The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Five Ways To Gift Bitcoin And Its Benefits
Bitcoin can serve as an excellent gift for those trying to introduce people to the technology who may not have taken the plunge on their own.This is an opinion editorial by Koa Frederick, Senior Vice President of SaaS strategy at Accelerate Agency.Giving gifts can be a tricky thing. Plain old cash seems low effort. Socks are called unmentionables for a reason. Personal care products could get interpreted as unsolicited advice.What to buy for the friend or loved one who has everything?It’s a thorny perennial question; that much is no secret.Sound familiar? Then why not give them bitcoin?No....
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One of the more common ways for consumers to spend Bitcoin is by buying gift cards from various retailers and outlets. Popular Bitcoin gift card services will often offer a small discount on every purchase. Giving consumers an extra incentive to spend digital currency. A recent survey by CardCash shows how Starbucks gift cards are a clear fan favorite, whereas Visa Gift Cards are far less preferable. Most of these trends seem to correlate with how consumers would spend USD balances on gift cards, though.
The season of giving is here, and there’s no better way to spread the incredible benefits of cryptocurrency by giving our loved ones bitcoins. Giving bitcoin to family and friends will help spread adoption and can also be a pretty unique gift. This holiday season bitcoiners can relax about thinking of gift ideas for their friends and family. The gift of....
Centz, a digital currency service letting users convert gift card balances to cash, will hold an ICO in November, hosted by OpenLedger. Centz: Turn Gift Cards Into Digital Cash. Announcing its service at Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, Centz uses a specialized digital currency called “Centz Gold Bucks” (CGB) to convert gift card balances to digital cash, letting users spend their balances on anything. To use the service, customers create an account and load gift card balances into their digital wallets. Centz then converts the card balances into CGB and gives it to users in a single, spendable....
Gift giving during the holidays just took on a whole new meaning. eBay, the parent company of PayPal, filed patent application20130339188, "Gift Token" with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on June 18, 2012. The USPTO published the application on December 19, 2013. The technology was invented by itsengineers from Tamilnadu, Indiaand assigned to eBay Inc. of San Jose, California. The innocuous sounding application "Gift Token" was probably written in such a way as to shield trade secrets from competitive intelligence gathering. It is common for companies to obfuscate....
Christmas is once again around the corner (metaphorically speaking at least, as time isn’t actually endowed with too many corners), and you may be considering giving loved ones the gift of Bitcoin. But what is the best way to do it, and should you really be doing it at all? Not Just For Christmas: A Bitcoin Is For Life. As a Bitcoin enthusiast, you probably love spreading the word, and what better way than to force coerce those you care about into also caring about your favorite cryptocurrency? Sadly, for those not already versed in the technology, presenting a link to an online wallet is....