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Vending machines across Australia and New Zealand will soon accept cryptocurrency, thanks to a partnership between Coca-Cola Amatil and digital asset integrator Centrapay.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/you-can-now-buy-a-coke-with-cryptocurrency-across-australia-and-new-zealand/

Starbucks, BurgerKing, Amazon, and now CocaCola is accepting cryptocurrencies! Do you see what I see? Adoption!
We are getting from the stage of internet payments to the real world, where you can pay for everyday stuff with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Wow now you can get a coke with crypto. This is surely a next step towards crypto adoption. I hope to see such vending machine be placed all around the world so I don't have to use fiat. Crypto are now getting much more popular among international travelers as card acceptability as well the hassle of carrying cash sucks. You can now book flights and hotel with crypto and if you can buy more and more service with crypto, you'll need to carry less cash.

We are indeed heading there and we have seen several companies do adopt crypto and at the same time it do integrate that casual e-fiat transaction.Just like on this list of companies that do accepts bitcoin
https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin/who-accepts/  There are indeed lots and its good to know that Coca Cola is joining the bandwagon now.The more the merrier and if sufficient exposure can be seen then that one would really give out positive impact since it do give out some curiosity which would lead to discovery and might able to end up on adoption or integrating it to their company or services.

Great and more adoption will be done in this year, IMO. By developing more in Lighting network of crypto/Bitcoin will be the alpha of crypto for adopting more by the centralized gaint company. As we need to do micropayments to buy someting , so i think crypto lovers also need to use the lighting network more for this. Thus many other gaint company around the world will adopt crypto-currencies in every sectors of our daily works. let me know what other crypto-lovers think about it.  ;) :D

It is very cool when cryptocurrencies are introduced into everyday life.
I hope that more cooperation will be with the real world.

That was really great information mate, It's was indeed making global adoption more faster. After reading the article looks like centrapay will handle that with QR Code payment sticker and 2000 Vending was big amount for sure, Just need to wait after this integration successful and the rest will follow, Looking forward to see another news like this.

More and more products that accept crypto are a reality where cryptocurrency becomes useful. Adoption, we will see further developments and progress.

It's a step of Giant for cryptos to be largely adopted by those big players in the market. But let's think about:
- Covid crisis and the urgent need for a cashless system so those big campagnies can continue progress of their businesses.
- Centralised cryptocurrencies that are mainly controlled by one or more entity which can limit this adoption to just one or two crytos. In the same field, i may think about facebook coin called Libra which is not a cryptocurrency rather than a currency adopted by many giant campanies, which i can also guess it will orient users to adopt its kind.

In a wolrd of centralised governments, the essential element to note that cryptos are widely adopted is when it is legalised by Govs so people who start using it won't find themselves breacking rules of the country where they live. Until that will happen, we can't yet admit that cryptos are ADOPTED widely .

I was thinking what all cryptocurrency they are planning to accept and there is nothing in the article you posted about the coins they will be accepting because cryptocurrency is a broader term and every shit coins to tokens can be termed as a cryptocurrency and it would be better if they accept top coins in the market.

I hope we will see more adoption in the next decade from different industry.

Yuup Cheer up cokeheads, we're almost there where the prices are going up like crazy. 
Its time their merchant system should be integrated into more businesses to start reopening again with cashless payment in mind.  Its time government lift the restrictions of cryptocurrencies so that merchant systems like of Centrapay will enable businesses to adopt epayment and avoid physical contact.

This is huge and certainly the kind of news that we all want. Coca-Cola is one of the biggest brands in the world and available in almost every country of the world. With its acceptance of cryptocurrencies as a means of payment, we might just be seeing a full scale cryptocurrency adoption like we have always wanted for a long time. Hopefully, this news get to pull more businesses to start considering cryptocurrency for usage.

The news got more media coverage than necessary, that he was talking about a Vending machine across Australia & New Zealand and not being adopted by Coca-Cola itself. It happened with an agreement between Coca-Cola Amatil and digital asset integrator Centrapay.
Does anyone know the obligatory reason for using  Sylo Smart Wallet.?

Yes, it got more attention since Coca-cola is very popular but it is not the Main headquarters that is located at United States is doing this partnership. But still, Coca-Cola Amatil making it happen is a great achievement for the crypto community. It seems you are correct upon reading the blog I also search some in google looks like they can only use the Sylo Smart Wallet to interact with those vending machines, I have encountered this project before but it seems they have poor reviews on playstore. I have a chat on their admin in telegram they said KYC is not required to use the wallet.

crypto is slowly emerging.. slowly but surely.. most of the big companies around the world starting to accept crypto as payment system.. hoping more to come in the future

It is actually a really good news, but the article doesn't mention which coin will be used (or i missed it. Just skimmed through it when it started to talk about the virus). I doubt it is going to be bitcoin. Would be stupid to wait for like 3-5 mins (and more than an hour during heavy load or pay ridiculous fee) in front of the vending machine for just a soda.
Highly likely they are going to use some altcoin.

