Starbucks accepting bitcoin

[Jasad]

I have also heard that you can also pay to amazon via ipayyou before and now starbucks. They are pretty new service but already got good achievement which may turn out good for both bitcoin and to them in future. The team behind ipayyou seems to have good business contact to crack this deals. 

yepp they still not yet accept bitcoin directly like what steam did for example ,
i just see here the service offering like a giftcard isn't it?
but the special thing are yo can reload your sbux balance with bitcoin through this service, am i right?
hopefully a lot of merchants coming to accept bitcoin next year!

[gilangIDR]

if this is true then the bitcoin will become increasingly popular. we know this is very much consumer starbucks. they are definitely going to try a new method is easier in the transaction. This moment will increase the deployment of bitcoin.

[morantis]

starbucks has been taking bitcoin here for over a year.  it is strange in the usa, a nationwide company(not individual franchises) having differing policies in different locales.  of course, it seems that all the different payment networks take time to spread out and not just "test market" to full boat, but region to region.

[Rooster101]

Hongkong's starbucks accepts bitcoin payment according to a report and using an app called Fold app. Many companies are now considering the virtual currency as payment and a source of funds and hope that the bitcoin adoption will continue next year. 

[mrkevio]

It's interesting how fast things change, you know.. Starbucks is the biggest café in the world probably, and it accepting Bitcoin might make others interested too but I don't think we'll see much of a change unless they'll make one café ONLY for Bitcoin. Because Starbucks is so popular, the news will be flooded with this piece of news.

[shield132]

It means a lot, it means that bitcoin soon will be payment system in many popular services. I think it won't add them many new customers but it makes payment system more comfortable, but minus is that it will be better if any other wallet's user would be able to pay. So another things is very good. I think they will also accept payfair payment system.

[farhaan]

Thats really a great news. Today, big companies have started realizing that by avoiding bitcoins, they only will be the loosers. It has become inevitable today for companies to accept bitcoins.

[Herbert2020]

it is great to see regular every day businesses are sometimes getting involved with even if it is an indirect involvement with it but it is still helpful to the growth of bitcoin and in the end leading to that mass adoption we are all looking forward to.

[disconnectme]

Good news for Bitcoin, I think they just realise that they can't ignore BTC anymore, hope to see more companies come into frame and embrace BTC

[Zadicar]

This is very a good news that big merchants are already accepting bitcoin as a payment and this is indicating that bitcoin adoption is already spreading throughout the globe and hopefully it would be available in my country so that i could spend my bitcoin without the need of exchanging it to local fiat.

[Juggy777]

Even though , iPayYou doesn't look as good as other services such as Bitpay for example , they managed to make Starbucks accepting bitcoin in their official application and that's definitly an achievement for a new service like them.
In order to use this feature , you first have a wallet in iPayYou otherwise It's not going to work. The next year already sound very promising and I can't wait to see more .

This is one of the best threads I have read in Christmas. I actually can't believe it, that my favorite coffee brand now accepts Bitcoins. This will save my huge coffee bills and make me even drink more coffee. Is the wallet secure though. I haven't used it so wanted to know. Any precautions we need to take and it's applicable in all outlets or selected ones for now.

[BeGoods]

I have also heard that you can also pay to amazon via ipayyou before and now starbucks. They are pretty new service but already got good achievement which may turn out good for both bitcoin and to them in future. The team behind ipayyou seems to have good business contact to crack this deals. 

seems to still have to use a third party to shop using bitcoin, yeah I'm also glad it can be used. but perhaps all users will be happier when they can use bitcoin directly to shop without using a third party service right?

[mastica]

Step by step bitcoin is achieving well know companies, even without we be able to spend them directly, we are able to spend our bitcoin already, something we couldnt in the past. Next year i do expect several more companies to start accept bitcoin, directly or from a third companie, and we can reach the 1000 dollars once again, im excited to see the new version of megaupload working with bitcoins.

[Mometaskers]

Well this is good news. I don't go there but it is certainly a popular company and their adoption would definitely popularize Bitcoin. This is the sort of positive publicity we need after all the hacking incidents in the past. I suppose the company's rivals would follow suit as well as some other big chains there in the US.

[Paninotech]

This is great news for bitcoin even if they are using a third party to handle payments.

[dothebeats]

Already been buying Frappuccino from Starbucks ever since Xapo became available for use here in our country. Not really using it directly as a payment but it still counts right? Also, this new payment method might sound iffy at first upon checking their site, but it's good to know that more and more payment processors are expanding their services for the economy.

[Barbut]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5gIjwN6GN4

This video is from 25.08.2015, and I think I watched some other one with 4 guys in the car. They used gift card, but for me its the same, buying coffee with bitcoins was possible even then.

Well this is good news. I don't go there but it is certainly a popular company and their adoption would definitely popularize Bitcoin. This is the sort of positive publicity we need after all the hacking incidents in the past. I suppose the company's rivals would follow suit as well as some other big chains there in the US.

Starbucks is unavailable in my country, but that doesn`t change the fact that progress of bitcoin is affecting all users. I`m happy for people who can spent some coins for the coffee and get a discount for that, I can just hope that something similar will be available in my country soon, best regards and enjoy in your coffee.

[rapazev]

Already been buying Frappuccino from Starbucks ever since Xapo became available for use here in our country. Not really using it directly as a payment but it still counts right? Also, this new payment method might sound iffy at first upon checking their site, but it's good to know that more and more payment processors are expanding their services for the economy.

same here.
i'm a xapo user and i can pay anything using bitcoin. it's visa and the confirmations comes in a second.

services like xapo, ipayyou, and others will make bitcoin easier to use to these things(like buying a coffe).

[Shenzou]

I think this is a huge step toward the future and a huge for bitcoin users , the problem with bitcoin users these days is that we don't find enough places  to spend directly our hard earned btc without having to exchanging it to fiat which is quit annoying and deifies the purpose of bitcoin, and i think that Starbucks using it as a payment method is a really huge progress and i hope others will do it too.

[Senor.Bla]

We all like to see Businesses accepting Bitcoin. But we need to see if this makes sense. In this case keep in mind that although Starbucks might not offer the cheapest coffee the fee are still comparatively high if you just want a coffee. Let us see how long they will offer this service, because if it will not work out, then they might cancel it and this would be worse for Bitcoin then not being accepted in the first place.