Making Bitcoin Real: Portsmouth, N. H., Businesses Begin Accepting BTC

By August 26, 2016Bitcoin Business

Another establishment has begun accepting Bitcoin as payment in what is fast becoming one of the most Bitcoin-centric towns in the United States. Street, a posh restaurant featuring food inspired from around the globe, began accepting Bitcoin earlier this month. The integration came as a result of outreach by Steven Zeiler , a local software developer and Bitcoin evangelist, who has also succeeded in getting a local yoga studio he frequents to take Bitcoin. Matt Carano, owner of The Music Class (which also takes Bitcoin) and former owner of the Pão Cafe, one of the first restaurants in New Hampshire to take Bitcoin and appreciates the ability to use Bitcoin locally, not just through online transactions. Carano says to CoinTelegraph: “I love that we are starting to see a real Bitcoin presence around the Seacoast region, from brick and mortar retail businesses to service providers. It used to be that Bitcoin commerce pretty much only happened online. I enjoy the more personal aspect of local community adoption, because every time I transact with someone locally in Bitcoin, it reinforces that there are people living nearby who share my values.” The Free State Project’s role in New Hampshire’s Bitcoin community According to Mike Vine, technology evangelist for the Blockchain-based content-sharing platform LBRY , New Hampshire’s vibrant Bitcoin scene can be traced back to the Free State Project involvement. Vine explains: “The Free State Project brought a critical mass of liberty lovers together in a small area and thereby made it possible for us to form a viable community for the first time. One of the many happy byproducts of that process has been the growth of a cryptocurrency haven where you’re surrounded by people who understand the potential of crypto and the adoption has steadily increased for years. FSP activists […]

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