That's a good one for these companies to get involve into cryptocurrency is a giant step to global adoption, with this adoption, a new world of cashless policy will be recreated through cryptocurrency. Before we over happy, how about the coins they intend to accept? Hope not some random shittcoins flying around the world of cryptocurrency. Such a company should be mindful of the type of coins they will accept for payment, accept the top coins should be their priority which will help the crypto industry than to accept some fraudulent coins.

that's good news friend. but do you think this is related to COVID? I mean about the adoption of cryptoqurrency? I see millions of people starting to look for jobs online, especially about crypto. there are many people starting to be enthusiastic about crypto and even some large companies began to take part in the blockchain field.

whatt, this is insain guys.
the Bigbrand like Cocacola join cryptocurrency, the future more and more closer and maybe next Pepsie will join to.
i am waiting for that moment when the money is not having a physic and just a digit in wallet.
we can use it too everywhere in every country in anyplace, the future moment we will see.

Is centrapay the same project that had an ico like 2 3 years back but it was charged by some US authorities and perhaps it was closed down i am not sure but the name is exactly the same.
Regarding the acceptance of crypto, i think market is on the move and now we should regularly hear such news and no doubt we are slowly moving towards mass adoption.

That was exciting to see that more Big companies are having their interest to use crypto and blockchain technology with their system. This will also drag more establishments and companies to adopt as well. The growing numbers of people who have trusted Bitcoin will simply imply that cryptocurrency is building more confidence and has a very satisfying market performance and people had also realized the importance of this technology, especially during this time. If we all got this, it brings crypto to lead over fiat money.

The growth of adoption like this is very real and will definitely continue to happen over time and this is also a proof that if there is no doubt to have crypto, prices that are very unstable so far continue to be a problem and concern but if adoption like it continues to grow then we will get bigger changes that are even better in the future.

it's good news for the future of cryptocurrencies, though it's a little late for coca-cola because many large companies have joined the cryptocurrency since a few years ago..

more and more companies are joining cryptocurrencies, this is what will happen in the future!!  the trend will lead to it.  in fact, many companies have studied cryptocurrency but they still obey government rules and wait for the right time..

I have faith, when the world economy is in uncertainty, investors will continue to come to invest in the cryptocurrency market and merchants accept crypto as a means of payment. Eventually large companies will accept crypto and this makes the public enthusiastic to invest and make the crypto market bigger

Oh that's cool! I wish they will also bring this more advance vending manchines in the Philippine market. I think that would be a good idea since Coca cola is the leading brand of softdrink here in our country (just my honest opinion, I really love its taste compare to others). If ever happened, for sure many Filipinos will become aware of bitcoin and in that case their company will be the first who will feel the effect once they did their first adoptions. It's a win-win situation, right? :)

Wow, that's awesome, I guess the massive adoption for crypto is real and we can even buy everything uses cryptocurrency in the future. The real adoption for cryptocurrency is real.

Imagine when we can buy use of crypto in various stores. Bitcoin can worth 1 million dollars for each.

What can you say about Sylo Smart Wallet? Never heard about this wallet. Would be interesting to know, why the company choose that wallet over others? Why not use Trust Wallet, it is far more popular.

As I udnerstand Sylo Smart Wallet has a built in fiat to crypto convertor. Seems that users need to pass KYC, everywhere where fiat is used. I'm sure they will lose some clients/users because of that.

Correct adoptions is now happening and applied little by little to the most of the well know companies in the entire world.
This shows that the cryptocurrency or bitcoin is becoming popular at this age of generations, isn't right?
I wish all coca cola branches in the entire world will do that.

A great signal for this market. Big companies in the world are taking cryptocurrencies very seriously, and in the next 1-2 years we will see cryptocurrency everywhere. Buy it now before it's too late, the bull is coming very close

I think that it comes from the 3rd party and centrapay is the main party who has made such good cooperation to make crypto can be used even to purchase on vending machine. I think more adoption will come soon as some big companies have already prepared to adopt crypto.

adoption is real as the usage is expanding fast. here in my country, we can already pay almost all types of bills via btc payment. but still lacking actual btc payment in stores or shops. i am looking forward for the time that even supermarkets will accept crypto as everyone goes to supermarket to buy their food. if crypto can penetrate big supermarkets, that will drive massive adoption.

