As 2018 came to an end, we use the opportunity to put in writing what we have accomplished, and what our plans for the future are. Read on! We strongly believe 2018 was a healthy year for the entire blockchain space. For us at CoinGate, it was a wild ride, though – despite the market downturn. Without further ado, let’s jump into [...]
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In a growing industry of global crypto payments, nothing seems to be more important than a mass adoption of a wider variety of cryptocurrencies. Currently, such commonly used cryptos like Bitcoin, Litecoin, or Ethereum are already quite well-known. However, there are many others that deserve a spot under the sun. Though the lack of [...]
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It is our pleasure to announce the opportunity for ERC-20 and other Ethereum tokens to be implemented on our platform, for both merchant payments and trading. CoinGate has always had the interest in the development of new cryptocurrencies that most benefit the industry. To us as a payments platform, helping the adoption and real-life use [...]
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Due to our long-lasting partnership with Skrill, its users can directly and instantly purchase major cryptocurrencies using CoinGate services. Currently, Skrill users can come to CoinGate and instantly purchase 11 digital assets, including Bitcoin, Litecoin, XRP, Ethereum, Dash, Nano, TRON, and more. Take me to CoinGate We know buying [...]
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Our Lightning Network pilot launch is underway! Over 100 merchants are now accepting LN payments in our pilot phase. Check below for some websites where you can pay with Lightning! Just a week ago we published our first post on Lightning Network while we were still testing it on our demo shop (where you can still try testnet LN [...]
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Just over a month ago we launched Lightning Network payments on a test shop running on our Sandbox environment. Now, we are getting ready to go live and let our merchants accept LN payments – and we couldn’t be more excited. Our pilot launch is set to go live on July 1 already! But what is Lightning Network and why is it [...]
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Our team is pleased to be in a unique position of facilitating and promoting blockchain adoption. In 2018, CoinGate has already processed 100,000 cryptocurrency payments for merchants – more than we did in the whole 2017. We are also proud to have crossed the 50,000 mark of registered users on our platform. Two big CoinGate [...]
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CoinGate users can now buy Litecoin and Ethereum. Login to your account to be among the first ones to do so! We are also pleased to announce that we will soon launch LTC and ETH as native currencies to our merchant payment gateway. Amid the tumbling cryptocurrency prices, we have witnessed a healthy spike in Altcoin payments through our [...]
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2017 was a fascinating year. With Bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies becoming the hot topics of the year, CoinGate has rapidly grown alongside. Here is a brief wrap up of what we have accomplished, and what exciting new plans we have for the near future. 100,000 merchant payments processed by CoinGate in 2017! Bitcoin has grown [...]
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In June 2017, CoinGate has introduced the first of its kind option to buy Bitcoin with Mobile Credit. Now, we are pleased to say that CoinGate is relaunching the feature once again! Moreover, we are planning to extend this feature to buying Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin and other cryptocurrencies. Our team was happy to receive many positive [...]
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Every new Bitcoin block now has 5 to 7 transactions related to CoinGate. Even though we contribute just a small amount of transactions to the Bitcoin network, we believe in being responsible towards the Bitcoin blockchain. Therefore, we have implemented SegWit addresses across the CoinGate platform to reduce our impact on the network. [...]
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As a merchant using our payment gateway, you can improve your customer experience and conversions at checkout by using our extended API functionality to extend invoice expiration time (when payouts are in BTC). We have 2 features that make the payment experience a bit more convenient for customers. We strongly recommend using them to [...]
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As a Merchant using our payment gateway, you can improve your customer experience and conversions at checkout by using our extended API functionality to accept underpaid orders automatically. We have 2 features that make the payment experience a bit more convenient for customers. We strongly recommend using them to prevent the bulk of [...]
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CoinGate Merchants are already reaping the benefits of accepting not just Bitcoin, but Altcoins too. To make paying with Altcoins even more convenient from the user’s point-of-view, we’ve been tweaking our invoice page. The upgrade is going live soon, and below is a sneak peak of the work-in-progress! Bitcoin has maintained [...]
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Looked for more reasons to use CoinGate? Well, here you go: we have integrated with ShapeShift to enable your customers easy payments with 40 altcoins. It’s time for Altcoins! The altcoin market is growing rapidly, and we are aware that customers are looking for ways to spend them. Just in two months, the price of Ethereum has [...]
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