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According to GeekWire, Coinme, a manufacturer of cryptocurrency ATMs from Seattle, has entered into a partnership agreement with the manufacturer of Coinstar machines, which will allow paying for purchases with bitcoins in grocery stores.
The new partner Coinme has introduced service in Safeway and Albertsons supermarkets in California, Washington and Texas. Kiosks will allow customers to purchase bitcoins for cash of up to $ 2,500. Upon completion of the transaction, the system provides a code that can be used on the Coinme website to get acquired bitcoins.

Despite the fact that many people call the current period "crypto-winter", Coinme CEO and co-founder Neil Bergquist believes that a startup with ATMs is flourishing: "Our customers use Bitcoin for remittances, diversifying their savings or simply as a gift for family members interested in Bitcoin."
Coinme's CEO and Co-Founder Neil Bergquist is convinced that cryptocurrency is now more useful than ever: "People stop gambling with the price of cryptocurrency and are beginning to use the technological advantages of the blockchain."

Do you think people who own Bitcoin will pay for their daily purchases? Everyone remembers that pizza was worth 10,000 bitcoins, now it would be a huge fortune.

I think in a few years all people will start using Bitcoin to buy products and so on. Because the blockchain and crypto will greatly change our world for the better.

Its fascinating, so far if I have to look back at how bitcoin started its journey its been a huge accomplishment so afar ,I believe that in the future we will all totally embrace buying and selling using bitcoin and other coins available ,paying for school fees and buying properties with coins ,its just easier I hope in the future bitcoin will have better value and somewhat stable

Every step to broader adoption of cryptocurrency is a great step. Bitcoin ATMs work well in Europe, and they are quite popular. Unfortunately, it is still a bit complicated compared to just withdrawing cash from ATM.

Expect some serious dump whenever the whole market around the world accepting bitcoins. and whenever bitcoins accepted, it just like fiat.

If bitcoin can be bought easily, I do not mind spending bitcoin for my daily purchases. For me, I spend my bitcoin carefully because it is not easy and cheap to purchase Bitcoin. If I ever spend my Bitcoin, it is troublesome for me to purchase Bitcoin again. 

I think a few years will be very small in order that the cryptocurrency began to use the whole world, a very large volatilnosti, many banks and companies this is exactly why to be wary of him, and the idea of the decentralization of large corporations is quite uninteresting, on the contrary, the centralization of for them the best form of control. Blockchain is cool, of course, but where the benefits and corruption rule, no one needs it.

An interesting take on it, "crypto winter" but what's actually happening is the like "quiet adoption", one day it'll be everywhere  ;D

Why not? as long as there's a store that's willing to accept payment in bitcoin. What Neil Bergquist has said was accurate and true, people now are just looking at the prices of crypto especially to bitcoin and decides through it if its still worth it on their opinion.

But they never see the technological aspect that adoption is just getting started. Just look on what their company is trying to do. Though bitcoin mostly is being used as an investment, I'm sure that as long as there's a store nearby to us that accepts bitcoin we're glad to use it for those goods and stuffs that we need.

Interestingly, I find buying Bitcoin easier (not cheaper though) than selling Bitcoin for fiat.
So the idea to buy goods directly with Bitcoin is very interesting. I am just curious how will they handle the waiting time until the first confirmation (or will they use LN?).
Of course, since the only way I've bought directly with Bitcoin was online, I may be missing something obvious...

Yes today we look at 10000 BTC is a very big figure for us. But I'm sure you would have waited until the bitcoin was $ 1 if you were the person who bought the pizza that day.

And this news is great for market. I hope it will spread all corner of the world.

I don't think that bitcoin will be used as a daily payment instument. In my view every government will create their own cryptocurrency which will be legit in their country and people will use it to pay in supermarket.

One of the barriers to bitcoin adoption is that it is too damned difficult to buy. If it can be purchase at the supermarkets then even the typical housewife looking to invest a bit on the side is able to get into crypto as well

that is good news that will increase the price and appeal of bitcoin and I hope there will be more stores or companies that support crypto for their payment systems so that crypto can really be the currency used for payments not only as a currency traded and made an investment

There are still many people who are not familiar with cryptocurrency. Without crypto expansion carried out by certain parties, I think it will take a long time for crypto to develop in the general public. So we need to thank people who have worked hard in spreading crypto.

what i believe is that people have already been doing that for a long time whenever possible. not everyone is in it for the profit and not everyone is going to just sell to get the profit out. what that second part means is that if you check out the merchant stats in 2017 you can see that we didn't just have a price ATH, we also had a merchant stats ATH where they had their most number of customers spending their bitcoins in their business to get that "profit" out.

it would be convenient for me to pay Bitcoin in the store, because now my Bitcoin goes a long way to turn into a Fiat .. while losing money for a percentage of the transaction, for transferring to a card and so on .. of course it would be great in all countries and shops there were such ATMs — it would significantly reduce my expenses ..

Technologies in our world are moving forward to make our lives better and more comfortable, introducing this payment system for goods into reality, can positively affect the popularization of cryptography and its further progress. We will be able to pay for the goods we need with the money of the future, this will simplify the calculations.

