New York's Hester Street Fair Teams Up With BitPay for Weekly Bitcoin Market
Hester Street Fair located in the heart of the Lower East Side is the largest pushcart market in New York City. Now in its fifth season, the market is dotted with 60 to 90 small businesses selling anything from artisanal food to vintage clothing to handmade arts and crafts. Next weekend, like every other Sunday, the market will be up and buzzing, but with a twist in the tale. The entrance of Hester Street Fair in New York. Starting 15th June, more than 30 vendors at the Hester Street Fair will be trading their artisan goods for bitcoin every Sunday until the end of October. Over its....
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Late last month we learned about a New York City fair that's aiming to make a splash in the bitcoin community byholding 'bitcoin fairs' on a weekly basis. It's the Hester Street Fair in the Lower East Side, and it's all in attempts of attracting a younger crowd to the marketplace, with offerings of handmade jewelry, vintage items, to food like wood-fired pizza and ice cream sandwiches. Bitcoin payments processor BitPay says they're teaming up with the Fair in order to accommodate bitcoin acceptance among the select vendors who will be accepting digital currency. "We are so pleased with our....
What was once the location of New York City's largest pushcart market at the turn of the century has become one of the most popular street markets on the Lower East Side, known as the Hester Street Fair. In earlier times, the fair started out as a highly curated outdoor market and was the best place to get one-of-a-kind goods and specialty foods in all of New York City. Fast forward to today, and the Hester Street Fair offers everything from handmade jewelry and rare vintage pieces, to wood fire pizza and lobster rolls. The fair features artists, collectors and entrepreneurs every Saturday....
A unique alternative to the Bitcoin conference is due to get underway next month in New York. The New York Bitcoin Fair will be held every weekend from 15 June and offer a range of products and services which customers can use Bitcoin to pay for. Organizers of the fair explain that the main advantage of the event will be the absence of the “prohibitive” ticket prices associated with typical events. The weekly event will focus on retail with increasing education socially, however, rather than drawing on figures from the community. Costs involved are said to be reduced as the fair will take....
Beginning this summer, New York residents that also take interest in bitcoin will have access to an outdoor bitcoin fair, aptly named the NYC Bitcoin Fair. According to the group organizing the fair, it starts on Sunday, June 15th - and if things go according to plan, it's an event that could be held every week. Described by the organizers: We want to be able to provide a free Bitcoin event for the masses without the prohibitive ticket prices which most similar conferences/events entail. A typical event usually have to charge high ticket prices due to the rental of the venue, but we're....
More than 200 job seekers convened yesterday at the Bitcoin Job Fair in New York, a networking function organized to connect potential employees with companies in the bitcoin arena. The event was hosted by the Bitcoin Center NYC on Broad Street in New York's Financial District. BitPay, Coinbase, Coinsetter and eGifter were among the higher-profile of the 11 companies with representation at the job fair. Alex Palantzas, head of business development at the Bitcoin Center said the job fair is one of the most crowded and successful events they have ever had, telling CoinDesk: "The turnout is....