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8 Best Practices for Accepting Bitcoin Payments with OpenNode
The following best practices for accepting Bitcoin payments will help improve both business operations and the customer...
How did the Twitter Hack affect Bitcoin?
As a Bitcoin company, we’re always happy to see Bitcoin trending on twitter or in the news,...
Our Commitment to Social Justice — The Beginning
Like many of you, we have spent some time processing the events that have forced the world...
Locked Exchange Rates on Bitcoin Checkouts
Bitcoin never sleeps, and the price fluctuates 24/7. To protect businesses from volatility, OpenNode has enabled Locked...
Bitcoin Fixes This: E-commerce
As the world of e-commerce continues to grow with more businesses seeking to expand their revenue through...
Cash to Bitcoin Conversions
OpenNode believes in the promise of Bitcoin as a currency that enables access, freedom, privacy, and sovereignty....
Bitcoin Merchant Spotlight: Simply Carbon Fiber
Simply Carbon Fiber (SCF) launched in 2014 out of Los Angeles California, with the vision of creating...
How to accept Bitcoin donations?
Bitcoin donations can serve to benefit any organization and support any cause. As a global digital currency...
Cash to Bitcoin Payouts
Payouts are payments originated from a business and destined for an individual recipient. Types of payouts include...
Bitcoin Merchant Spotlight: Draper University
Draper University was founded in 2012 by the venture capitalist and Bitcoin enthusiast Tim Draper in San...
What is the Bitcoin Halving?
Every four years the Bitcoin network experiences an event that reduces the rate at which Bitcoin (BTC)...
Bitcoin Payment Buttons – an easy way to accept BTC
One of the easiest ways to integrate Bitcoin payments into any business is by adding a Bitcoin...
Benefits of Bitcoin payments during Quarantine
With the global economy being affected by COVID-19, business owners and non-profit organizations should be exploring every...
Bitcoin Exchanges using the Lightning Network
The growth of the Lightning Network is now contributing liquidity to Bitcoin markets around the world. As...
Bitcoin Wallets 102: Lightning Network Wallets
With more and more businesses adding Bitcoin as a payment option every day, the race is on...
Bitcoin Merchant Spotlight: Invoice & Estimate with Alto
Alto.co is an award-winning app in the iTunes Store that combines all the necessary features of invoicing...
What is the Lightning Network?
The Lightning Network (LN) is a lightweight software solution that was built for scaling the Bitcoin blockchain...
Product Update (3/17/20): OpenNode Invoices
The OpenNode team continues to deliver improvements, and today, we are proud to announce yet another user-requested...
Advertising that your business accepts Bitcoin
Accepting Bitcoin payments at your business is not only an easy way to save money on payment...
Spotlight: Support for Bitcoin Business with Head of Operations, Kevin Adekayode
It’s no secret that quality customer support can make or break a business. With new technology, there...
OpenNode’s Solution to the Bitcoin Volatility Problem
The primary goal of the Lightning Network (LN) is to advance Bitcoin’s utility as a viable medium...
Non-profits accepting Bitcoin donations
Charities and non-profits should be accepting Bitcoin donations using the Lightning Network. Several large non-profit organizations around...
Bitcoin Merchant Spotlight: The Skatepark Project
The Skatepark Project (formerly Tony Hawk Foundation) was established in 2002 with one goal in mind, to...
Bitcoin Regulation: Which Countries are Bitcoin-Friendly
Bitcoin is having an enormous impact on the global financial system. The world’s first cryptocurrency has infiltrated...
Bitcoin Merchant Spotlight: Bitcoin Average
Bitcoin Average launched in 2013 as the world’s first Bitcoin price index and has become a premier...
Bitcoin Fixes This: Remittance
Bitcoin is the only currency in the world that can be used or exchanged anywhere internet access...
Bitcoin Merchant Spotlight: Primal Pastures
Primal Pastures, launched in 2012 in Temecula CA, started from a humble farm operation with a dream...
How many people use Bitcoin?
