Starbucks, Nordstrom And Whole Foods Now Accept Bitcoin. Just Don’t Ask Them.
All evidence points to the fact that as of today, some of the largest and best-known companies in the world are now accepting bitcoin, ether, litecoin, bitcoincash, zcash and the Gemini Dollar, a cryptocurrency backed by real U.S. dollars stored in a State Street account and built on top of the public ethereum blockchain.
One possible reason is that in August 2018, Starbucks announced it was afounding partner of a competing cryptocurrency exchange, Bakkt, and wouldhelp the New York Stock Exchange spin off convert digital assets into U.S.dollars for acceptance as payment at their stores.
So how is Flexa already letting Cameron Winklevoss pay for that Starbucks coffee with crypto, and how are the 15 other enterprises also doing so? First, users need to download the app from Apple’s App store, then send it their asset of choice from any cryptocurrency wallet.