Bitcoin ATM manufacturer BitAccess has inward a recent annunciation revealed that the cryptocurrency tin hold out purchased across 6,000 retail storefronts inward Canada, via a Flexepin voucher that industrial plant similar to a gift card.
Ottawa-based Canadian bitcoin ATM developer BitAccess has revealed that the cryptocurrency volition hold out available for purchasing at 6,000 Canadian retail locations, via a ‘Flexipin’ voucher. The voucher tin hold out purchased via a payment bill of fare or yesteryear cash in addition to industrial plant similar a gift card.
The voucher volition hold out made available to shoppers across Canada in addition to tin hold out bought from a store cashier. Following the buy of the voucher, a receipt is provided to the customer. lx seconds later, the receipt tin hold out redeemed for the cash equivalent inward the cryptocurrency.
The vouchers volition hold out available inward denominations of $10, $30, $50, $100 in addition to $250.
BitAccess has previously noted that it is unable to larn its ATMs out inward the existent footing “efficiently enough” inward guild to serve users who move the cryptocurrency every bit a transactional tool, rather than an investment. In a recent blog, the companionship called these users the “real users of bitcoin.”
The rollout of options to growth bitcoin purchasing in addition to adoption yesteryear BitAccess comes inside a calendar month of to a greater extent than or less other Canadian decentralized technologies hub Decentral, launching a similar service.
The Toronto-based disruption in addition to invention hub is providing ‘bitcoin cards’ that tin hold out purchased at local retail stores across Canada. Buyers tin buy dissimilar denominations of the bill of fare earlier redeeming the bill of fare value for bitcoin via Decentral’s website.
With its endeavor, Decentral also revealed plans to offering Ethereum in addition to other alternative currencies inward substitution for fiat Canadian dollars inward retail locations yesteryear the destination of 2016. Decentral also owns a bitcoin ATM inward Toronto. Along amongst the novel bitcoin-for-cash initiatory amongst the ‘bitcoin cards’, the project design is to growth adoption in addition to availability of the cryptocurrency inward Canada, Decentral founder in addition to CEO Anthony Di Iorio revealed.
He stated:
We’ve helped thousands of customers buy bitcoin at our bitcoin ATM inward Toronto, in addition to our goal has ever been to growth availability across Canada.
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