Starbucks gift cards come to Gyft
Gyft, the app that enables you to “buy, send, and redeem digital gift cards” and pay in bitcoin has now added Starbucks to it’s list of over 200 retailers. Gyft’s story begins at TechCrunch Disrupt SF in 2012 where the company launched with the ambitious goal of becoming “the mobile gift card mall for consumers” and taking the then $100 billion market for plastic gift cards and moving it to the digital realm. Plastic gift cards cause problems for consumers and for merchants. Consumers often forget or lose gift cards and end up not using them. Unused gift cards are a pain for retailers....
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US Bitcoin payment gateway iPayYou has announced direct Starbucks integration for Bitcoin users. Customers using the Starbucks mobile app can now use iPayYou to purchase items directly using Bitcoin with the automated conversion of funds to USD. The tool, dubbed ‘Bitcoin Direct to Starbucks,’ is an extension of the startup’s Black Friday release of Starbucks gift cards for Bitcoin, along with gift cards for other major retailers. CEO: Starbucks integration ‘no-brainer’. IPayYou Founder and CEO Gene Kavner said in a press release: “Integrating with Starbucks was a no-brainer, as the company....
Just this morning, BitPay, Inc announced it's newest merchant, Gyft. Gyft, a mobile gift card platform, added support for Bitcoin purchases of gift cards on the Android platform, through its partnership with BitPay Inc, the world's leading payment processor for Bitcoin. Gyft offers a mobile gift card app to allow customers to buy, store, send, and redeem gift cards on their phones. In addition to a free phone app, customers can share gift cards via Facebook. Gyft works with 50,000 physical retail locations across the USA including GAP, Lowes, Sephora, Gamestop, American Eagle, Sports....
3 weeks ago, I had the pleasure of writing an article I'd dreamed of writing for months and months on end. Gyft Adds Walmart Gift Cards!! Alas, all good things are not meant to last. For the last 3 weeks, Bitcoiners around the country have had the pleasure of buying Walmart gift cards with Bitcoin, receiving 3% back in the form of Gyft points, and in essence spending Bitcoin at Walmart on gas and groceries. Making Bitcoin a cheaper option to buy gas has been a long standing dream of the Bitcoin community, this was the first step towards realizing that dream and said step has now been....
Consumers in the UK can now use their bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to buy gift cards for major online retailers like Amazon, Google Play Store, ASOS and Starbucks. Launched at the end of January, Pock.io has become the first British service to exchange retailer gift cards for digital currencies - with eight different cryptocoins currently accepted. Pock.io CEO and co-founder Rusty Nash said that the driving force behind the launch of this service was to make digital currencies more mainstream in the UK. Pock.io's business model is similar to that of the California-based mobile gift....