Optimal Payments starts accepting bitcoin

Optimal Payments (OPAY), one of the top global providers of payment processing services, has recently announced that it is now accepting bitcoin as a payment method. It has entered into an agreement with BitPay Inc to make the service available.

The company said that it has incorporated the digital currency to its list of available payment options to provide its customers with additional payment option.

Its e-wallet and online global payment processing arm NETELLER has now enabled the bitcoin payment option which the customers can use for their real money online payment transactions. The payment method requires exchanging a customer's bitcoin currency into any of NETELLER's several currency offerings.

The NETELLER website says that the bitcoin facility for online gambling accounts is available in all countries barring the US.