Global payments company Stripe announced that it was going to start allowing crypto payments on Thursday at the company’s Global Internet Economy conference. 

Speaking at the final keynote, titled the Future of Payments, Stripe’s president John Collison,  said, “our history with crypto goes back a long time.” He cited the company’s now-defunct bitcoin support back in 2018 because it wasn’t being used. 

“We’re excited to announce that we’re bringing back crypto as a way to accept payments, but this time with a much better experience,” he announced.

Due to the fact that crypto has more use cases and, as Collison’s presentation said, “crypto’s back,” Stripe…

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