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Topic subject | just bought coffee and a donut with crypto |
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13342985, just bought coffee and a donut with crypto Posted by Crash Bandacoot, Tue Aug-13-19 02:35 PM
i was able to just walk into dunkin donuts/baskin robbins and purchase coffee and a donut with eth using a mobile app. it's one thing to hear about real world use case for crypto but, to see it in action with your own two eyes....it's revolutionary. it was just like any other transaction, the cashier had no clue i was using eth.
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13342994, How does it work? Posted by PimpTrickGangstaClik, Tue Aug-13-19 03:33 PM
Do you scan a barcode or something?
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13343038, RE: How does it work? Posted by Crash Bandacoot, Wed Aug-14-19 05:35 AM
it's a new payment system that will let you spend crypto in physical stores and eventually online. the app generates a QR code that you scan at the checkout register. each transaction goes through the network's token which will eventually allow for staking of those tokens. you can pay with btc, eth, bitcoin cash, gemini dollar (winklevoss' stablecoin), and zcash was just added. the list of merchants is growing fast, the team claims over 30,000. they opened up shop in canada yesterday.
here's their medium site: https://medium.com/flexa
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13343011, You're wasting crypto wtf! Posted by Kira, Tue Aug-13-19 04:18 PM
You're better off stacking it and waiting until it increases in price before selling it.
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13343018, Isn’t this like cashing out a stock to buy coffee? Posted by legsdiamond, Tue Aug-13-19 06:36 PM
I guess she was testing out a new app but I thought the hole point of crypto was to stack money and buy shady stuff anonymously
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13343056, She? *Checks profile* Posted by Kira, Wed Aug-14-19 09:54 AM
Whoops, I misgendered Crash my bad.
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13343039, RE: You're wasting crypto wtf! Posted by Crash Bandacoot, Wed Aug-14-19 05:39 AM
>You're better off stacking it and waiting until it increases >in price before selling it.
the eth was free ($5 worth) but, yeah. you don't necessarily have to transact with hard earned crypto, could transact with a stablecoin.
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13343033, ain't that the diarrhea virus keeping ppl out of pools? nm Posted by poetx, Tue Aug-13-19 11:21 PM
peace & blessings,
x.
www.twitter.com/poetx
========================================= I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and not having much to show for it. (c) mad
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