$MELY - 56,000+ Merchants Can Now Accept Bitcoin Bitcoin is here to stay! Too many deep pockets involved! Some Bitcoin info. AML-Compliant Bitcoin Payments Coming to 56,000+ Merchants Globally Payment21 and ACI Worldwide announced on Wednesday a strategic collaboration to enable payment service providers (PSPs) to offer merchants anti-money laundering (AML)-compliant bitcoin acceptance. ACI’s network of more than 130 PSPs, serving more than 56,000 merchants, can now accept bitcoin payments. AML-Compliant Bitcoin Transactions This approach [AML-compliant] makes Bitcoin a viable solution for publicly-traded companies, licensed gaming enterprises, concessionary wireless network providers and authorized investment funds. Headquartered in Florida, ACI Worldwide is a payment systems company which processes electronic payments for more than 5,100 organizations globally, including over 1,000 of the largest financial institutions and intermediaries, the company claims. Thousands of global merchants rely on ACI to execute $14 trillion each day in payments and securities.