Bitcoin holders can love it at a McDonald’s location in this country that now accepts crypto – Bitcoin (BTC/USD)
One location of a leading fast food restaurant company has begun accepting Bitcoin for in-store payments. Here are the details.
What happened: ONE McDonald’s Inc MCD location in the city Lugano, Switzerland accept now Bitcoin BTC/USD as a payment option. The news comes while the crypto community has been rallying for years for the restaurant company to accept cryptocurrency such as Dogecoin DOGE/USD in all places.
A video shared of Bitcoin Magazine has more than 430,000 views on Twitter showing a customer paying with Bitcoin at a location in Lugano, which has a population of around 60,000.
� Paying at McDonald’s with #Bitcoin in Lugano, Switzerland. pic.twitter.com/8IdcupEEKQ
— Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) 3 October 2022
The video shows a customer ordering via a kiosk, getting a printed receipt and paying by scanning a QR code generated by the cashier. The receipt shows GoCryptothe name of a leading global crypto and card payment infrastructure company.
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Why it’s important: As highlighted by CoinTelegraph, the city of Lugano is one of the most cryptocurrency-friendly in the region. The city has signed an agreement with Tether USDT/USD to launch several initiatives to fund crypto startups and crypto adoption by local businesses.
Lugano residents can also pay their taxes using cryptocurrency with payments for parking tickets and public services using cryptocurrency coming soon. More than 200 different businesses in the region are expected to allow cryptocurrency payments.
This McDonald’s location is now on the list of restaurants and businesses that accept Bitcoin as a payment option.
While McDonald’s does not accept cryptocurrency for payment globally, they do have locations in several countries that use third-party options to accept cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin as a payment option. All McDonald’s locations in El Salvador, a country that made Bitcoin legal tender, accept the leading cryptocurrency as a form of payment.
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. CMG uses Flexa to accept cryptocurrency as a payment option at locations and has launched crypto-themed campaigns, as other restaurants have.
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