Stripe Starts Taking Crypto Payments Again, Four Years After Ending Bitcoin Support - BitcoinEthereumNews.com
Stripe has started accepting cryptocurrency as a means of payment again, four years after the online payments company dropped support for bitcoin (BTC), according to co-founder John Collison. ● “Stripe now supports crypto businesses: exchanges, on-ramps, wallets, and non-fungible token marketplaces,” Collison लिखा था on Twitter on March 10. “Not just pay-ins but payouts, know-your-customer (KYC) and identity verification, fraud prevention, and lots more.” ● The Irish-American firm ended support for BTC payments in January 2018. It said at the time that the digital asset had “evolved to become better-suited to being an asset than being a means of exchange.” ● But as transaction fees began to fall and settlement times improved, the e-commerce platform has started to again integrate crypto-based payments. ● According to its website, the company will allow crypto businesses to “process payments for fiat currencies globally through a single integration with fraud prevention and authorization optimization built-in.” ● Stripe, which processes payments for companies like Google and Amazon, said the toolkit for crypto entities includes API integrations like Stripe Conect, which allows users to pay out fiat currencies in over 45 countries, and Stripe Identity, an identity-verification system to curb fraud. ● The company is working with Sam Bankman-Frieds FTX exchange and