MIT COOP Store Accepting Bitcoin Through BitPay
The MIT COOP, a store which allows students at the institution to purchase a multitude of products (most prominently, books) is now accepting bitcoins, according to a Thursday morning announcement. It's effectively become the first major university bookstore to support the bitcoin digital currency as a means of making payments, perhaps setting the trend for other college institutions not only in the United States, but around the world. "The MIT COOP is the first campus-based business to respond to this student-led adoption, continuing its reputation as a cooperative by students and for....
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's student bookstore 'The COOP' announced plans to begin accepting Bitcoin through payment processor BitPay, making them the first major university bookstore to accept the cryptocurrency. In such a vibrant, young Bitcoin community, this could be a huge way of introducing Bitcoin to the future's brilliant minds. As BitPay Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Tony Gallippi wrote in a press release earlier today: "Students are the next generation technology leaders and we expect them to be at the forefront of new technology adoption like bitcoin. As MIT....
The MIT Coop bookstore, a retail store serving the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is now accepting bitcoin for T-shirts, textbooks, school supplies and more. The news comes amid increasing interest in bitcoin at the university and ahead of a scheduled 'airdrop' of $500,000 in bitcoin to MIT undergraduates. The project, which will provide $100 to every MIT student, is scheduled to take place sometime later this fall. The MIT Coop is already equipped with a bitcoin ATM, a development that Jerry Murphy, of the bookstore's management firm, said made accepting bitcoin a natural....
The folks over at Liberty Teller are expanding their regional network of bitcoin ATMs with the introduction of their latest operated device installed inside of the MIT COOP retail store in Kendall Square. "We are pleased to bring our bitcoin ATM to Kendall Square's vibrant tech and startup community which is home to Google, Facebook, Twitter, MIT, and the Cambridge Innovation Center among others. Along with the MIT Bitcoin Project ($500K giveaway), the public launch of Circle, and an increasing number of local merchants accepting bitcoin, Cambridge/Boston is showing the world that it is a....
American radio host Alex Jones, known well for his conspiracy theories, is apparently now accepting bitcoin on his online store. NEWSBTC confirmed the option is available upon check out (which you can view yourself), meaning fans of Jones can purchase anything from emergency radios to herbal products. Jones has taken a recent interest in the digital currency, which really doesn't come as too much of a surprise, even devoting segments on his program to the topic, as seen in the clip below. http://youtu.be/ovk-G_sgwmc. It would appear as if the Infowars store has partnered up with BitPay to....
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is now home to a new Liberty Teller bitcoin ATM, located at the MIT Coop store in Kendall Square, Cambridge, in an installation that marks MIT's first on-campus bitcoin ATM. The ATM launch represents another step in the development of what observers have labelled the development of the world's first "bitcoin economy" at MIT. Other aspects of the initiative include the distribution of $100 in bitcoin to undergraduates this coming fall, as well as the MIT Bitcoin Expo conference held in May. The MIT Coop is a member profit-sharing cooperative....