If this news is truly genuine, then we are looking at another milestone in the revolution brought by Bitcoin, we are entering an era where Cryptocurrencies might be more circular.

         That `s what I believe as well. In a few years, everyone will use Bitcoin as a means of payment. It would be interesting for all people to know and use crypto coins. That would bring massive increases in coin prices. Until then, we must enjoy every step advanced towards this useful premise.

This is great news, we need more adoption like this, it may be need more development from Bitcoin about the speed and transaction fee, but if we can have more store to accept this then it definitely going to be good for Bitcoin future, the aim from the Bitcoin is to be able to spend it on daily items, so if more shop adopt it then we are closer to the goal

Each next ATM, service and website that accept payments in Bitcoin is the next step to the mainstream and full adoption of cryptocurrencies. Such information is another positive event that will help raise the crypto currency market from the knees and lead to the new ATH. Well done and thank you Coinme!

People who own bitcoin will not buy for these funds in stores. Because bitcoin is an investment at the moment. People are willing to trade on exchanges to sell them at inflated prices but without nommission. Earning instead of spending.

No, because local exchanges has huge transaction fee. The ideal way in purchasing products or services is.by using fiat money where one does not need to join for a loc ezchages to get bitcoin but will eventually if you have already a transaction fee will be deducted for converting fiat to crypto. So I will.not suggest to buy bitcoin just for the purpose of purchasing products. Bitcoin is not efficient for this.

Bitcoin still can not compete with the usual money in terms of payment for services, products, and in everyday life. Maybe in 5 years, if by that time nothing will change globally.

I think bitcoin is more reasonable to be used when you are transacting with larger amount of money to save in transaction fees. If we use it to buy everyday essentials with the current transaction fees, the fees would become a significant additional to our expenses which should not be existing at the first place when we use fiat.

i think most people will not use bitcoin for shopping. currently most people see it as a value investment. that will hopefully change someday, but that will certainly take a long time.

Why not. I see what is happening in Paris today, I understand that today BTC is a possible option for the transition from fiat media to digital. Today, banks no longer have such authority as before.

Anything is possible to happen in the future. It bitcoin had been created then I don't think your idea would not happen in the future because btc had grown tremendously and it became world wide scope already. I mean in terms of popularity and its use with all the people who knew about cryptocurrency I think we will reach that point where we will be able to make our normal purchases using btc and altcoins.

Hey yes bitcoins adoption rate has been growing steadily this year, and these new atms are helping bitcoins explore a whole new market. I feel that in 2019 many people will choose only crypto’s, and in particular bitcoins as a mode of daily payments. It’s pertinent to note that many countries are now accepting bitcoins, as payments for their taxes which shall further fuel it’s growth.

https://dailyhodl.com/2019/01/20/bitcoin-dips-below-3600-as-venezuela-is-set-to-become-77th-country-in-worlds-rising-network-of-bitcoin-atms-despite-crypto-price-volatility/

For now most people use bitcoin for investment, and trading for profit. But in future bitcoin can used for many kinds payment, example buying house, insurance , shopping ,etc .That's can be happen, let see and monitored development bitcoin

This is very good news, which makes me even more believe in the future of cryptocurrencies and that we will increasingly use them as a means of payment. But at the moment, not all countries have achieved such progress associated with crypto-currencies and not all people are ready to use Bitcoin as a means of payment.

By the order of the day. Cryptocurrency is gradually gaining more relevance.
Our decision to use cryptocurrency in daily life is dependent of collective efforts and agreement.
It was because those distributing bitcoin in some years back, decided to add value to it, from what is just used in sending data to what has price on exchange.
Very soon, it will gain mass adoption, part of which will enable and foster its growth.

I think it will be very interesting. Of course, not everyone can just part with their bitcoins in order to pay for any goods. But there will definitely be people who will.

Those who are strong Hodlers won`t pay in BTC, but there are many who will, like traders -taking the profit or bounty hunters
others. That is good news for the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies.

This news is a small but a nice progress for acceptance of bitcoin and/or alts. There are so many people who are willing to use their coins for their payments and people are hindered by officials or other authorities. This is no good and that is changing even though it takes more time than we have expected.

I don't know whether they are true news or not.
However, so far, there is only few companies that can accept the Bitcoin for the payment method. it is also only i the certain countries. However, in the next years, it will probably acceptable.

That was a unexpected yet very good news to us all. We have seen many countries that is introducing already on bitcoin as their alternative payment system, and maybe next time, we can see bitcoin that was fully integrated and mass adopted.

That could be a good news for the future of bitcoin and perhaps for all the altcoins.
I think if the implementation is success, the other altcoin should be able to follow the steps of bitcoin. That will also means the future of cryptocurrency will be even better.

I am happy about such news.
That shows again that the acceptance of crypto continues to increase.
Slowly but surely bitcoin finds its way into our everyday life and i like that very much.

