Hodl or spend? Retailers offer Black Friday deals for those paying with crypt...
As crypto enters the mainstream, major retailers are offering discounts and promotions to get customers to pay using cryptocurrency Cryptocurrency adoption is slowly but surely making its way to the mainstream — a notion that has become more apparent as major retailers like PayPal announce support for digital currencies. As such, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that crypto holders may be keen to spend some of their digital currency this holiday season. According to a new report from Forrester and blockchain payments service provider BitPay, cryptocurrency adopters tend to spend more than....
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Black Friday-generally considered the busiest day of the Christmas shopping season-is fast approaching. Bitcoin Discounts is piggybacking off of the multiple-year successful "Bitcoin Black Friday" event to help bitcoin-friendly merchants advertise their deals to the bitcoin community and customers find stores that plan to offer Black Friday bitcoin deals. Editor's Note: The "Bitcoin Black Friday" that most Bitcoiners are familiar with from the years past is brought to you by Bitcoin Black Friday, not Bitcoin Discounts. Also Read: Half of Small Businesses Not Prepared to Accept Bitcoin.....
Today is the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, also known as Black Friday – a day when retailers everywhere offer the year’s best deals and discounts. The day is no different in the world of crypto, and those interested in Bitcoin and other altcoins can take advantage of the savings and stock up […]
Bitcoin Black Friday was hailed as a huge success last year and it looks set to be even bigger in 2014, with hundreds of retailers competing for your hard-earned bitcoins. There are a plethora of great deals and offers floating around for today's retail bonanza - so many that we could not include them all. Check out our top picks below. Electronics. Newegg. Newegg is offering extra discounts on certain products to customers who pay with bitcoin. The offers run until the end of 30th November. The items on offer include MSI's GS60 Ghost-470 Gaming Laptop, originally priced at $1,599, reduced....
Black Friday, a popular shopping phenomenon in the United States that occurs the day after Thanksgiving, is getting a bitcoin-related promotion. The effort, dubbed Bitcoin Black Friday, aims to list the best deals for anyone paying with bitcoin. Existing bitcoin merchants can sign up now, but they are also hoping to entice new merchants to accept bitcoin. Signing up is free. "Bitcoin Black Friday is simply a way to help BTC consumers, help BTC merchants," founder Jon Holmquist told CoinDesk. Holmquist thinks that bitcoin's distributed, peer-to-peer nature makes it a bit difficult to....
Late last night, Tony Sakich - Marketing Manager at BitPay - announced the results from the latest incarnation of "Bitcoin Black Friday". Named after the date that high street retailers generally shift their accounts from red (debt) to black (credit) the traditional Black Friday is known as a daywear retail activity spikes through the offering of large discounts on particular products. Bitcoin Black Friday is the digital currency-sphere's take on this event, and its results have been logged for the last two years by BitPay. There were a few key takeaways, highlighted below: This year we....