Craigslist Enable Sellers to Accept Bitcoin, More Merchants Adopt Cryptocurrencies
Craigslist, the US-based classified advertisements platform, has perhaps inadvertently given a sneak peak of its intention to allow sellers to accept Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as an official payment method. Craigslist’s “Cryptocurrency Ok” option On December 8, a member of an online Bitcoin community discovered that the Craiglist product and service listing page for merchants included an option entitled “Cryptocurrency Ok.” The exact timeframe in which the Craiglist development team intends to fully integrate support for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies remains unclear. Given that the company has not provided any public statement in regards to its cryptocurrency payment option makes it likely they will conduct a pilot test first. If successful, they could roll out a full integration of Bitcoin in the long-term, like Square . Craigslist is the 106th most popular web-based platform according to Alexa , and is significantly larger than other widely re...