BitGreet Allows Users To Directly Gift Each Other Bitcoin

By December 26, 2015Bitcoin Business

A BitGreet alliance lets its clients add Bitcoin to special Christmas e-cards. Now people are able to send Bitcoins with those cards just as easily as they would do with fiat money in an envelope. A pleasant surprise for holiday season, isn’t it? Is there a chance to lose money?

The service is backed by CoinCorner , a Bitcoin exchange, located on the Isle of Man . It was launched last Christmas—according to co-founder Daniel Scott—about a 1,000 cards were delivered over the holiday season.

The mechanism of the service is very simple. You just need to choose a card design at BitGreet’s web site and then add any amount of Bitcoins you want. That’s all! You can send it via e-mail. Also, you don’t even have to be one of CoinCorner’s clients to do so. BitGreet vs. Gyft: What’s the Difference? At first sight BitGreet’s service looks similar to other gift card services, such as Gyft and others previously mentioned on CoinTelegraph . But if you dig deeper, you’ll see the obvious difference. Gyft and other similar services allow buying gift cards for Bitcoins. That means you can buy cards for making purchases in particular stores.

Gyft and other gift card services allow buying cards for most of the major retailers, including eBay , Amazon and others, offering lots of bonuses for those who use BitcoinCT r: 11 . Gyft awards its new users with $5 for free. Bitcoin purchases are also awarded with a 3% discount. But if you buy, for example, a gift card for eBay, you will not be able to use it with any other retailer.

Meanwhile, BitGreet offers you a chance to send any amount of Bitcoin directly to the person you want. And that person will be able to use it with any store that accepts […]

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