Brawker.com review

Brawker.com review

Brawker, a proxy buying platform, recently launched with a trendy post that made it to the top of the Bitcoin subreddit. For the first time bitcoin users have the chance to buy anything on the web with their bitcoins. Brawker helps bitcoin users by letting them spend their bitcoins on virtually anything, giving them an 8% discount and making bitcoin more widely used. On the other end, Brawker also allows people to buy bitcoins with a credit card or Paypal, by buying the items for the bitcoin users. This easy way to buy bitcoins was almost impossible to do until now. So, how is this....


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