The internet services company will begin accepting the new payment method first on Rakuten.com in the US, to be followed by Rakuten.de in Germany and Rakuten.at in Austria.
Bitnet provides a digital commerce platform enabling enterprise-scale merchants to accept bitcoin payments.
In February 2015, Rakuten has revealed plans to start accepting Bitcoin as payment.
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