KFC Canada Is Accepting Bitcoin for Fried Chicken

[Hans17]

Its good initiative by KFC, Now even there small bucket of fried chicken will give more returns from last fiscal year


Fried chicken chain KFC Canada is accepting bitcoin – for a limited time and for a cryptocurrency-themed bucket of chicken, that is.

The limited-time marketing move sees the Canada-based chain advertising "The Bitcoin Bucket" complete with a Facebook-based live-tracker of the standing price for the product, which works out to roughly 20 Canadian dollars depending on the exchange rate with bitcoin.

That said, you can't exactly walk into a KFC location in Canada and pay with crypto at the cash register.

Instead, the company is accepting Bitcoin via BitPay as one of the options through an online check-out page. The Bitcoin Bucket will be delivered directly to the customer's address (the product also carries a $5 fee), according to the check-out process on its website.



https://www.coindesk.com/kfc-canada-is-accepting-bitcoin-for-fried-chicken/

What a great news , a great idea and also great thread , it's good to hear that our dear bitcoin is gaining more and more popularity which opens up a lot of opportunities , still doing a basic search regarding this news.

[paul00]

If this would happen in all country all kfc branch will accept bitcoin as a payment method this will be a time that the value of bitcoin will rise. But I don't think buying food in lieu of bitcoin is not a wise idea because we all know that bitcoin vaue is not stable and maybe in future the price of 1 bucket of chicken today in bitcoin vs the price of 5 bucket in future might be equal price in terms of bitcoin.

[shindymlk]

nice marketing, i really like it, bitcoin accepted for payment fried chicken at KFC Canada
Someday i hope my country can do that, like Canada. more easy using bitcoin as payment offline

[An0nyMoose]

KFC Canada is doing marketing for KFC and for Bitcoin.

I want to pay for KFC using bitcoin but I don't live in Canada. More places should do this.

[Lyd]

KFC just got big in my eyes for doing this, I can not wait for more companies to accept bitcoin as a payment method. We want to get at that point with bitcoin

[traderethereum]

I think if this program is succeeded, then I am sure that many food companies will use bitcoin too like what KFC did and this will help bitcoin to be spread in many countries. besides that, I am sure that this news will make another company studied about bitcoin and if they can get the benefits from bitcoin for their company then they will apply and use bitcoin for their company and their user.

[hinterland]

If true that is awesome, just for the media spread if nothing else. Not many people will actually buy kfc with BTC, but makes people more aware of it.

[abhishek_bittu]

The move to Bitcoin might seem surprising from KFC, but the company has been looking for ways to flip buzzy tech into a viral hit recently—last year the company released a Bioshock-esque virtual reality game to train employees and a Faraday cage.

KFC Canada has been leaning into the cryptocurrency memes. “Another big rise in Bitcoin,” one tweet from Thursday read, “Hodl for the dip,” referencing a cryptocurrency in-joke. “If Satoshi reveals his true identity, his bucket is on us,” another tweet stated, referring to Bitcoin’s anonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto.

It’s an interesting time to be accepting Bitcoin as payment, mostly because Bitcoin can be really expensive to send (the average fee people are paying is just under $30), and because it’s so valuable, increasingly fewer people want to trade it for things like fried chicken. Nobody wants to be that guy who spent a ton of Bitcoin on two pizzas years ago, which would be worth millions of dollars today.

[DdmrDdmr]

It's good news, we need to start to have many more real life cases where crypto is used in the real world. For it to become mainstream though it will still take a while for we need supportive and ripe technology (no problems with TX price and speed), aswell as a fairly stable value for crypto (no bussiness will go deep into accepting crypto for long if crypto price fluctuation is not stable).

[emmybd]

It is indeed a very good initiative, as bitcoin is here to stay and it is going strong with each passing day. Many financial institutions and shopping malls have already started accepting bitcoin and the number is growing with each passing day.

[Newboybb]

This is clearly a good news, this means that the bitcoin has been more and more people know, but now use the bitcoin for payment is still not too realistic, The KFC should need to wait for a long time will only receive the bitcoinBTC.

[Crystacool]

Its good initiative by KFC, Now even there small bucket of fried chicken will give more returns from last fiscal year


Fried chicken chain KFC Canada is accepting bitcoin – for a limited time and for a cryptocurrency-themed bucket of chicken, that is.

The limited-time marketing move sees the Canada-based chain advertising "The Bitcoin Bucket" complete with a Facebook-based live-tracker of the standing price for the product, which works out to roughly 20 Canadian dollars depending on the exchange rate with bitcoin.

That said, you can't exactly walk into a KFC location in Canada and pay with crypto at the cash register.

