Mobile Gift Card Company to Use Bitcoin Transactions
Gyft, a mobile gift card company, recently announced its plans to offer bitcoin transactions for its gift card providers. This way, they can ensure that their consumers are able to make purchases in a more secure digital way with the cryptocurrency. The company made this announcement during the annual SXSW Conference, during which a conference panel discussed the real-world applications of bitcoin transactions. For now, the product offering is in its research and development stages. Gyft plans on using a technology to give gift tokens which can be transferred between peers and other....
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