Who are the early adopters of Bitcoin, and how many are there? The answer isn’t easy to...
Bitcoin Merchant Spotlight: Gift Off
Gift Off, founded in 2013 in London, was one of the first companies to sell gift cards...
Happy Proof of Keys Day!
What is Proof of Keys Day? Proof of Keys is a cultural tradition born out of one...
2019: Bitcoin year in review
Bitcoin in 2019 saw exciting developments throughout its entire infrastructure. Day-after-day, Bitcoin's hash power reached new all-time...
Product Update (12/19/19): Scheduled Bank Transfers
We've updated the functionality of our bank transfer service. Our new scheduled bank transfers feature combines the...
Where to do last minute holiday shopping: Bitcoin edition
The scent of mistletoe is in the air and Jack Frost is nipping at your nose, which...
Why you should use Bitcoin
If you’re like me, when you hear of an exciting new development, technology, or product, you ask...
Gift Cards: a path to Bitcoin adoption
Gift cards have long been a way to increase spending and provide value for consumers and stores...
Introducing Tiered Pricing
Prior to today, our fee was 1% regardless of the size of the transaction. That meant that...
5 Big Brands that accept Bitcoin
Bitcoin is one of the leading methods of accepting payment online. Earlier this year, Bitcoin surpassed PayPal...
Product Update (11/5/19): Payment Templates
Today, we’re updating the OpenNode dashboard application. This update has a clear emphasis on revamping our custom...
On Bitcoin’s 11th birthday, OpenNode turns 1
Eleven years ago today, Satoshi Nakamoto published a proposal for the Bitcoin software protocol. One year ago,...
Bitcoin Fixes This: Data Breaches and Fraud
Online credit card transactions helped spawn the era of e-commerce. Once consumers felt comfortable paying for things...
Product Update (10/3/19): Improved Checkout
At OpenNode, we firmly put the customer and user experience first. You all have provided excellent feedback...
Important takeaways from Crypto Springs
If you don’t like the heat, please stay far away from the Crypto Springs conference. But if...
Spotlight: Making the jump to Bitcoin with Head of Growth, Julie Landrum
We’re excited to announce that Julie Landrum has joined the OpenNode team as Head of Growth. Julie...
Understanding bitcoin’s price volatility
Bitcoin is an obsession to a growing population. While the merits of Bitcoin’s game changing technology are...
What to consider when accepting Altcoins
We’re living in the era of digital money. There are now over a thousand cryptocurrencies in circulation,...
Automatic Bitcoin Conversions
Adding bitcoin as an accepted payment method to your business is a great way to drive new...
How was Bitcoin created?
Bitcoin was a response to the financial crisis of 2008 In October 2008, the world experienced a...
What is a Blockchain?
Bitcoin was the first example of what the world now knows as the blockchain. While blockchain, cryptocurrency,...
How to accept Bitcoin: Shopify Bitcoin extension
We've developed an extension so that all Shopify merchants can enjoy our latest service with a simple,...
What is Bitcoin? Here’s what you need to know
Bitcoin (n): Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, which can be defined as decentralized digital money. There are many...
The OpenNode API: The most powerful in Bitcoin
We built OpenNode from the ground up with developers in mind. We build a robust, yet simple...
The 3 best ways to get Bitcoin
There are many avenues that you can take to get Bitcoin. Each option has its own merits...
Bitcoin Wallets 101: How to choose a Bitcoin wallet
If you've bought some Bitcoin or you accept it at your business, it’s important for you to...
How to accept Bitcoin: OpenCart Bitcoin extension
We've developed an extension so that all OpenCart merchants can enjoy our latest services with a simple,...
How to accept Bitcoin: PrestaShop extension
We’ve developed an extension so that all PrestaShop merchants can enjoy instant Bitcoin payments with a simple, easy-to-use...
How to accept Bitcoin: WooCommerce Bitcoin plugin
We’ve developed a plugin so that all WooCommerce merchants can enjoy our latest services with a simple, easy-to-use...