Burger King to Accept Bitcoin in Russia This Summer

[andreevavik22]

Russian Burger King restaurants are due to start accepting Bitcoin as a payment method this summer, reports state on Wednesday.

According to local news resources, a Moscow branch of the burger chain has started piloting Bitcoin payments, with officials now confirming a nationwide rollout.

Uznay Vse states the unnamed branch accepted a Bitcoin transaction on Tuesday this week, which represents “the first official reports of Bitcoin payments for goods and services in Russia.”

Burger King has also begun the hunt for an IT professional able to implement the relevant software.

“Several programs need to be written which will allow restaurant tills to speak to the Android and iOS apps and allow customers to pay with cryptocurrency,” Uznay Vse continues.

Russia is becoming an increasingly pro-crypto environment this year, with Finance Ministry deputy Alexey Moiseev saying this week that such currencies may be legally traded on exchanges if subject to “appropriate regulations.”

It's interesting and amazingly for me. What do you think about?

[mjglqw]

Good news once again. This will bring decent publicity to bitcoin. I hope they show somethint like "now accepts bitcoin" or something along those lines on their commercials thought. Only one can wish.

[kateryna.oliinyk]

will we have to wait 30min for confimations? or pay 2$ fee for a 3$ burger?
Why Burger King and not McD's?

[Rmcdermott927]

Hopefully they use this as a test case and decide to accept Bitcoin in other countries is this is a success. The biggest obstacle is gettin segwit activated so we don't pay a $2 fee on a $5 burger.

[GreyWyvern]

Yesh, I don't see how the current high Tx times and transaction fees can make this sort of thing convenient and/or economical. It sounds like a publicity stunt to me.

Hopefully things change after SegWit2x.

[katepagava]

this is really huge step forward, but I am not sure will it last long