You won’t be able to spend your cryptocurrency in Starbucks anytime soon

2018-8-6 15:01

No, you won’t be able to spend your cryptocurrency at Starbucks. Last Friday, Starbucks announced that it would be joining and supporting a project known as Bakkt. If successful, Bakkt will leverage Microsoft’s cloud solutions – probably their blockchain based Azure platform – to create an infrastructure for managing and using digital assets.

And get this, they say it will be regulated! Regulated digital assets, whatever next! Where blockchain and cryptocurrency are mentioned, the hype train is never far behind. Naturally, when the words “digital assets” are used, people immediately assumed this would mean we could spend our cryptocurrency on…

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