All popular bitcoin payment services offer multiple mediums for merchants to accept bitcoin payments. They include solutions for various platforms, like integration with e-commerce platforms like Shopify, PrestaShop, and Magento; for payment through in-store point-of-sale (POS) systems, like Soft Touch and DC POS; and for direct payments from within the popular billing and accounting solutions, like Host Bill and Invoice Ninja.

One can also find solutions for accepting donations in bitcoins through such services, which include integration with donor services like NationBuilder and Targeted Victory. App developers can find ready-made functions and code libraries in Android SDK and iOS SDK, and in programming languages like Java, Perl, and PHP, which enable them t ... Read more »

Bitcoin’s block chain is vital to its function. The block chain is a public, distributed ledger of all prior Bitcoin transactions, which are stored in groups known as blocks. Every node of Bitcoin’s software network – the server farms and terminals, run by individuals or groups known as miners, whose efforts to produce new Bitcoin units result in the recording and authentication of Bitcoin transactions, and the periodic creation of new blocks – contains an identical record of Bitcoin’s block chain.

Because new Bitcoin transactions constantly occur, the Bitcoin block chain, though finite, grows over time. As long as miners continue their work and record recent transactions, the Bitcoin block chain will always be a work in progress. In other words, there’s no predetermined length at which the block chain will ... Read more »