Exclusive Interview With Dolf Diederichsen, Coinay CEO

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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