Bitcoin to Move to your Local Market?
2019年1月19日 - 3:12AM
ADVFN Crypto NewsWire
Bitcoin Global News (BGN)
January 18, 2019 -- ADVFN Crypto NewsWire -- Two factors are
holding Bitcoin back from being taken anywhere close to as
seriously as traditional fiat currencies. The first is that we do
not see everyday items priced in Bitcoin, except on certain,
relatively niche internet sites. The second is that despite it
being available on a multitude of exchange sites, Bitcoin is not
easy for everyone to obtain.
In one of their article’s today,
CoinDesk revealed how one company is tackling this second issue of
increasing adoption through making Bitcoin more widely available.
What may surprise you is that of the two companies involved, one is
very well-known and in some parts of the United States, easily seen
in just about every grocery store.
According to the article in
question, Coinstar is partnering with a company called Coinme to
integrate Bitcoin into their existing machines so that any
customers who already go to Coinstar to aggregate their various
coins into spendable receipts, can choose to do so into Bitcoin as
well.
Before you leave the computer to go
and find your local Coinstar machine, keep two facts in mind.
First, the companies are beginning by rolling out this capability
in Safeway and Albertsons stores in Washington state, California,
and Texas. Second, there is no indication that the process of
purchasing Bitcoin via an ATM or ATM-like machine has been made any
easier as a result of this partnership.
Considering this, the question
remains: what sort of educational initiatives will be rolled out to
incentivize more of the general populace to choose Bitcoin? On top
of this, why would they even give Bitcoin a chance when one of the
other chief options is a receipt that can be used like currency in
the grocery store in question?
As these improved machines rollout,
it would be reasonable to expect that all eyes will be on how the
companies involved choose to answer these questions.
By: BGN Editorial Staff
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