Austria: Over 2,500 Merchants Will Soon Start Accepting Payments in Bitcoin, Ether, and Dash
From summer 2020 onwards, Austrians will be able to seamlessly spend popular cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), or dash (DASH), at more than 2,500 points of acceptance using A1 Payment – a major Austrian mobile network operator. On July 2, 2020, Austrian fintech firm Salamantex announced it had integrated its Crypto Payment Service Software with A1’s Payment platform.
Now, by embracing Salamantex’s crypto payments solution, Austrian merchants will add cashless payments option by enabling customers to pay with of the payment method used by the customer, the merchant will receive the purchase price in Euros without them having to worry about incurring any exchange rate or currency risk. The fintech firm’s Crypto Payment Service Software is designed to be integrated into existing payment processes and is mulling expanding its footprint to other crypto-friendly central European countries in the coming months.