Opera Is Likely To Have A Bitcoin Integration Soon

Rumors have it that a preeminent web browser called Opera might render support for bitcoin micropayments as part of its new adblock-integrated browser at some point in future. Although, no official announcements have been made just yet but lately the Opera team has received so many messages from the users requesting for the bitcoin integration. The famous browser has recently released its latest adblock version which has been highly appreciated by the masses. Over the last couple of years, Opera saw a drastic decline in its user base owing to the intensified competition. But with the new built-in adblock feature, Opera has made an impressive comeback.

Opera Adblock Browser

The latest Adblock version of the Opera browser automatically blocks all sorts of online ads and pop-ups and provides a seamless browsing experience to the users. This in turn boosts up the browsing speed that was otherwise affected by ads and pop-ups. The loading time of the web pages has also been reduced up to a great extent. The Opera team claims, “while using their Opera Adblocker, the web pages will load about 90% faster than the other browsers.” This new browser also provides protection from the adwares, malwares and other potential threats without the need of installing add-ons and web extensions.

In order to block ads, you just need to turn on the adblock feature by going into browser settings. Once you have done that, you won’t see ads on any website while browsing as long as the adblock feature is on. Besides, the browser gives you an option to customize the list of websites you want to see the ads on. You can unblock the ads to appear on some selected websites that might be of certain importance to you. So, it’s totally up to you to decide where you want to see the ads and where you don’t want to.

Another Browser, “Brave” Offers Similar Features

It might just be a coincidence or you might call it an aftereffect of Opera Adblocker, a new browser called Brave is now offering similar ad blocking features as offered by the Opera. The only difference is that Brave also renders support for the bitcoin micropayments which makes it an Ad Free Bitcoin Enabled Browser. Being quite new to the market, Brave is currently less popular among the masses but you can’t deny the fact that it’s the first and the only bitcoin enabled ad-free browser at the time.

Perhaps, Brave might not be that much popular right now but it has built a massive user base in bitcoin communities all over the world owing to the bitcoin integration that comes along. Apart from the bitcoin integration, Brave offers the similar ad blocking functionality as offered by the Opera Adblock Browser.

Also read BRAVE Partners With Coinbase For Bitcoin Micropayments.

BitHappy, The Bitcoin Browser

Then comes the name of a not so successful bitcoin browser called BitHappy that was launched several months ago. BitHappy is actually a mobile app that lets you browse through the list of all the bitcoin accepting merchants nearby you. It was meant to connect bitcoin buyers and sellers by giving them a platform to make easy online bitcoin purchases. Using BitHappy, you can find out how many merchants nearby you are accepting bitcoins. You can also make direct bitcoin payments to the merchants for the doorstep delivery of products. But despite of a huge publicity, BitHappy couldn’t entice the audiences. The app that was released several months ago has less than 500 downloads on the Google Playstore as of now.

Also read BitHappy The First Ever Bitcoin Browser.

The Bottom Line

Coming back to Opera, there is a sharp possibility that the former might consider bitcoin integration seeing the phenomenal success of Brave browser in such a short span of time. Perhaps, it would be a little too early to make any further predictions for the future. Till then, all we can do is wait for the Opera team to make the announcement.