Mintspare: Turning Electronics into Digital Cash
Mintspare has considerably simplified the means of acquiring bitcoins by enabling users to trade in their old, even broken electronics for cold hard crypto. Mintspare will take your old MacBook, iPod, smartphone, tablet and even your old camera and lenses and turn it into bitcoins. Also, if you have any electronics you think they might take, try it, because they do take special requests. Mintspare came into fruition to solve a well-known issue: the numerous processes necessary to take in order to acquire Bitcoin: linking your bank account, giving up information you want to protect, etc.....
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Consumers can now receive bitcoin when they trade in old electronics through a new startup called Mintspare. Galfry Puechavy, Mintspare's CEO, told CoinDesk that the company's goal is to be a simple way to get started with bitcoin: "It's just allows people to get in very, very easily. I personally haven't seen a simpler way to acquire bitcoins," said Puechavy. How it works. Mintspare has its own bitcoin wallet that it provides to customers when an account is created. Users choose a device that they want to trade in, select the model and then evaluate its condition. Mintspare then generates....
CeX, an online marketplace for buying and selling technology and entertainment products, is now paying bitcoin for used goods on the UK version of its site. UK-based users are now able to sell products on the website for bitcoin as an option in CeX's shopping cart. The cart informs users that they will receive the BTC equivalent fair value at the time a good is sold: "Your actual bitcoin payout will be determined at the time of payment processing, after we have received and tested your goods." Selling items for bitcoin. The decision for CeX to take bitcoin for used goods follows a recent....
The future of electronics cooling is a topic plaguing many technology and Bitcoin enthusiasts alike. With the mounting electricity costs, air cooling is no longer a viable option if you are deploying electronics en masse. And water cooling is a possible solution, but far from practical. But there is a good news, as researchers have cracked the code on how to use graphene-based film for electronics cooling. Over the years, scientists and engineers have been working hard to unlock the mystery of how to use graphene)based solutions to cool electronics. Researchers at the Chalmers University....
The well known electronics giant Samsung, the manufacturer of LCD and LED panels, laptops, mobile phones, memory chips, and televisions, revealed that the firm’s upcoming smart TVs will incorporate non-fungible token (NFT) technology.
Samsung Reveals Smart TV With NFT Capabilities
One of the largest electronics manufacturers worldwide, Samsung Electronics, has noticed how popular NFTs are today and the company believes there’s something needed to view these digital artworks. The U.S. Samsung Newsroom published a summary of the company’s latest lineup of....
The topic of creating a cashless society has been kicked around a few times in recent years, but the major mind shift has not happened just yet. Some industry experts are even wondering whether or not a cashless ecosystem is realistic or not. With so many electronics payments – and digital currencies such as Bitcoin – at the consumer’s disposal, it seems to be a matter of time. There is no denying consumers are slowly gravitating to a world in which cash transactions are becoming less frequent. Even though there is a personal aspect to cash transactions around the world, a lot of consumers....