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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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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FinancesOnline.com has reviewed CoinGate. We’re happy to share that our gateway received an award for Great User Experience! The second, Rising Star award, gives us another reason to celebrate our accomplishments this year. FinancesOnline is a reputable source of reviews for financial business tools and payment software. The [...]
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Below is a brief statement on our position regarding upcoming Bitcoin Gold fork on October 25, and on SegWit2x fork in November. All updates regarding the forks will be added to this post. Note: There are no planned service interruptions. No forks will be immediatelly supported. Bitcoin Gold fork, October 25 We have decided not to [...]
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At the beginning of 2017, CoinGate roadmap for the year was outlined. We can say with confidence that, during the mere 5 months of 2017, a lot has been accomplished already. Read on to find out what’s happening with CoinGate, and what we plan for the exciting upcoming summer. So much is changing in the landscape of Bitcoin and the [...]
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2016 was a great year for the whole cryptocurrency community, including us, CoinGate. We have introduced a bunch of updates and new features to our platform, and we are really pleased with the results! Here are 10 things we did with CoinGate last year, in no particular order: two new localizations implemented (Russian and Lithuanian); [...]
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