It is fair to say that the impressive rise of the video games industry took most people by surprise, especially during the last decade. In fact, the exact same goes for the blockchain industry, and Bitcoin, in particular. Not only had both industries became multi-billion dollar markets, but also the driving forces for many technological [...]
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The mass adoption of cryptocurrencies is still in its infancy stage. However, there are some industries like domain or web hosting, as well as VPS services that adopt cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin more rapidly than others. In fact, hosting companies were among the first to utilize Bitcoin payments when the blockchain technology started [...]
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It is our pleasure to announce that Nano has been integrated as our newest native cryptocurrency! Any shopper can now enjoy the benefits of extremely fast, fee-less Nano transactions when paying to merchants using CoinGate. Without any doubt, the news is fantastic for both the Nano community and our merchants. Anyone who owns Nano can [...]
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CoinGate takes yet another huge step towards the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies by partnering with SIRIN LABS, the creators of ultra-secure blockchain smartphone, FINNEY™. For those who are most excited about the FINNEY™ smartphone, get ready! SIRIN LABS chose CoinGate as a crypto payment solution for their official launch of FINNEY™, [...]
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We here at CoinGate believe that people who own cryptocurrencies ultimately should be able to purchase anything they wish to. For this reason, we try to support our merchants that actively encourage wider adoption of cryptocurrencies as well as we can. Especially those who show the highest levels of enthusiasm for the blockchain [...]
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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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We all have some shopping to do before the holiday season. Whether you are looking for a Christmas present for a beloved one, or a way to spoil yourself before the New Year’s Eve, Black Friday presents the opportunity to go nuts. This year CoinGate invites you to go nuts with crypto! Shoppers – pay with crypto on Black Friday [...]
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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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Press release: Lithuania-based blockchain payment gateway CoinGate has joined forces with open-source, ecommerce platform PrestaShop, based in Paris, France. The collaboration with reach over 80,000 EU-based merchants. 20 March 2018, Vilnius, Lithuania – CoinGate and PrestaShop announce a partnership to enable tens of thousands of [...]
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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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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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CoinGate is a payment gateway dedicated to cryptocurrencies. With a simple integration, you can start accepting Bitcoin payments and over 50 altcoins on your WHMCS website! Read below for a step-by-step guide to our WHMCS Bitcoin module setup. Our basic but fundamentally sound insights suggest that customers who shop on WHMCS websites [...]
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