{"id":41013,"date":"2021-04-19T20:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=41013"},"modified":"2025-08-30T16:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:50:05","slug":"time-begins-accepting-cryptocurrency-for-subscription-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/time-begins-accepting-cryptocurrency-for-subscription-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME begins accepting cryptocurrency for subscription payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American magazine TIME has begun accepting digital assets as a method of paying for subscriptions, in partnership with the Crypto.com payments platform.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TIME Partners with <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eeEpcBEOyb\">https:\/\/t.co\/eeEpcBEOyb<\/a> to Offer Cryptocurrency as a Form of Payment <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7c2MGbOrGj\">https:\/\/t.co\/7c2MGbOrGj<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jC2WHLdUMG\">pic.twitter.com\/jC2WHLdUMG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #TeamTIME (@TeamTime) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamTime\/status\/1384100519833006089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>TIME&#8217;s 18-month digital subscription costs $49. Readers paying with Crypto.com tokens will receive up to 10% cashback.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the feature is available only to residents of the United States and Canada. In July 2021, the company will open payments to users from other countries.<\/p>\n<p>In March TIME <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/time-magazine-sells-three-nft-covers-for-241-eth\">sold three of its own covers<\/a> in the form of non-fungible tokens for 241 ETH (around $529,000 at the rate at the time of writing).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in April, the magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/grayscale-to-pay-time-in-bitcoin-for-a-series-of-videos-about-the-crypto-industry\">announced a series of videos about the Bitcoin industry<\/a>, for which the asset manager Grayscale will pay in digital gold.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American magazine TIME has begun accepting digital assets as a way to pay for subscriptions, in partnership with the Crypto.com payments platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1452,1610],"class_list":["post-41013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crypto-com","tag-time"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41015,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41013\/revisions\/41015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}