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August 17, 2017, 12:50:03 PM |
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ProtonMail has revealed it is adding bitcoin as an official payment option and that other cryptocurrencies may soon follow.
The service, founded by a group of CERN scientists, has unofficially been accepting bitcoin since as far back as 2014, when PayPal froze a donation account linked to the project. Since then, users have been able to spend the cryptocurrency in exchange for service credits – but payments required a cumbersome manual approval process.
Now, ProtonMail is making bitcoin official and has developed an automated system to facilitate payments, according to a blog post. The firm cited rising activity on the bitcoin network as a driving factor for the upgrade.
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