Exclusive Interview With Dolf Diederichsen, Coinay CEO
Last week, Coinay announced that Spanish Bitcoin enthusiasts can use its vouchers to buy Bitcoin in their neighborhoods. Bitcoinist, followed the story further and interviewed Dolf Diederichsen, CEO & co-founder of Coinay, to learn about this Bitcoin voucher solution. Tell us more about “Buy Bitcoin in neighborhood”? Dolf Diederichsen: Coinay enables consumers in Spain to walk into a nearby shop (for example, a computer store) and purchase a Coinay Bitcoin voucher with cash. They can then go online to coinay.com and redeem the voucher, and get Bitcoins to their wallet. As we have partnered....
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People who live in Spain will now have a new option to buy bitcoins locally, with ease. A service called Coinay has been launched in 3,000 Spanish stores allowing people to go and spend cash for bitcoins, without all the fuss. In essence, the buyer purchases a voucher and then redeems the voucher for bitcoins. As with any product, consumers will still need a reason to buy it. Consumers buy other vouchers because they have a need of them, such as a Facebook credit voucher or a prepaid debit card. "With Coinay, we can enable customers to buy easily bitcoins in retail locations all over....
Today, we have a very special interview to share with our viewers, exclusive to Bitcoinist. An interview regarding UROSE and that hopefully answers some questions you’ve been having or issues regarding attendance to the event in Hong Kong. The event is being funded by the Nation Import/Export Representative members, but emerged as an idea by the URO foundation. For those unaware of what URO is, here is an interview hosted by bitcoinist regarding the coin itself as this interview mainly focuses on the event that will take place in Hong Kong. Without further a due, the interview: A: The URO....