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Economy => Service Discussion => Topic started by: LinuxNut on June 09, 2013, 12:32:03 AM



Title: What about Coinstar?
Post by: LinuxNut on June 09, 2013, 12:32:03 AM
I am not sure who all has them, but in the supermarket there are CoinStar change machines to exchange your coins for cash they are now accepting Paypal. What would we need to do to get them to accept Bitcoin?


Title: Re: What about Coinstar?
Post by: Queezy on June 09, 2013, 12:45:44 AM
Has no one thought of this yet? If not they should have.  :o


Title: Re: What about Coinstar?
Post by: bbit on June 09, 2013, 01:13:22 AM
Has no one thought of this yet? If not they should have.  :o

It has been discussed before as with everything that is talked about around here it goes nowhere lol ...


Title: Re: What about Coinstar?
Post by: GGGGG on June 09, 2013, 03:15:35 AM
I think it would be awesome to exchange spare change for BTC - maybe if enough people contacted Coinstar asking for this option they would consider it.


Title: Re: What about Coinstar?
Post by: BitcoinBarrel on June 09, 2013, 03:23:30 AM
Well from the looks of things I doubt they'll do it any time soon with all these exchanges getting shut down.


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Post by: BTCTalkAccounts on June 09, 2013, 03:24:54 AM
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Title: Re: What about Coinstar?
Post by: cointastical on January 18, 2019, 10:39:00 PM
Well from the looks of things I doubt they'll do it any time soon with all these exchanges getting shut down.

Maybe not soon, but eventually.

Sorry to necrothread, but whatever.

Coinstar machines will start selling Bitcoin at the grocery store
- https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/bitcoin-coinstar-coinme

Lesson here, eventually nearly all financial services will be impacted by Bitcoin.


Title: Re: What about Coinstar?
Post by: gentlemand on January 19, 2019, 02:13:36 PM
Feeding a mountain of coins into machines like this is one of life's great pleasures, even though it's so goddamn unhygenic your hands are grey by the end of it. I can't find any mention of fees. I hope it's not even worse than what they charge to get conventional money back.

edit - https://www.coinstar.com/bitcoin

You can't turn loose coins into BTC. Weirdorama. More fees I presume.