although it is a good news for cryptocurrency user, I think I won't try this because it still better if I use fiat to buy a coffee in the Starbucks and besides that, I think I will buy in the other coffee shop because, for me, Starbucks is expensive and compare with the other coffee shop, I think the taste is the same with Starbucks. I think if there a big mall that accepting cryptocurrency as their payment, then it will be good enough for us so we can buy our daily needs using cryptocurrency for the payment.

I do not think buy a cup of coffee with ETH. Because if we buy a cup of coffee we will have to transfer ETH to Starbucks' wallet. And at the expense of transferring money, I think we would lose a lot of money if we drink coffee every day

Very well said mate. It is not the bitcoin itself that are accepted because if it so then we don’t need to use gift card just to buy a cup of coffee or a frappes from starbucks. Same as paying bills, in my country we have this local wallet that we can use to pay bills but we still need to convert our bitcoins into cash before we can make a transactions. I guess its hard yet to adapt a currency that are volatile and that in the near future many establishments like shops, restaurants and etc that will accepts cryptocurrencies itself as payments.

It's a good news to hear. "Cryptocurrencies Accepted" signs in every Starbucks can bring more people to cryptocurrencies world.

Is this true, if yes this is interesting news to follow.
I would definitely support this project if this is true, starbucks is a great company that is famous all over the world.

I thought that is going to be the direct from the Starbucks but looks like this is middle way around it. Crypt projects are getting better at what we are missing in the filed really and that is good thing to know this ICO has started something bigger. However we really need technology that can focus more on direct payments with the merchandise around the globe. The same way as we see it for the different visa and MasterCard companies or even banking system. That would be more revolutionary mate and nothing else. But all the best for them too as it is giving us temporary way to spend our cyrptos.

This is very good news for the whole sector. The growth of the cryptocurrency market will depend in the coming months/years also on the diffusion and use of cryptocurrencies in everyday life, and I hope that more and more companies like Starbucks, allow their customers to use cryptocurrencies to buy products and services

That's a very amazing news for more positive issues of the cryptocurrency. We all know that Starbucks is one of the most popular industries in the world. If this becomes one of the industries that accept crypto, it means that many more industries support the presence of the crypto. Of course, this issues brings good thinking. Hopefully, this news is true by the official.

After KFC for this time starbucks also receive bitcoin payment, but very in pity only applies in certain countries. Not all countries can accept bitcoin as payment.

I know about the zeex. But they are still not in the fully operational mode yet. They are also having services where they are going to list the amazon, eBay and other shopping sites for which you will get the gift cards. This is perfect opportunity for us to use the crypto currency that we hold in the way we want. Whether or not it will work 100% but the project does look good to me and will receive huge response from the community that is for sure.

Wondering how they will collaborate with all the merchandise world wide to give us the crypto to real world certificates. The project insights should be studied for this one.

I think this is just a gimmick. No one mall will accept crypto currencies with uncertain prices. This is a very risky behavior. For a company like Starbucks, it needs a stable profit.

wow thats a godd news, congratulations for zeex holder, hope this good news can bring market up again, im tired seing my portofolio in red.

In some cash-free countries, Starbucks has long been trying cashless payment methods, but the cryptocurrency is currently very unstable, and I can't imagine whether Starbucks can calculate its profit accurately after accepting the cryptocurrency.

The news is good indeed, but it is not the same with what the thread name says. To pay with cryptocurrencies one would still need to buy a gift card first and then buy other things with the help of this card. This means that cryptos are used indirectly and this distance doesn't allow them to be really considered as means of payment. This is a good project, but such solution can't be final. Moreover, I seem to find to proofs that Zeex actually has all those partners and deals (this info is only going from the zeex team, not from those big companies).

You're right about that, but what I'm talking about is how every time some company mentions adopting crypto as a payment method, everyone goes like "wow".
it's just the company gaining media attention, do you think people wouldn't buy coffee from Starbucks if they didn't take crypto?

What I'm saying is just that there's too much focus on individual companies adopting crypto, because that's not going to work out long term. Things like this post is basically just giving the company what they want, more media attention. They run a business and they are talking about crypto to get publicity, just as any other company talking about crypto in any way which leads to their stocks going up.
Crypto payments needs to become an important medium, based on aspects such as being trustless, cheap, fast, global, no central entity and so on, not because it just allows people to buy coffee with money they put in Coinbase, because what difference does it make then? do you want crypto because you can use it to buy coffee or because of what it stands for?

That's what I'm trying to say. Yes, certainly, there's nothing bad coming from Starbucks adding this, but I think this announcement receives too much focus, considering what it is.
They're doing it because they can possibly get more customers from it, and because it gives them publicity, which you can see in tons of other companies talking about crypto = company valuation goes up.
It's not about having some big companies accept crypto as a payment, there's plenty of mediums and gateways and alternatives that are faster, could be anonymous, could be cheaper (in transaction fees).
Crypto to me is either it's all in or nothing, or do you only see Bitcoin as something you can use to buy coffee with, nothing more? If so, I understand your excitement, but in my book, it's far more than one new currency, if anything, it's the new currency - and the reason for that isn't because of individual companies adding the payment method, the reason is the nature of crypto, which is made possible by the blockchain.

To summarize, [company name] adding crypto as a payment method is minor sidegoals in comparison to what we should hope to achieve, and it's not negative, but neither is it something that is worth talking about. They are doing it for their gain, why is that interesting? Do you doubt the potential of crypto, and therefore this is interesting?

No my point is quite the contrary. Why don't they implement a solution where you and I can buy directly with crypto, without any sort of intermediary? What's preventing them to do so?

I think it's silly that people get excited because 'Starbucks is accepting Crypto'?
Who cares? The potential of crypto is far beyond buying coffee, and the future and big money won't be coming from people buying coffee!
There are very interesting blockchain-based projects, that might actually change global industries entirely.
Either crypto succeeds and is adopted everywhere, not one 'brandname' at a time, or it fails.

There's already been cases of companies adopting crypto payments, bitcoin payments specifically, and then removing it.
This is just marketing for Starbucks to a surge of customers.
Adopt crypto, and then every crypto holder suddenly needs a cup of coffee..

Buying gift cards with crypto? I honestly fail to see the importance of this.
If all that came from crypto is an alternative payment method, then we failed with one of the greatest technological inventions.

I think it's silly that people get excited because 'Starbucks is accepting Crypto'?
Who cares? The potential of crypto is far beyond buying coffee, and the future and big money won't be coming from people buying coffee!
There are very interesting blockchain-based projects, that might actually change global industries entirely.
Either crypto succeeds and is adopted everywhere, not one 'brandname' at a time, or it fails.

There's already been cases of companies adopting crypto payments, bitcoin payments specifically, and then removing it.
This is just marketing for Starbucks to a surge of customers.
Adopt crypto, and then every crypto holder suddenly needs a cup of coffee..

This is something interesting and i believe it will benefit crypto in many ways, additionally Starbucks is such a big giant corporation in the world with them joining the crypto crowd also crypto definitely have a bright future. 

what a news, i cant wait especially for the apps. Lets hope it wont just apply in starbucks on the US only. But im pretty sure they will release it for every starbucks around the world, evenless in a country with a large cryptocurrency community. Blockchain now will go spread all around the world guys