McDonald’s, pizza and coffee paid in Bitcoin: The Plan B for crypto payments
Crypto payments are taking off in a big way in Lugano, Switzerland with 60 merchants and counting. Over the weekend, thousands of Bitcoiners and crypto enthusiasts descended on the small, sleepy Swiss town of Lugano. More specifically, they piled onto a McDonald’s restaurant.Perched on Lake Lugano, McDonald’s Lugano received countless visits from Bitcoiners keen to trade satoshis (the smallest denomination of Bitcoin) for Big Macs, McFlurrys and coffee.But why were European crypto enthusiasts excited to pay in Bitcoin (BTC) at one of the world’s most recognizable brands? Well, firstly to....
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Laszlo's pizza. May 22 marks the annual "Bitcoin Pizza Day," an anniversary of the day in which one of the most expensive pizzas in the history of the world was purchased. The Story. Laszlo Hanyecz purchased the so-called Bitcoin Pizza on 22 May 2010. The programmer paid a Bitcoin Talk forum user 10,000 BTC for two Papa John's pizzas. The value at the time of the bitcoins was approximately $25. When based on today's exchange rate, that value skyrockets to $2,330,000. Here is the original post on the Bitcoin Talk forum: Here is confirmation of the exchange, which is considered by many the....
This is my official, first-person review of the website PizzaForCoins.com, which allows you to buy pizza with Bitcoin from the three largest pizza chains worldwide, instead of using paper currency. The thoughts and views expressed here are not necessarily shared by CryptoCoinsNews.com and are the opinions of the author, Evander Smart, alone. Being a old boy from Brooklyn, NY, and therefore having ordered, I don't know, a couple of thousand pizzas in my day, I think I'm a fair judge of how a pizza order should go down. From start to finish, I'm nothing if not experienced in the art, and now....
How easy is it to order a pizza with Bitcoin nowadays? Three authors of Cointelegraph have tried to do it in the US, UK and India, and here is what came out of it. “Ordering Pizza with Bitcoin in India is nigh impossible” - Shivdeep Dhaliwal, India. I have never purchased anything with Bitcoin in India yet. Ever. No pizza chain in my city takes Bitcoin, so my idea was to buy a voucher with Bitcoin from either ZebPay or to credit a payments app called Mobikwik through Unocoin and buy pizza through that. Alas. This was not to be. The Zebpay voucher had ran out of validity and Unocoin....