Getting Started
October 27, 2026
Crypto-Friendly Business Bank Accounts: What to Look For Before You Settle to Fiat
Most crypto sales end up in fiat, so the bank account at the end of the chain matters. What crypto-friendly means for a merchant, bank or e-money institution, and eight questions to ask before you open the account.
Getting Started
October 26, 2026
Your Bank Is Asking About Payments From a Crypto Provider. Here Is What to Send
Your bank has noticed transfers from a crypto payment provider and wants documents. Why banks ask, the five questions they usually come down to, and where to find each answer in your CoinGate account.
Crypto Payments
October 21, 2026
Alternative Payment Methods: 9 Worth Offering International Customers
Cards do not reach every customer. Nine alternative payment methods, grouped by the problem each one fixes when you sell internationally, and an honest look at where crypto fits.
Company Updates
October 20, 2026
Bitcoin Cash Is Back at CoinGate Checkout
Since 12 October 2026 your customers can pay with Bitcoin Cash at CoinGate checkout again, and BCH is back for settlement and crypto payouts. Here is what changed.
Educational
October 19, 2026
Crypto Wallets for Business: Custodial, MPC, Multisig or Hardware?
A personal wallet was never built for a team, an accountant or a second approver. The four ways a business can hold crypto, what each one gives you, and where each one falls short.
Getting Started
October 14, 2026
Is CoinGate Legit? How to Check Us Yourself
Is CoinGate legit? Check our MiCA authorisation on the EU register yourself, see who receives your money when you pay a CoinGate invoice, and learn how to spot sites pretending to be us.
Tutorials
October 13, 2026
The Crypto Payments FAQ Your Customers Need (Copy It)
A ready-made crypto payments FAQ to paste onto your checkout or help page. Short, plain answers on accounts, timing, wrong amounts, wrong coins, refunds and safety, with placeholders for your store's details.
Crypto Payments
October 12, 2026
Looking for a Crypto Payment Gateway Without KYC? Read This First
A gateway that skips KYC saves you an afternoon of paperwork. Here is what it costs later, why licensed providers have to check your business, and how fast onboarding at CoinGate has become.
Data reports
October 8, 2026
Bitcoin Stopped Waiting for a Block and Solana Lost Its Memo. What Both Changes Did
Two changes this summer made the slowest corners of our checkout faster. Bitcoin payments up to 100 EUR now take a median of under four minutes, and Solana completes as often as Litecoin. Here is the data.
Crypto Payments
October 7, 2026
Address Poisoning: How a Lookalike Address Steals a Crypto Payout
Address poisoning does not hack anything. It plants a lookalike address in your transaction history and waits for you to copy it. How it works, why businesses make better targets, and the controls that stop it.
Getting Started
October 5, 2026
Sent the Wrong Coin to a Crypto Invoice? Here Is How to Get It Back
You paid the invoice in the wrong coin, or on the wrong network, and nothing happened. The payment is not lost. Here is how to find it on the invoice page and start the refund yourself.
Data reports
September 30, 2026
Where Crypto Payments Come From: The 2026 Country Map
Where our 1.6 million paid crypto orders came from in the year to August 2026, what each market pays with, and how basket sizes compare.
Educational
September 29, 2026
A Crypto Refund Now Takes About an Hour. The Days Come Before It
Your customer wants their money back. Once you create the refund it now takes about an hour. The days they wait mostly come before that.
Data reports
September 28, 2026
Your Shopper Picked Litecoin and Paid. They Picked Dogecoin and Vanished
Across nearly 2.5 million crypto checkouts, completion after the shopper picks a coin runs from 77% on Litecoin to 48% on Dogecoin, and the gap holds inside the same merchants.
Data reports
September 25, 2026
Crypto Payments Do Not Keep Banking Hours. Here Is the Shape of the Day
Across 1.6 million paid orders, 68% landed outside business hours and nearly a quarter at the weekend. The hour-by-hour and day-by-day shape, in UTC and on the shopper's own clock.
Crypto Payments
September 24, 2026
When the Basket Is Six Euros: Crypto Checkout for Digital Goods and Top-Ups
Most advice about accepting crypto assumes an expensive basket. Ours is not. Here is what a sub-twenty-euro order does to fixed costs, network choice, abandonment and the case for charging per balance instead of per item.
Educational
September 23, 2026
More Than One in Six Crypto Payments Arrives for the Wrong Amount. Here Is What Happens Next
Crypto payments do not bounce and do not charge back. They arrive for the wrong amount, arrive late, or never arrive. Here is how often each happens across 1.6 million paid orders, what happens next, and the settings that actually change the outcome.
Crypto Payments
September 22, 2026
How IT Service Providers and Software Resellers Take Crypto Payments
IT services and computer hardware are 27.4% of every paid order we settle. Here is what crypto payments solve for MSPs, licence resellers and hardware distributors, where they sit in a billing stack built on WHMCS or an API, what settlement actually means, and the three things they do not fix.
Data reports
September 17, 2026
How Long a Crypto Payment Actually Takes, Measured Across 1.48 Million Orders
Block times are not what a merchant feels. We timed 1.48 million paid orders across fourteen networks, split into the time a shopper takes to choose and the time the network takes to confirm. Lightning lands in 46 seconds and Bitcoin in 14 minutes 16 across the year, with an update on what has changed for Bitcoin and Solana since.
Crypto Payments
September 15, 2026
How Agencies Invoice International Clients in Crypto
One international invoice, start to finish: how you quote it, how the client pays it, what reaches your account, what belongs in the contract, and what your accountant will ask for.
Crypto Payments
September 9, 2026
Why Communications Platforms Take Crypto for Prepaid Balances
Prepaid top-ups are small, frequent and urgent, and they fail on cards for reasons that have nothing to do with whether the customer has the money. Where crypto fits, what a permanent per-customer address changes, and the one thing it will never do.
Crypto Payments
September 8, 2026
How Prop Firms Pay Out Traders in Crypto
Prop firms compete on payout speed and get reviewed on it. Here is how crypto payouts actually work for a firm paying many small amounts to individuals across borders: CSV and API batches, the roles allowed to send, status tracking, and the compliance screening that decides who can be paid.
Crypto Payments
September 7, 2026
Fiat, Stablecoins or Crypto: How to Choose What You Settle In
Settlement currency decides what you are holding after a customer pays. Leave it alone and the answer is USDC. Here is where the setting actually lives, and when fiat, stablecoins or crypto is the right call.
Crypto Payments
September 2, 2026
Crypto Payment Gateway Fees: What You Actually Pay
This post walks through the five events where crypto payment gateway fees land, gives our published rates, and works through a realistic month so you can copy the arithmetic.
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