Coin For Coffee Seeks Simple Way To Buy a Cup of Joe
Ever wanted to buy a cup of Starbucks coffee with your bitcoins? With Coin For Coffee, now you can. As its co-founder and CEO Matt Luongo explained to CoinDesk, Card For Coin leverages Starbucks' existing gift card infrastructure to process payments using digital currency. He put it simply: "We want people to be able to spend their bitcoins wherever they want." How it works. Coin For Coffee sports a simple interface. Users choose how much they want to upload (ranging from $5 to $50). After confirming a user's email address, the system produces a bitcoin address in which to deposit the....
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