Instead, the company is accepting Bitcoin via BitPay as one of the options through an online check-out page. The Bitcoin Bucket will be delivered directly to the customer's address (the product also carries a $5 fee), according to the check-out process on its website.



https://www.coindesk.com/kfc-canada-is-accepting-bitcoin-for-fried-chicken/

This is good news for bitcoin, which is just a good start. In the future, more and more chain stores will accept bitcoin. In the future, all stores will accept bitcoin. KFC in Canada made a good start.

[Selbit]

I really love hearing news about bitcoin the other company is starting to tie up with bitcoins. Good news to hear. The more comoany will partner bitcoin it means thay botcoin will be successful soonest.

[kriticko29]

Its good initiative by KFC, Now even there small bucket of fried chicken will give more returns from last fiscal year


Fried chicken chain KFC Canada is accepting bitcoin – for a limited time and for a cryptocurrency-themed bucket of chicken, that is.

The limited-time marketing move sees the Canada-based chain advertising "The Bitcoin Bucket" complete with a Facebook-based live-tracker of the standing price for the product, which works out to roughly 20 Canadian dollars depending on the exchange rate with bitcoin.

That said, you can't exactly walk into a KFC location in Canada and pay with crypto at the cash register.

Instead, the company is accepting Bitcoin via BitPay as one of the options through an online check-out page. The Bitcoin Bucket will be delivered directly to the customer's address (the product also carries a $5 fee), according to the check-out process on its website.



https://www.coindesk.com/kfc-canada-is-accepting-bitcoin-for-fried-chicken/

It would be great and handy for someone because they can now eat and travel around the globe without bringing so much money for accommodation. But the thing that can be a problem is that the security of the method of payment for the service as well as the fast changes in the price of bitcoin. Many would still hold bitcoin due to the probability of it growing in a short span of time.

[Kprawn]

If I understand this correctly, this was just a trial run and not something permanent. I am very curious what the end result

of this experiment was. If you believe the Reddit comments, then this was a huge success, but I have no way to validate

these comments. Can someone in Canada approach them to find out if they are going to do this again and if it was a

successful experiment? {Most people are saying it was a publicity stunt?} 

[Abete]

Wow, this is great news! Things like this might be the future of currency all over the world and will totally change everything in regards to payment methods.

this step is the answer of progress, KFC I think very aware of the progress of crypto. these steps should be followed by other franchises. It may be McD, Starbucks or something similar.

[AgentZero23]

Wow this is good. I hope the likes of McDonald's, Starbucks and etc would follow. I think this is only a test run only. Hope KFC would implement it.

[thirdprize]

Bitpay accepts BTC.  KFC uses Bitpay.  KFC probably get it converts into $ straight away and Bitpay keeps the BTC.

[Baimovic]

Its good initiative by KFC, Now even there small bucket of fried chicken will give more returns from last fiscal year


Fried chicken chain KFC Canada is accepting bitcoin – for a limited time and for a cryptocurrency-themed bucket of chicken, that is.

The limited-time marketing move sees the Canada-based chain advertising "The Bitcoin Bucket" complete with a Facebook-based live-tracker of the standing price for the product, which works out to roughly 20 Canadian dollars depending on the exchange rate with bitcoin.

That said, you can't exactly walk into a KFC location in Canada and pay with crypto at the cash register.

Instead, the company is accepting Bitcoin via BitPay as one of the options through an online check-out page. The Bitcoin Bucket will be delivered directly to the customer's address (the product also carries a $5 fee), according to the check-out process on its website.



https://www.coindesk.com/kfc-canada-is-accepting-bitcoin-for-fried-chicken/

yesterday i heard kanada had received a coffee payment with bitcoin, and today KFC fried chicken. extraordinary.

very interesting, I think kanada will be the first country to make bitcoin as a means of transaction, then follow japan.

intense competition between japan and canada. your predictoin, Which countries adopt more bitcoin ?

[iamlds08]

Its good initiative by KFC, Now even there small bucket of fried chicken will give more returns from last fiscal year


Fried chicken chain KFC Canada is accepting bitcoin – for a limited time and for a cryptocurrency-themed bucket of chicken, that is.

The limited-time marketing move sees the Canada-based chain advertising "The Bitcoin Bucket" complete with a Facebook-based live-tracker of the standing price for the product, which works out to roughly 20 Canadian dollars depending on the exchange rate with bitcoin.

That said, you can't exactly walk into a KFC location in Canada and pay with crypto at the cash register.

Instead, the company is accepting Bitcoin via BitPay as one of the options through an online check-out page. The Bitcoin Bucket will be delivered directly to the customer's address (the product also carries a $5 fee), according to the check-out process on its website.



https://www.coindesk.com/kfc-canada-is-accepting-bitcoin-for-fried-chicken/

this is a good headstart to commercialize bitcoin as a mode of payment a currency.
this is a great progress for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
a great publicity indeed