Chicago Sun-Times to Let Readers Buy Jay-Z, Beyonce Tickets With Bitcoin
The Chicago Sun-Times is launching a new type of advertisement that will allow its readers to buy products with bitcoin directly from printed material. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, the Sun-Times will run product ads featuring QR codes. Readers will then be able to scan the codes and conduct transactions in bitcoin to make a purchase. The first deployment of bitcoin QR code-enhanced ads is coming soon and will let readers buy tickets to an upcoming concert featuring Jay-Z and Beyonce at Chicago's Soldier Field via a local ticket exchange. According to Josh Metnick, chief....
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It is so nice to see how bitcoin is spreading all over the world. Thanks to Mr. Josh Metnick CTO of Wrapports LCC a media ventrure that owns and operated the Chicago Sun-Times. has started accepting bitcoin for subscriptions in April, and as they promised they are continuing to experiment. The paper plans to run ads with printed QR codes, allowing readers to use bitcoin to buy products directly. The first test of this is planned in conjunction with a local ticket exchange for tickets to a Jay-Z/Beyonce show at Soldier Field this summer. Also, the paper, which started accepting bitcoin....
Chicago Sun Times seems to be embracing Bitcoin. The paper began taking bitcoin for subscriptions last month. A month in which 11% of their new sign-ups were paid for in bitcoin. The paper is going to be running ads with QR codes that will allow its readers to use bitcoin to buy products directly. The first test of this is new technology and the ads being placed in the paper will be a co-venture with a local ticket broker for tickets to a Jay-Z and Beyonce show at Soldier Field in Chicago this summer. “As newspapermen ourselves, we take special interest in the things that the group over at....
The Chicago Sun-Times certainly seems to be on a roll when it comes to their bitcoin adoption techniques. The paper became the first major news publication to allow subscribers to pay with bitcoin back in April, following a brief paywall test in early February. In a Wall Street Journal. BitBeat piece from last week, some interesting information came out with regard to some in-the-works plans the Sun-Times has when it comes to advertising and business expansion. The word is that the paper is planning to run advertisements with QR codes, which will allow readers to pay for the advertised....
Readers who visit the Chicago Sun-Times today will notice something they aren't likely to have seen before: a bitcoin paywall separating them from their content. The Chicago Sun-Times is the ninth-largest newspaper in the United States, and the first major US publication to trial a bitcoin paywall. Instead of paying for a subscription, as patrons of the The Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times do, Chicago Sun-Times readers who visit the site on 1st February will be asked to donate bitcoin payments to the Taproot Foundation, or tweet about the nonprofit, in order to read articles. The....
Bitcoin paywall provider BitWall is partnering with the Chicago Sun-Times to conduct a 24-hour bitcoin paywall test. The experiment, the first of its kind for a major US publication, will happen on the Sun-Times website on 1st February. Readers accessing articles during this time will see an overlay "wall" before accessing an article. They will be given the option to pay to see the article with bitcoin, or to tweet the story for access. "We continue to experiment and test new technologies that we believe engage our readers and look forward to being the first major USA newspaper to test a....