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title: Introducing cryptopayments for our services
author: Mariana Balla
link: https://twitter.com/marianaballa1
date: 2018-03-31 12:00:00 +0200
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- images/@stock/CryptoCurrencyThumb.jpg
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- cryptopayments
- crypto
- bitcoin
- ethereum
- litecoin
- design
- opensourcedesign

excerpt:
 Every day we try to understand the needs of our partners by taking their feedback seriously. During this process we have noticed that some of our partners prefer to use Paypal and others bank transactions, which has been for many years the standard process of payments for services similar to what we offer.[…]
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We aim to iterate our processes continously based on the feedback and experiences we have with projects we are lucky to work with. With this in mind, we noticed that some of our partners prefer to use Paypal and others bank transactions, which has been for many years the standard process of payments for services similar to what we offer. As a design studio which highly values decentralized platforms, we have been positively surprised to see growing demand for payment integration of different **cryptocurrencies**. This is the reason that starting from today, we accept payments with some of the most established cryptocurrencies at the moment such as **Bitcoin**, **Ethereum** and **Litecoin**. If none of the above works for you, [let us know](mailto:hello@ura.design) and our team will be happy to find an alternative.

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In case you have missed the crypto hype: cryptocurrencies are a type of digital currencies, alternative currencies and virtual currencies. Cryptocurrencies use decentralized control as opposed to centralized electronic money and central banking systems. The decentralized control of each cryptocurrency works through a blockchain, which is a public transaction database, functioning as a distributed ledger. Bitcoin, created in 2009, was the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Since then, numerous other cryptocurrencies have been created. These are frequently called altcoins, as a blend of alternative coin.
Interested in learning more? This 20+ minute long [John Oliver episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6iDZspbRMg) explains in more detail and admittedly in a fund way how Blockchain and cryptocurrencies work. No worries, we are not building anything on the blockchain as of now. In the past we have been involved in crypto things, namely GPG Workshops and Cryptoparties as well, so we are well aware of the definition.

Since you are here: if you would like to financially support [Identihub](https://identihub.co/), our open source assets hostings software, you can always pledge us on [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/ura). The project itself is bootstrapped by the Ura team and other volunteers and no investors are involved, so we rely on your donations.
As you might know, a part of the project is funded by generous pledges on our Patreon. If you however prefer to do one-time crypto donations, you can do so by sending to these addresses: 

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**Bitcoin address:** 3D7RowFVFWcfNABV4BwQ8bfZhTbhAh2gL1<br />
**Ethereum address:** 0x08c7eC3Ad8A58287c45cc776A72AA1401123710c<br />
**Litecoin address:** MEm4dyJv7nqPw3p32CQKP3QdnwLtskUC5K