Now, Amazon-like asian company will use Bithumb’s payment service and it can be very useful and benefit cryptomarket. Read it in a BitCoin news:
Certainly one of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Bithumb, has started supplying a cryptocurrency payment plan to a significant online marketplace it describes as “Asia’s Amazon . com.” Korean users may use their cryptocurrencies held in the exchange to cover purchases on Qoo10 by using this service.
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb announced on Wednesday the launch of their “cryptocurrency payment service” for major shopping online marketplace Qoo10, so it known as “Asia’s Amazon.”
The 2 companies signed an agreement in August and also have been creating a payment service for Qoo10 that utilizes Bithumb cash.
A Bithumb representative described to news.Bitcoin.com that for every customer:
Bithumb funds are the entire asset [value] of [their] cryptocurrencies and KRW.
Bithumb began providing the “Bithumb cash payment service for Qoo10 in the fifth of the month,” the exchange authored. This payment choice is now on the marketplace alongside Payco, Paypal, and E-money.
The representative emphasized that presently this particular service is just open to Koreans, including individuals living overseas. People from other countries residing in Korea cannot utilize it, the representative noted, adding the company is scheming to make it open to all users.
Qoo10 operates seven localized online marketplaces in five countries, its website details. Bithumb described this marketplace like a Korean e-commerce company that’s “the No. 1 shopping center in Singapore, and has turned into a leader in Asian e-commerce markets for example Hong Kong, China and Indonesia.”
Bithumb revealed in November this past year it had become focusing on developing a “simple” payment system to permit its people to make use of their cryptocurrencies and KRW to cover products or services, Chosun described.
The official from the exchange described at that time that cryptocurrencies locked in Bithumb accounts may be used. “The procedure for converting virtual currencies into Bithumb funds are done instantly according to market prices,” this news outlet detailed.
The Bithumb representative confirmed to news.Bitcoin.com:
BTC is going to be converted instantly into KRW in the market rate.
Users can specify which cryptocurrencies is going to be offered first to pay for an order following the Korean won within the account runs out.
Sedaily reported in April that shop proprietors may also choose whether or not to accept payments in Korean won or cryptocurrencies. However, if your shop owner chooses cryptocurrencies, the amounts during the time of withdrawals might be not the same as the amounts compensated by customers because of cost fluctuations of cryptocurrencies. “Most franchisees wish to prevent cost fluctuations, so that they frequently choose to utilize the won,” the publication quoted Bithumb explaining.
Recently, Singapore-based BK Global Consortium acquired a big part stake in Bithumb, as news.Bitcoin.com reported.