[2015-07-19] A bit of a change: Retailers banking on virtual money

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When customers visit David Ayyash’s ChickPea in the D restaurant downtown, instead of pulling out a credit card or dollar bills, they can pay with a completely digital currency that’s not backed by any bank or government: Bitcoin.

Ayyash takes a customer’s payment by generating a code from his tablet, then shows it to the customer before scanning it. The customer then sends the payment over to Ayyash electronically, not from his credit card or PayPal account, but from his cache of bitcoins.

Ayyash started accepting Bitcoin in early June to offer his customers more payment options as well as to “make customers happy.”


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I'm very glad to hear that people are accepting Bitcoins more and more! It makes my day I hope banks and currencies worldwide backed by politicians and governments don't work forever we don't need their money we need Bitcoin!