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After 6-year hiatus, Stripe to start taking crypto payments, starting with USDC stablecoin


The company announced that it would start to let customers accept cryptocurrency payments, starting with USDC stablecoins, initially only on Solana, Ethereum and Polygon

On Thursday the company announced that it would let customers accept cryptocurrency payments, starting with just one currency in particular, USDC stablecoins, initially only on Solana, Ethereum and Polygon. Stripe co-founder and President John Collison is due to announce the news at the company’s Connect developer conference taking place this week in San Francisco. “Stripe’s support is crucial here due to the nature of Bitcoin: It doesn’t have all the qualities normally expected of money,” said one of its earliest testing partners at the time.

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