{"id":20056,"date":"2019-05-24T00:47:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T00:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe80c00826c3"},"modified":"2019-05-24T00:47:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T00:47:14","slug":"t-now-accepts-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/t-now-accepts-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T Now Accepts Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/att-now-accepts-bitcoin.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>AT&amp;T customers can now use bitcoin to settle their bills online.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/about.att.com\/story\/2019\/att_bitpay.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a> from the Dallas-based mobile carrier, customers who want to use cryptocurrency to pay their bills can do so by selecting BitPay as a payment option on the myAT&amp;T app or when they log in to their account. BitPay is a popular crypto payment service that helps businesses accept cryptocurrencies for payments online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s exciting for BitPay to support AT&amp;T as it moves to accept bitcoin as a payment option,\u201d Sonny Singh, BitPays chief commercial officer, told <em>Bitcoin Magazine<\/em>. \u201cBitcoin lets customers pay from anywhere in the world quickly and easily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For AT&amp;T\u2019s part, adding BitPay as a payment option gives its customers more flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re always looking for ways to improve and expand our services,\u201d said Kevin McDorman, vice president of AT&amp;T\u2019s Communications Finance Business Operations, per the release. \u201cWe have customers who use cryptocurrency, and we are happy we can offer them a way to pay their bills with the method they prefer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&#038;T customers can now use bitcoin to settle their bills online thanks to a partnership with BitPay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3435,"featured_media":20057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3342,2043,783],"class_list":{"0":"post-20056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-att","9":"tag-bills","10":"tag-bitpay"},"author_data":{"id":3435,"name":"Jimmy Aki","nicename":"jimmy-aki","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/jimmy-aki-promo-image-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/att-now-accepts-bitcoin.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}