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- According to an official press release, American remittance company MoneyGram International has sealed a new partnership with Bitcoin Kiosk Operator Coinme.
- The partnership would allow customers to conveniently buy and sell Bitcoin for cash at Coinme locations across the US.
MoneyGram Partners with Coinme
Through this collaboration, customers would be able to make cash purchases and sales of Bitcoin at 12,000 different locations owned by Coinme in the US. The deal would utilize MoneyGram's modern, mobile, and API-driven payments platform and Coinme's vast network of cryptocurrency kiosks in the American nation. This initiative is specially designed for customers interested in utilizing Bitcoin for the first time. This new partnership with MoneyGram would fulfill two needs. It would further expand Coinme's network of making BTC accessible to all and further increase Bitcoin adoption in the U.S. The money transfer company plans to expand further access to Bitcoin in the US and select international markets in the second half of 2021. MoneyGram Chairman and CEO, Alex Holmes said,"This innovative partnership opens our business to an entirely new customer segment as we are the first to pioneer a crypto-to-cash model by building a bridge with Coinme to connect bitcoin to local fiat currency."Founded in 2014, Coinme is the first state-licensed Bitcoin ATM company in the US. It handles millions of dollars in transactions each month through its cash-for-bitcoin swaps at around 6,000 supermarket kiosks across the country. Coinme further grew its network when it collaborated with coin-cashing machine operator Coinstar. The collaboration saw Coinme bring its Bitcoin trading services to about 20,000 Coinstar physical locations.