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September 5, 2018 (San Francisco, CA) – Cryptocurrency payment gateway CoinGate introduces Lightning Network payment processing for merchants. Over 4,000 businesses actively accepting Bitcoin through the CoinGate platform will immediately gain access to Lightning payments without any additional efforts. Lightning Network, a [...]
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Striving for market insights, new partnerships, and well-spent time, CoinGate team will attend TechCrunch Disrupt and Litecoin Summit this coming September in San Francisco. We’re thrilled and here is why! CoinGate is gladly contributing to Vilnius becoming the Silicon Valley of the region. Yet there is no comparing it to the [...]
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The Blockchain technology is among the most important inventions of this century, often compared to the Internet in its significance. But what about Blockchain and crypto education? For over a year, CoinGate has worked with Vilnius Gediminas Technical University on cryptocurrency courses for high school students. Just a few years ago, [...]
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Buying cryptocurrency for the first time? Not sure how to best keep your coins? Here is a list of wallets CoinGate recommends. There are many cryptocurrency wallets out there, but when it comes to holding your coins, the utmost importance is security. Hardware wallets offer undoubted superiority in this regard as your coins are safely [...]
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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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Buy Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) with your Credit or Debit Card! No registration is needed. Receive coins to your wallet within the hour. This step-by-step guide walks you through the whole process of buying cryptocurrency with your card. Your first purchase at buy.coingate.com will usually take up [...]
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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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April 18, 2018 (Vilnius-Porrentruy-Tavannes) Press release: CoinGate, cryptocurrency payment processor collaborates with Swiss top-tier watch company Louis Chevrolet that creates a special edition of Bitcoin watches, sales of which will support European Association Against Leukodystrophies (ELA). Louis Chevrolet Swiss Watches and [...]
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We are glad to announce that we have expanded our payment options to users from Asia. Now, you can purchase cryptocurrencies with QQPay and direct bank transfer in China, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia in local currency. Originally created as social platform, QQ has emerged as a popular payment option in various Asian countries. We are [...]
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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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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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