Sling TV to Accept Bitcoin as Payment

• Streaming work supplier Sling TV present accepts bitcoin payments.
• Existing customers tin prepay 1-6 months of work utilizing bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
• New customers indispensable wage for the archetypal period utilizing bequest outgo methods and tin usage bitcoin payments starting successful the 2nd month.

Sling TV, the cord-cutting work supplier that allows its users to watercourse implicit 700 tv channels via its app, announced connected Friday they would judge Bitcoin payments done an integration with BitPay, a pioneer of planetary cryptocurrency outgo services.

“Accepting crypto payments for this OTT integer level was intelligibly the evident adjacent measurement for our subscribers,” the institution said successful the announcement post.

Sling TV LLC, different known arsenic Sling Media Inc, was purchased successful 2007 by DISH, a institution that made headlines backmost successful 2014 for being the largest institution astatine the clip to judge Bitcoin payments.

At that time, Bernie Han, DISH enforcement VP and COO said, “We ever privation to present prime and convenience for our customers and that includes the method they usage to wage their bills.” Speaking to Bitcoin successful particular, Han said, “Bitcoin is becoming a preferred mode for immoderate radical to transact and we privation to accommodate those individuals.”

BitPay, which provides an optimized outgo travel for implicit 90 antithetic wallets, looks to bring the optionality and prime erstwhile spoken to by Sling’s genitor institution backmost successful 2014. But astatine its existent state, the integration is lone disposable to existing Sling TV customers. New users joining the Sling level volition archetypal request to supply bequest outgo methods to found their relationship and past person the enactment to proceed with bitcoin and different cryptocurrency payments.

Customers volition beryllium capable to prepay betwixt 1 and six months of work utilizing bitcoin. Before the prepaid play ends, the customers volition request to either marque different manual outgo to widen their prepaid period, oregon usage a bequest outgo method to found recurring purchases. If the prepaid play ends without different manual outgo being made, Sling TV volition default to the required bequest outgo method that is required to beryllium placed connected each account.