Bitcoin Kiez Rollout: 3 New BTC-Accepting Stores and Restaurants in Berlin, More to Come
While the rest of the Bitcoin community was celebrating Bitcoin Friday by taking advantage of the large discounts made available by their favorite Bitcoin shops, Joerg Platzer of Room 77, a restaurant that has become the epicenter of the Bitcoin community in Berlin, used the date to announce Bitcoin Kiez, a project to get a large number of businesses to....
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Over the past two years, Berlin has gained a reputation as one of the Bitcoin capitals of the world. Around the city, there are nearly two dozen restaurants and shops accepting the currency, including six concentrated in a single block. Room77, the restaurant that started it all, holds Bitcoin meetups on the first Thursday of every month, and dozens of people attend. The most recent meetup on August 1 saw unusually high attendance, with a number of prominent Bitcoin activists from Europe and around the world attending; stateless political activist Mike Gogulski, Defense Disributed's Cody....
The international business school ESMT Berlin has just announced it will be accepting bitcoin for tuition and degree certification. The school will be the first German University to accept cryptocurrency as payment. ESMT Berlin Accepting Bitcoin a ‘Logical Consequence of Digitalization’. ESMT Berlin is a leading business school in Germany that offers MBA....
The concept of having your very own Bitcoin Boulevard is such a powerful tool in order to drive bitcoin adoption to new heights. We have seen multiple success stories in The Hague, Cleveland and Amsterdam. The first German Bitcoin Boulevard is coming to the city of Hannover, capital of Lower Saxony. Hannover’s Bitcoin Boulevard is not the first attempt to push Bitcoin adoption in a big German City. Berlin has its very own In Bitcoinkiez (bitcoin neighborhood), with roughly 20 locations accepting bitcoin as a payment method. Berliners can spend their precious cryptocurrency at all sorts of....