Gyft Now Lets You Buy American Airlines Gift Cards With Bitcoin
Electronic gift card retailer Gyft has been on a roll lately! Not too long ago - two days ago, in fact - we noted that the service was now allowing its customers to purchase gift cards to Best Buy. Read more: Gyft Adds Best Buy Gift Cards, Limited to $10 For Short Time. Now, another option has been added - and it goes far beyond electronics. Try the blue skies instead. Gyft CEO Vinny Lingham took to social sharing website Reddit.com Thursday to announce that his company has added support for purchasing gift cards with bitcoin redeemable with American Airlines. Users have the option of....
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Just this morning, BitPay, Inc announced it's newest merchant, Gyft. Gyft, a mobile gift card platform, added support for Bitcoin purchases of gift cards on the Android platform, through its partnership with BitPay Inc, the world's leading payment processor for Bitcoin. Gyft offers a mobile gift card app to allow customers to buy, store, send, and redeem gift cards on their phones. In addition to a free phone app, customers can share gift cards via Facebook. Gyft works with 50,000 physical retail locations across the USA including GAP, Lowes, Sephora, Gamestop, American Eagle, Sports....
Plastic gift cards are so 2012, but going mobile and digital with your gift-card purchases isn't enough anymore. Now you can pay for gift card apps with bitcoins. California-based Gyft, a digital gift card platform serving the US, announced today that it has partnered with BitPay to begin accepting bitcoin payments from customers. While Gyft offers both an iPhone app and an Android app, the bitcoin option will be available only on Android. The app itself is free. By enabling bitcoin payments for gift cards, the Gyft-BitPay partnership essentially opens the door to let bitcoin fans....
Bitcoin wallet provider Pheeva has integrated its hot wallet service with Gyft, a San Francisco-based mobile gift card company that accepts bitcoin. Users can access more than 200 retail gift cards from inside of its wallet, thanks to its new relationship with Gyft. The idea is to simplify the process for people using bitcoin, and vice-versa. Lamar Wilson, the founder of Pheeva, told CoinDesk: "We just took away more of [bitcoin's] friction, so you can just buy gift cards directly in the wallet." Gyft access. The difference between most wallets and Pheeva is users are able to access retail....
Gyft Cloud is a cloud-based digital gift card solution. Gyft is pretty well-known in the bitcoin world. The service allows users to purchase digital gift cards with bitcoin or credit card for hundreds of retailers. Users can also upload their plastic gift cards to their Gyft wallet so that cards can be stored securely and retrieved anywhere with an Internet connection. And now, Gyft is expanding its services to merchants with Gyft Cloud - “the ultimate mobile gift card solution.” “Offering plastic gift cards can be cost prohibitive and an operational nightmare for small to mid-sized....
From Gyft to Fold App to Yes To Bitcoins, there are numerous places you can buy gift cards with Bitcoin. See our list below for more. #1. Gyft - Gyft is a digital gift card platform that lets you manage your gift cards, as well as enables businesses to offer easy reward and loyalty programs. The site recently saw a drop in usage by Bitcoiners of 80%. #2. Fold App - With the fold app, you can get a cup of coffee at Starbucks. Foldapp CEO Matt Luongo told CCN his company had delivered more than 2,000 purchases by summer 2015. #3. Purse.io - Purse.io hooks Bitcoiners up with people who have....