London Clinic Performs Hair Transplants For Bitcoin
A London clinic has completed a hair transplant paid for in bitcoin. Vinci Hair Clinic, located in London's medical treatments hub Harley Street, said it completed the hair transplant on 18th Dec for the price of 11.538461 BTC. The clinic said its hair transplant patient was a 32-year-old man from the Middle East who wanted to remain anonymous. The patient paid the clinic in bitcoin, which was worth $6,000 at the time, which the clinic immediately converted to GBP. "We started to take bitcoin seriously in November when we got inundated with requests to pay in bitcoins," said Vinci managing....
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