people).

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Gartner Predicts COVID Will Accelerate These Top 5 Digital Commerce Trends

GetElastic

Uncertainty around the virus has kept the doors to traditional brick-and-mortar stores shut for most of the past year, forcing buyers and sellers alike to adopt new digital purchasing pathways, both in-store and online.