Bitpay recently partnered with Aliant Payment Systems, which is a company that provides online merchant services for credit card processing. Aliant plans to offer its customer base the option of transacting using bitcoin via Bitpay. This brings Bitcoin another step toward garnering more mainstream adoption.
The company’s official press release mentioned they are one of the first payment processing companies to offer merchants the opportunity to accept payment in bitcoin.
A Financial Magnates article explained, saying, “Aliant Payment Systems, a provider of Aliant Payment Systems Partners with Bitpay, Bringing Bitcoin Mainstreammerchant services and credit card processing based in the US, has announced that it will be partnering with BitPay, a Bitcoin payment processor, for payments processing.”
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