A Toronto-based bitcoin wallet platform, Coinkite launched new e-commerce Bitcoin Payment buttons that allow accepting bitcoin payments for goods and services.

This “Buy button” can be easily embedded on a merchant’s platform using a plain html link. The buyers are free to pay with any bitcoin wallet or with their Coinkite accounts.

Coinkite provides users with a high degree of privacy because it doesn’t require Javascript or cookies. All button features work over the anonymous Tor network. Meanwhile merchants still have the option to collect extra user’s data such as refund addresses, emails and shipping information.

Prices can be shown both in bitcoin and in a local currency.

Coinkite also ensures privacy of donations by customising the charity page with Nym avatar. The donors do not have to publicly demonstrate the sum of their charitable contribution while charities are not required to show the received.

“Our goal was to create something empowering, like Craigslist. They get privacy, and always have. Now anyone can collect a few bitcoins online in exchange for goods or services using Coinkite,” Coinkite CTO Peter Gray said in a press-release.

The company allows its clients to pay with alternative cryptocurrencies, such as Litecoin and Dogecoin, and provides instant altcoin conversion using Shapeshift.io.

Coinkite is a well-known bitcoin wallet and software provider, founded in 2013. Coinkite’s bitcoin wallet is based on the multi-signature technology and is additionally safeguarded by a hardware security module. The company provides a so called “onion address”, allowing users to access their bitcoin wallets directly over the Tor network.

Daria Petushkova