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Apple Pay users are now able to use the cryptocurrency Bitcoin to make payments thanks to Apple Wallet‘s support for the BitPay Prepaid Mastercard.
BitPay, the world’s largest provider of cryptocurrency payment services supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, BTC Cash, and four USD-pegged stable coins: USDC, GUSD, PAX, and BUSD. BitPay CEO Stephen Pair comments, “We have thousands of BitPay Wallet app customers using the BitPay Card who are always looking for new places and ways to spend their crypto. Adding Apple Pay and soon Google and Samsung Pay makes it easy and convenient to use the BitPay Card in more places from day-to-day items to luxury purchases.”
As BitPay has announced that they will be adding support for Apple Pay, the question of course will be when it will also be available for other payment gateways. The world’s largest provider of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency payments said that they will also arrive on Google Pay and Samsung Pay later this quarter but no […]
Do you prefer paying in cryptocurrency? Do you have some spare bitcoin that you’d like to use? Then you might be interested to learn that Google Pay and Samsung Pay will soon support cryptocurrency payments.
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BitPay, a Bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment provider, announced that U.S. cardholders can add their BitPay Prepaid Mastercard to Apple Wallet, making it more convenient to purchase everyday items using the cryptocurrency payment service, according to a Friday press release.
BitPay Prepaid Mastercard holders can use Apple Pay to make in-store, in-app and online transactions, per the release. The company also said it will begin supporting Google Pay and Samsung Pay later this quarter.
BitPay customers who haven t received their plastic card can add their virtual card to their Apple Wallet through the BitPay Wallet app, the press release said.