Yes, I also agree with you, that crypto for the future will definitely develop better, including for bitcoin and coin-coins, which of course will also increase and in the future hopefully it will run as expected

I guess it really is inevitable that cryptocurrencies will eventually be accepted like traditional fiat.
This is good for us in the crypto space. The more users, the more boom we will have on the next bull run.

This will take quite a long time, if small shops can experiment with this, then large supermarkets would hardly agree to leave the unrecognized technology, legally difficult.

I think that it is unreasonable to pay for a product with Bitcoin, using the example of the same pizza. But for the stores it would be a pleasure, and a lot of a lot of money. After all, we all know that Bitcoin still makes the start up.

But thats not that easy, i think the number of transactions using bitcoin will gradually increasing and we soon will see so many great institutions investors coming into this space, and i also believe soon bitcoin demands will increasing and that means good things will coming for crypto and bitcoin. Regulations will have a huge impact, i hope we could got a good regulations that will support innovation and cryptocurrency.

 ;D Oh, this story with a pizza) Well, such ATMs are an interesting solution. Interesting if there is proof of identity? Since such a tool can become a money laundering tool or a tool to hide money from the authorities.

In other matters interest. In Dubai, there are machines with gold. And there will be ATMs with cryptocurrency here)

I believe cryptocurrency with time will become a widely accepted means of making payment. When this time reach, we will all enjoy it and I hope it come soon.

If you look at the stages of development of bitcoin as it was 10 years ago and now you can see a big difference, as in some countries in stores already accept bitcoins and I think this is a great development

I think that the availability of ATMs in which you can buy bitcoins can lead to a very large popularization of bitcoin in California, as well as in all other places where they are installed, therefore, in general, I look very positively at such innovations, I think that its help to create more wide cryptocurrency infrastructure and allow people to learn more about crypto.

no need to wait for the next few years, now even bitcoin and some of the types of altcoins you have have been accepted as legitimate means of payment in some countries. try to travel abroad that has received cryptocurrency

Bitcoin should be stabilized to be a currency for everyday usage. It won't be so in a year or five. I expect some kind of stabilizing in 10-15 years, so BTC price would be in a range $300-400k and the volatility won't be as huge as before. In long term now it's time for accumulation, not distribution.

actually there's a possibility mate that it can be use anywhere in my opinion  ,such  buying stuff in the store and etc like fiat ,but as usual it will stay as a transparent currency . But probably it will happen  only in the future once all government regulate it to become as a payment method. As the matter of fact more ppl now a days already  knows and very satisfied about the real power of bitcoin so it's not impossible.

maybe but for sure more ppl will still be preferred to use bitcoin , so it will become useless  which if however government create their own crypto. because bitcoin is very popular around the globe and more banks, atm and online store already accept it. So doubts ppl will always choose the most reliable and trustworthy even though it becomes restricted in their country.   .

Although this is a useful trend for crypto, it remains exotic. While the disadvantages of cryptocurrency will not be eliminated, many prefer to use a regular card for everyday purchases. Confidentiality and money laundering are especially important for any state in this case.

I can't buy milk, eggs, breakfast and others house hold commodities because my country's government don't allow bitcoin as their trading system and the bank also denied bitcoin.

I think Bitcoin is not the best crypto currency for daily payments. There are tons of altcoins that would fit much better and I truly do not believe that BTC with its 7 TPS would be considered as a payment method.

This is the biggest problem that citizens of the countries where it is not legal face it. As they cannot use crypto and take advantage of the future technology which has a great potential to disrupt the many traditional ways things work. Also it has a good investment opportunity and new business could be created related to it.

indeed it's time to make a purchase using bitcoin. the fact that there is someone who buys pizza with 10,000 bitcoin, and its value can now increase many times over, it is unfortunate. so for that to not happen again, you should start making payments using bitcoin.

yes you are right people will think while giving the Bitcoin to others will made them more richer that's why it is not a right currency to by products for our daily uses but when the good regulation will came then it will be possible.

I also can't buy eggs, milk, bread with bitcoin, because there are many stores that have not received bitcoin. Moreover, bitcoin itself is still too expensive to buy daily necessities. Bitcoin is still very valuable in my country so transactions are still dearer for long-term investments.

i think its a nice way to make crypto recover, some ico project has make their way to support bitcoin to become healthy again, hope it will succes and other ico project did the same thing like this.

It would be very unfortunate if the shop uses Crypto of bitcoin. would be quite unfortunate because the even value it can be a disadvantage when bitcoin began experiencing an incredible rise again. with it then I think it needs to keep using the money only and crypto for investment.

Bitcoin could be e currency payment fro buying milk, eggs and bread but we need regulation first at government how to make its allowed for using as transaction payment, will be profitable using bitcoin as e currency than other payment.

This is a good news. Atm, I won’t be using my Bitcoin for purchases regularly because I think the price is kind of low. However, I don’t mind spending some of my Bitcoin to support this initiative.

All this will be possible very soon. We can only wait. When all the same there will be real opportunities for the implementation of all products for BTC and back. When can I buy these products for BTC

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We all pray for this future to come quick. I look forward to the day I will be proud to tell people around me that I joined the crypto world early enough. And to be their guide when making purchases with cryptocurrency. Hahaha