Brazil's Tecnisa Becomes the Biggest Bitcoin Merchant in Latin America

Brazil's Tecnisa Becomes the Biggest Bitcoin Merchant in Latin America

Brazil-based real estate developer Tecnisa has announced it is now accepting bitcoin, making the company Latin America's largest cryptocurrency-accepting merchant by annual revenue. Figures from the CoinDesk State of Bitcoin Q3 suggest that its revenue figures put Tecnisa among the top 10 largest bitcoin-accepting merchants globally. The publicly traded company boasted net operating revenue of 1.8bn reals in 2013 (approximately $728m). Founded in 1977, Tecnisa has long been at the forefront of integrating new technologies into its platform, becoming one of the country's first merchants to....


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