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Dash announces partnerships with GoCoin, Strike Social and Piiko

Leading cryptocurrency Dash has announced three major business partnerships in its efforts to expand its reach.

Dash has partnered with GoCoin, an e-commerce digital currency payments processor; Strike Social, a leading social media advertising optimization firm; and Piiko, a cryptocurrency-powered prepaid phone company.

We are honored to be working with these three great companies, each with their own increasingly important use case,” CEO of Dash Core Ryan Taylor said.

The integration of Dash on GoCoin’s platform will allow people to use Dash to pay products and services on popular mainstream websites like Cheapair.com, RE/MAX.com, Movietickets.com and Lionsgate.com. Taylor said that this partnership would help in spreading merchant adoption of Dash.

“We are working with Dash because we have a high degree of confidence in the Dash team and are fans of the mining reward formula to support not just the miners, but also the healthy ecosystem of service providers. We look at Dash as one of the best and upcoming transactional coins. We have processed over five million transactions with 500 merchants, and we are excited to announce that people can now buy flights, movie tickets and houses, amongst many other products and services, using Dash,” GoGoin CEO Margot Ritcher said.

Dash’s partnership with Chicago-based Strike Social is expected to enhance the reach of Dash as an alternative form of payment, particularly for big brands during social media advertising campaigns. Strike Social supports clients like XBox, Coca-Cola, and Netflix, and is 17th on Inc. 500’s fastest growing private companies in the United States.

“It’s hard to express how labor intensive, painstaking and expensive it is for companies to operate across borders in fiat currencies. The cost to manage a global operation in your own accounting and finance departments is tough, and in most cases, you have to hire local tax specialists in each country to help you stay in compliance with laws to keep banking. Adding Dash as a payment gets us the rest of the world, and with their negligible transaction fees, it’s a homerun for us and our customers,” Patrick McKenna, Strike Social’s Chairman and co-founder said. “We’ll take the whole thing in Dash if we have to.”

Piiko, based in Dubai, will now enable Dash top-ups to people using prepaid mobile phones. Piiko works with over 600 mobile operators across 137 countries. This partnership would make it easier for people to pay for their mobile phone without requiring fiat, bank accounts or credit cards, particularly valuable for people living in struggling economies. Dash’s integration, using BlockCypher’s infrastructure, will provide people around the world a faster and more secure alternative to pay for their mobile phones.

“Top-ups through Piiko bypass the typical 3-5% fees that are charged to the consumer when using similar services powered by credit cards. Best of all, Piiko is safe, reliable, and the users needn’t risk identity theft like they would when using a credit card. We are very excited to integrate Dash as a form of payment for our growing number of customers,” Piiko founder Sergey Yusupov said.

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