AT&T is the first mobile carrier to accept payment in cryptocurrency. Customers can now use BitPay to pay online bills.
AT&T will now accept online bill payments through BitPay, a respected cryptocurrency payment processor. AT&T becomes the first major U.S. mobile carrier to provide a cryptocurrency payment option to customers.
“We’re always looking for ways to improve and expand our services,” said Kevin McDorman, vice president, AT&T Communications Finance Business Operations. “We have customers who use cryptocurrency, and we are happy we can offer them a way to pay their bills with the method they prefer.”
Customers will be able to select BitPay as a payment option when they log on to their accounts online or with the myAT&T app.
BitPay, Inc. was founded in 2011, while Bitcoin was still in its infancy. They saw the potential for bitcoin to revolutionize the financial industry, making payments faster, more secure, and less expensive on a global scale.
They started BitPay because they wanted to make it easy for businesses to accept bitcoin payments. They are currently the largest bitcoin payment processor in the world, serving industry-leading merchants on six continents. They have created a seamless, secure bitcoin payment experience used daily by hundreds of thousands of bitcoin users.
Payment processing was our first contribution to the Bitcoin ecosystem, but it is not our last. With Bitcore, they’re building an open source platform to power the next applications of Bitcoin. The BitPay secure bitcoin wallet is giving consumers a powerful toolkit for getting started right with bitcoin payments, and the BitPay Card gives bitcoin users a fast way to convert bitcoin into dollars and spend their funds anywhere Visa is accepted.
Bitcoin’s future looks very bright, and they plan on remaining on the forefront of this technology, creating more tools and services for everyone to use in innovative new ways.
