Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing,

blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello and welcome to Future Tech podcast. I'm your host, Juliet Lamar. We have with us today,

Samar Bandali. He is the director of strategic partnerships at Coin Coin Payments IMC. Welcome to Mar.

Thanks, Julia.

So why don't you go ahead and start us off with a little overview about coin payments?

For sure. So coin payments started out about five years ago in 2013 as the first

multi-currency digital platform allowing for payment processing

for cryptocurrency.

Coin payments started out in the market when Bitcoin had kind of a total monopoly over

all things cryptocurrency, and the founding team decided to create a platform that would

support altcoins and some of the other digital currencies in the market.

So coin payments was born as a way to facilitate transactions for merchants to be able to accept all of these cryptocurrencies as a method of payment for their goods and services.

We started out with about four or five currencies back in 2013,

and today, five years later,

boast over 550 different digital currency supported on one platform.

So this allows users to log in with one set of login credentials

and access a multi-currency wallet online on the web that has individual wallets

for each of these 550 currencies and also allows merchants to interact with our pre-made

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