Bitcoin payments are getting a contactless upgrade.

Numo has launched a new tap-to-pay point-of-sale app that enables merchants to accept bitcoin with an experience similar to Apple Pay and Google Pay — all without requiring additional hardware. The free, open-source Android app is now available as a direct APK download, with a release on the Google Play Store expected soon.

Built on Cashu, an open-source ecash protocol for Bitcoin, Numo uses NFC functionality already present in most Android devices. 

During checkout, a customer’s Cashu wallet reads an NFC tag emulated by the merchant’s phone and writes back a payment token. The entire interaction takes just a few…

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