The company behind the portfolio multicurrency Coinomi announced this Thursday the 5th of September which enabled the purchases of gift cards from his wallet, a move that will allow its users to purchase gift cards from various online shops like Amazon, eBay, Google Play, Best Buy, Walmart or Home Depot, with cryptocurrencies.Consumers will be able to purchase gift cards without the need to leave the platform of Coinomi. Through a press release, the company reported that the feature is already available and that is the result of a partnership with the startup Bidali, a company focused on processing payments with cryptocurrencies.To make the purchase of the gift cards the user must log in to your account Coinomi, display the main menu and select the option Gift Cards located within the section Buy or ‘Buy’ in Spanish. The company did not specify what is the amount of the fee for processing this type of operations.Despite not disseminate this information and in response to a user on the social network twitter, Bidali said the following: “our rates are dynamic based on exchanges of multiple-integrated with a +, a buffer to take account of the volatility”.The message of the tweeter identified as @989×4000 was related to a purchase using Dash, which at that time was listed at USD 80,77, but the platform indicated that their price for the operation was $ 75,28.
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The functionality is already available, and is the result of a partnership with the startup Bidali.
Image: Coinomi.Purchases of gift cards, or acquisition of products on Amazon, for example, are services that are already providing other companies in the ecosystem of the cryptocurrencies. Among them are Bitrefill, a platform that serves to buy gift cards from various online stores. Another service is that of a Purse.io that allows you to purchase items on Amazon with discount.Founded in 2014, Coinomi is a portfolio that provides support to more than 120 cryptocurrencies and 380 tokens. Is also available sharing within the platform and the services Shapeshift and Changelly.The announcement of the startup occurs six months after a user detects a suspected vulnerability in Coinomi, for Windows environments, which committed the funds of the users. However, the company responded by saying that you don’t negotiate with blackmailers, that yes there was a problem that had been solved and that it has not led to loss of funds. The error was detected following a bad configuration in the snap-in is used for its wallet Windows desktop and not in your source code.