Bitcoin in business: Buyer's Best Friend
Adam Sah. We talk with Adam Sah, founder and CEO of Buyer's Best Friend and former Google employee. Buyer's Best Friend (BBF) is a retailer of artisanal food, high-end chocolates and gifts, sweet and healthy snacks. Since Sah founded the company in 2010, BBF has established three groceries in San Francisco: in the Ferry Building, North Beach and Haight-Ashbury. All three locations accept bitcoins, offer bitcoins in exchange for cash, and offer cash for bitcoins. CoinDesk: We understand you are accepting bitcoin as a payment method. What are your other current payment methods? Are you open....
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The holidays are fast approaching. Still not sorted your Christmas shopping? Don't fear, we've gathered together 10 of the best bitcoin-friendly gifts for the season of giving. If you do own some cryptocurrency, why not spread the love around and buy your gifts in bitcoin this year? 10. Caramel sauce from Buyer's Best Friend. Hot Cake's vanilla and butter caramel sauce. Source: Buyer's Best Friend. Artisan food and crafts are the focus of the Buyer's Best Friend online store, which offers some truly unique gift ideas. For shoppers looking to spread a little bitcoin love for a low price....
Friend.tech, a decentralized social media platform built on the Base, the Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution backed by Coinbase, generates more fees, and thus, revenue than Bitcoin. This transactional platform allows users to move value. According to Token Terminal data on Oct. 6, Friend.tech generated $28.6 million in fees, above Bitcoin’s $26.8 million. This spike is […]
A real estate buyer in California profited nearly $1.3 mln after purchasing $4 mln worth of Bitcoin with an intent to purchase a house in California. Earlier this month, BitPay chief commercial officer (CCO) Sonny Singh was approached by a real estate buyer based in California who wished to purchase a $4 mln house solely using Bitcoin. Singh and the BitPay team, which provides a wide range of Bitcoin services assisted the buyer and the real estate developer in coming to terms with the final settlement. At last, a $4 mln price tag was agreed upon to be fully paid in Bitcoin. The buyer went....
ShapeShift.io, the much buzzed about cryptocurrency-to-cryptocurrency exchange founded by early Bitcoin adopter Erik Vorhees, has released an app into the Apple's app store. The ShapeShift app will allow users to seamlessly transact in multiple cryptocurrencies. In a phone interview with CCN, Vorhees said that a simple use case might be someone that wants to pay a debt to a friend with Dogecoin, but that friend doesn't want to use Dogecoin, they want some other coin, most likely Bitcoin. The friend can use the ShapeShfit app to transmit the Dogecoin into Bitcoin, and then pay the friend in....
In this day and age where online commerce is playing an increasingly important role, one of the key topics of discussion is buyer protection. As consumers are entrusting their information to third parties, who not only have access to their location but also sensitive information such as ID scans and whatnot, which protects the customer if something goes....