Chicago's Gold Coast Tickets Sees Benefit in Accepting Bitcoin
Chicago's largest secondary ticket broker, Gold Coast Tickets, has announced they're now accommodating bitcoin payments from customers who wish to use the digital currency to pay for tickets to sports events, concerts, theatres, and more. The almost twenty-year-old company claims to be the first ticket broker in the world to accept bitcoin in a partnership with San Francisco-based Coinbase - one of the largest digital currency payments processor. "We were one of the first ticket resellers to use ecommerce seriously and we are always looking to be a leader in the ticket selling community,"....
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The Chicago Sun-Times is set to launch the first bitcoin-enabled QR code advertisements this week. The ads, which will first appear on 2nd July, allow readers to make direct purchases of tickets for an upcoming concert featuring famed hip-hop power couple Beyoncé and Jay-Z. The Chicago-based newspaper teamed up with Coinbase and Blockchain on the digital currency initiative. Ticket broker Golden Coast Tickets will be handling the actual purchases. The Sun-Times first began integrating bitcoin in February. At the time, it was the first major US newspaper to begin accepting bitcoin payments.....
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....
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....
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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....