{"id":12657,"date":"2014-12-18T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12657"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:09:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:09:13","slug":"wallettec-brings-bitcoin-point-of-sale-solution-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/wallettec-brings-bitcoin-point-of-sale-solution-to-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"Wallettec Brings Bitcoin Point-of-Sale Solution to South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"single-author\"><a title=\"Posts by Tom Sharkey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/author\/tom-sharkey\/\" rel=\"author\">Tom Sharkey<\/a><\/span> \u2014 Coindesk<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-article-full wp-image-130356\" src=\"\" alt=\"wallettec bitcoin\" width=\"630\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<p>South African payments provider Wallettec has partnered with BitPay to integrate bitcoin with its point-of-sale (POS) payment platform.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallettec.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">company<\/a> worked with South African BitPay affiliate <a href=\"http:\/\/bitcoinpayments.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bitcoin Payments<\/a> to allow merchants using its platform to accept bitcoin payments via in-store POS devices.<\/p>\n<p>The new partnership is an important step forward in bringing bitcoin to brick-and-mortar retailers in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Wallettec\u2019s founder Johan Meyer told CoinDesk that \u201cthis is the first time anybody has integrated bitcoin point-of-sale and allowed merchants to accept bitcoin payments from almost any payment device\u201d in the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/wallettec-brings-bitcoin-point-sale-solution-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Sharkey \u2014 Coindesk South African payments provider Wallettec has partnered with BitPay to integrate bitcoin with its point-of-sale (POS) payment platform. The company worked with South African BitPay affiliate Bitcoin Payments to allow merchants using its platform to accept bitcoin payments via in-store POS devices. The new partnership is an important step forward in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46710,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657\/revisions\/46710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}