NOWPayments Crypto Blog

NOWPayments Crypto Blog

Сrypto articles, news, and reviews to guide you through the world of crypto


Bitcoin payments - How to get them?

29 Jan 2021 3 minute read 0 comments NOWPayments

Buying Bitcoin may not be the best option for most people due to high commissions. It’s why getting paid in Bitcoin is a better idea. In this article, we are talking about ways to get paid in Bitcoin instead of fiat money. #1 Get Your Salary in Bitco...

Here are some businesses accepting Bitcoin

28 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments NOWPayments

Nowadays, almost everyone agrees that Bitcoin has become an integral part of today’s economy and will stay for a while. However, we don’t see the same enthusiasm for talking about the number of businesses that accept Bitcoin. True, the number of comp...

Bitcoin Double-Spend - What is That?

26 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments NOWPayments

If you have been following news from the cryptocurrency world in the past two weeks, you’d have heard the term double spending. If you take a deeper look, you’d also know that people discussed the alleged double-spend of Bitcoin. However, double spen...

Ethereum and its Upgrades

21 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments NOWPayments

Ethereum is now the most actively-used blockchain and hosts the second-largest cryptocurrency token in the world: Ether. However, people talk more about something more specific when talking about this blockchain nowadays: Ethereum Upgrades. If you ha...

Buying Games with Bitcoin - a Guide

20 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments NOWPayments

Most of the gaming platforms don’t allow buying games with Bitcoin. You could use Bitcoin on Steam in 2017, but when the ICO craze hit the crypto market, the service quit using it. “High fees and volatility” were the reason. However, you can buy pret...

Vodafone and Crypto

19 Jan 2021 2 minute read 0 comments NOWPayments

Vodafone and cryptocurrencies are two terms that don’t bear any interconnection at first glance. You don’t think of cryptocurrency when you hear the brand name Vodafone or vice versa. However, if you look a little deep into the market, you can surely...

What to do with ETH? We've got 7 suggestions!

18 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments NOWPayments

It’s hard to imagine anything in crypto that you couldn’t access with Ethereum. When the platform was launched back in 2015, its primary use case was providing the functionality of decentralized applications which there weren’t too many at the time....

Gold, Silver and Bitcoin

14 Jan 2021 3 minute read 1 comment NOWPayments

When we say “buy gold”, we don’t necessarily mean buying a physical bar of metal and putting it in the safe. Today, there are many ways to profit from the precious metals’ price movement: buying gold-backed crypto stablecoins, gold or silver exchange...

Crypto Payments and Airbnb

13 Jan 2021 2 minute read 0 comments NOWPayments

At the first glance, you can’t find many similarities between cryptocurrencies and Airbnb. But if you look closely, you can see that both of them changed the industries they belong to. While Airbnb opened up a new way of finding accommodation across...

Travala (AVA) - a Comprehensive Guide

12 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments NOWPayments

Travala.com is a blockchain-based platform that allows booking over 3,000,000 travel products worldwide, including hotels, homes, flights, tours, and activities with prices up to 40% lower than “traditional” travel services. How does it manage that?...