Baidu started accepting Bitcoin to pay for one of its services.

Yes, the popularity of Bitcoin cryptocurrency continues to grow, which, in particular, can be seen on the course - at the moment the rate broke the five-month record. Now for one unit of cryptocurrency give more than $ 150. According to representatives of the Bitcoin Foundation, one of the incentives for the growth of the cryptocurrency rate could be the news of the closure of Silk Road, due to which the cryptocurrency has ceased to be associated with the drug trade.


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Anyway, on October 14, the largest Internet company in China, Baidu, announced the start of accepting Bitcoin as a payment for the Baidu Jiasule service.

This service is an analogue of CloudFlare, which provides anti-DDOS services to its customers. Here is the press release , however, in Chinese. The translation, obtained with the help of Google Translate, says that the company began to accept cryptocurrency, because it wants to give its customers advanced options for payment methods. In addition, Baidu calls Baidu Jiasule the first cloud service that began to accept payments in cryptocurrency.

For the latter, all this may mean gradual popularization in China (which is already happening), as well as other countries. John Matonis, executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, has already announced that support for the cryptocurrency company, which is listed in the NASDAQ, could be another incentive for the development of Bitcoin.

Since the news came to Baidu’s wallet , only about 0.211BTC has been listed. As if this is a miser for a company with a capitalization of 54 billion dollars. But this is only the beginning, let's see what happens next.

Via coindesk