THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitcoin acceptance is on the acceleration and added and added brands are jumping on the appearance as the appeal for BTC payments grows Elektra a wellknown Mexican retail alternation endemic by billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego has become the aboriginal of its affectionate in the country to acquire bitcoin payments The buyer of the retail and cyberbanking alternation took to Twitter to affirm the account that had been circulating
Yes, Elektra Accepts Bitcoin
Supermarket alternation Elektra has accepted that is now accepting bitcoin payments for all items. This acquittal will be accessible online as able-bodied as at all of the concrete food of the chain. Customers will be able to analysis out application bitcoin and crypto processing account Bitpay, which will action all of the payments on account of the chain.
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Billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego had accepted the affiliation himself on Twitter saying, “The rumors are true. Elektra is the aboriginal (retail) abundance in Mexico that allows you to buy with bitcoin. I’m actual apologetic to exhausted the antagonism again.” The retail alternation is now the aboriginal and alone one of its affectionate anon in Mexico that accepts bitcoin payments for all of its goods.
Elektra is one of the arch retail and cyberbanking chains in Latin America. Its owner, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the third richest man in Mexico, is a articulate bitcoin bull. The billionaire has been articulate about his abutment for the cryptocurrency endless times and has apprenticed investors to put money into the agenda asset. Salinas himself had revealed at one point that he has 10% of his abundance in the cryptocurrency.
To advance the new BTC payments, the bazaar alternation is alms a 20% abatement to all of its barter that pay through bitcoin on some purchases. The abatement will run through the ages of December and will achieve on December 31st.
Supermarket Chains Leading Adoption
Bitcoin as a adjustment of acquittal for appurtenances and casework has been on the acceleration in contempo years. Not aloof bitcoin but crypto payments as a accomplished accept been on the rise.
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Earlier in the month, Croatia’s better bazaar alternation Konzum, announced that its barter could now pay for advantage with bitcoin. The bazaar alternation had appear that although barter could alone pay online application the cryptocurrency, for now, they were alive to accomplish BTC payments accessible at its concrete stores.
Litecoin had surged in amount beforehand in the year back rumors circulated that retail behemothic Walmart would activate accepting payments application the cryptocurrency. The rumors were after debunked by the alternation but the acknowledgment from the bazaar had adumbrated that users were accessible for the giants to activate amalgam crypto payments.
