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Merchant Highlights: GoldCoast Tickets, Tinypass, and Ecodirect

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, July 3, 2014

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GoldCoast Tickets, Chicago’s largest secondary ticket broker, is now accepting bitcoin for tickets to sports events, concerts, theaters, and more using Coinbase’s platform. The company is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and to recognize this milestone, they are offering discounted Jay-Z/Beyonce On the Run Tour tickets to customers that pay in bitcoin. GoldCoast ran an advertisement for tickets to the July 24th concert at Chicago’s Soldier Field in the Chicago Sun-Times today. The first 24 people to buy tickets using bitcoin will receive 25% off.

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Tinypass, a company that helps online publishers make money by selling their content online, has integrated with Coinbase to enable publishers to easily accept bitcoin. Bitcoin enables convenient micropayments for consumers and cheap micropayments for publishers, which makes it an ideal platform for innovation in the online publishing industry. We are excited that Tinypass publishers can now easily use bitcoin.

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Ecodirect, a reseller of solar panels and other energy efficient products, is now accepting bitcoin for all of its solar equipment. Ecodirect sells to customers in the Caribbean, South America, and Africa, and was attracted to the borderless nature of bitcoin transactions. Prior to accepting bitcoin, the company could only accept wire transfers from international customers, which incurred a fee for customers of $15-$30. Coinbase allows Ecodirect to accept payments from anywhere in the world instantly for a nominal 1% fee.

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