Until now I am still waiting Libra of Facebook. If this project can run this year, I believe bull run will begin. Crypto is getting more popular every day and they will definitely implement it soon

Libra don't look like a crypto-currency with full decentralized system because of the centralized controls mechanism. From the whitepaper of Libra, only selected company/partners can participate in the networks and other public can't maintain/join in nodes of libra which make its more centralized than the Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies because anyone can take part in the bitcoin's network by setting up the nodes in his/her own. When it's come about libra , only selected ones can take part. So, we should not think about it more.( Recently, Libra announced a new brand named "Navi" as a part of libra's wallet ) But it's really great for the Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.  ;) :D

I think the Coca-Cola company made the right decision. In addition, adoption of crypto like this is likely to have a positive impact on the market situation. and I hope some other big companies can join the blokchain industry.

This is good news for the cryptocurrency market, so people will know more about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
Coca-Cola is a big and influential company all over the world, I think after the actions of Coca-Cola many big companies will re-evaluate the cryptocurrency market and participate in it.

This definitely will change the perception of those who are still skeptical about cryptocurrency that it will one day disappear. They should know that crypto has come to stay. We are now moving towards adoption and those of us hodling certain valuable and utility tokens will be marked as early adopters. Coca cola is a big establishment, and showing such adoption of crypto is a strong signal of better days for the crypto industry. I applaud the move.

Even in my country i saw some petrol stations and retail outlests with the card board displaying 'Bitcoin is accepted here' but soon after the state bank made an announcement that all coins are not legal and are not allowed to trade officially, i think government needs to come up with policy and rules regarding crypto so that this tremendous tech can get popular and adopted soon.

This is nice and I’m sure if this thing succeed Pepsi will follow since those who do that adopt the technology will be left out behind. Those countries are really cryptofriendly, I wish to have a Vending machine where you can easily use cryptocurrency to pay for it, it would be nice to just scan the QR code and you’ll good to go.

Any cryptocurrency is fine as long as big companies adopt, I’m sure bitcoin will be on the top list.

i never used Sylo Smart wallet or another payment gateway bassed on blockchain, as i know when we use payment gateway we must pay fee, and do you all are have the same think with me, i think maybe the price are growing up than we used Fiat or other method to buy coke because we must pay the, CMIIW because i never used vending machine  ;D

yes, mass adoption in cryptocurrency is on its way
and people who already know about cryptocurrency are in the right line,,

It's also we are in the correct time too. The early adopters will always be winning the game as when this ecosystem being adopted by more and more companies and countries.

It looks like we should spend more to keep crypto as our long term investment too.

when more crypto is used by large companies it makes us understand that nowadays big companies have begun to understand that crypto is very useful. crypto adoption will be even greater, crypto technology and blockchain will develop rapidly. as you say, it seems like we have to invest for the long term.

Great news!!! Finally we see the start of a change that we desired.Adoption is something we all knew will happen sooner or later.Nearly 2000 vending machine of coca cola will accept crypto as payment.Amazon has started accepting crypto as payment in many countries.These are one of the biggest names in their respective fields and if these companies started this initiative than it will influence many more to join.Many governments are lifting ban on crypto and some legalizing crypto so yes now we can say we are heading in a right direction.

wow this is very interesting information, even in the scope of cryptocurrency I think this is indeed what is called the development of an era and now it's technology that makes it very important as it is.

I bet you 90% of the guys posting in here wouldn't even know how to use their crypto to buy things at vending machines. This news was in the Bitcoin section already and there are 3 companies, it's using about 4 NZ dollars worth of Bitcoin, and it needs Sylo Wallet. Bet all the guys who keep saying good news about stuff like this don't ever use Bitcoin:P

Finally a day I can buy a can of cola with cryptocurrencies. But weird that cola partnership with very strange name Sylo Smart Wallet instead of other popular wallets. Pardon but I never hear about this one.

Thats a good news, more adoption means more people to become aware of crypto existence.

Im looking forward for our country to have the same improvement about digital currency so it wont be hard to spend our crypto in a daily basis since thats the main purpose why crypto (particularly btc) was created.

Yeah not only  that there are actually a lot more. There are some debit card that is crypto integrated which is partners with some known retails outlets or known establishments that accepts crypto payments. Slow but surely, more and more countries are now adoptiing this kind of system that will eventually good for the community

Living with crypto is getting real everyday. Now we can book flights and Hotels with crypto. By taxi credits and supermarket gift cards with crypto. And now you can even a bottle of coca cola with crypto. Hope this would spread around the world so that people would be familiar to crypto and find out why it stands out from every other payment gateways.

It looks like that's a new wallet. The fact that if the partnership that has already done by a party that I never heard about that before. it's better for us to see what will be happening with the implementation of this partnership whether it will be giving a good result or not.

http://Amazing it was another achievement of the cryptocurrency adaptation, I hope it will continue to spread not just in Australia and New Zealand but to the other parts of the world including my country. Although that Bitcoin and some other cryptocurrencies are accepted in some establishments, still it was just a small part of the wide array of products and services that needs to be included in cryptocurrency adaptation.