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Quote from: killgald on July 07, 2017, 05:16:10 PM

If they not implement a better way to aproved the payment of it it is really better to use cash or cards, maybe a bitcoin card could be in handy

Bitcoin (debit) cards issued by third party payment processors such as BitPay and Coinbase can be used. But direct payments are not impractical, due to complexities and delays with confirmation. Yesterday, one of my transactions took 3 hrs to confirm, despite paying a fee of 70 Sat/Byte.

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If they not implement a better way to aproved the payment of it it is really better to use cash or cards, maybe a bitcoin card could be in handy

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Good to see this initiative being taken in such a large country. It would be great to see this happening where I live, but it will probably take some time.
Patience is the key.

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Paying that food with bitcoin? No thanks, i prefer using paper for my security.

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Not a good idea, BK doesnt's sells anything worth paying with BTC.

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Quote from: kna on June 28, 2017, 09:58:47 AM

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.”

Source : https://cointelegraph.com/news/burger-king-to-accept-bitcoin-in-russia-this-summer

Wow! thats great news again to us if that happen, however I think there is a little bit problem which I think I saw about the payment of their customer. Isn't the confirmation was always the problem of the bitcoin users. How are gonna reaolve that kind of a problem.

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So in order to buy my $1 dollar menu burger i gotta spend $1 in fees? I wish this would happen in USA, it's still pretty cool that there's a national company that anyone can go to get a product

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If Burger King is going to accept bitcoin then I don't have anything to become glad, I'm not interested in spending bitcoin by eating and shopping. Whatever the case is bitcoin should be reserved for the business and the future purposes. But I'm not going to say that accepting bitcoin by burger king is worse, it's obviously better for getting popular among the people...

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Confirmation time, double spending? how can they deal with it? I don't know these well though

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Quote from: chixka000 on July 01, 2017, 11:37:16 AM

Are they going to mandate all their branches around the world to start accepting bitcoin or they would stay in russia for now? Tho i am excited for this because i am a burger king fan i am kinda afraid to pay more in fees than the burger that i've paid

Just checked with a Russian friend yesterday, and he told me that the Burger King employees in Vernadskogo Avenue have no idea about Bitcoins or the news that BK is going to accept BTC. As usual, it looks like the Coin Telegraph is churning out fake news in order to increase the readership.

As much as Coin Telegraph wants to increase traffic on their site, they should also think about the credibility of their articles. More and more people will continue taking their 'news' less seriously if this trend continues.

Seems like they have been doing this for quite a while. They have become experts in dishing out fake news, and they have been doing this ever since 2014 I think. Please check these outrageous articles from them:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/greece-to-receive-1000-bitcoin-atms-as-trust-in-banks-long-gone

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-to-become-peoples-right-in-china-new-law-proposed

https://cointelegraph.com/news/russia-calls-for-celebration-as-bitcoin-becomes-legal

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I don't this would be a good idea yet. There would be things to consider especially for a bug business like bk when accepting btc as payment. Btc price varies and fluctuates so that means that the prices of the products would sway with btc price. Then there's the transaction time where it's not always that fast. So i don't really think its plausible at the momemt

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Quote from: Sithara007 on July 01, 2017, 11:31:08 PM

Quote from: chixka000 on July 01, 2017, 11:37:16 AM

Are they going to mandate all their branches around the world to start accepting bitcoin or they would stay in russia for now? Tho i am excited for this because i am a burger king fan i am kinda afraid to pay more in fees than the burger that i've paid

Just checked with a Russian friend yesterday, and he told me that the Burger King employees in Vernadskogo Avenue have no idea about Bitcoins or the news that BK is going to accept BTC. As usual, it looks like the Coin Telegraph is churning out fake news in order to increase the readership.

As much as Coin Telegraph wants to increase traffic on their site, they should also think about the credibility of their articles. More and more people will continue taking their 'news' less seriously if this trend continues.

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Quote from: jhenfelipe on July 04, 2017, 08:42:32 PM

I saw this link http://www.uznayvse.ru/news/85865.html on the blog shared by OP - a Russian site, blog entitled "Burger King "will start taking bitcoins in 2017" (I translated it from Russian to English using goohle translate). If it's true, It won't be much of a hassle if they will be using QR code and I think the problem will be the fees and not the confirmation since bitcoin transaction is irreversible. However, if I'm the customer I'd still rather use cash than BTC. Grin

If they accept payments from Coinbase rather than directly accepting BTC payments, then none of these problems will exist. The fee will be low and there will be instant confirmation. And most importantly, getting refunds may also get easier. Since the fee charged by Coinbase (i.e the one payable by Burger King) is higher than the one charged by Visa/Master, they may even give discounts on BTC payments.

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Robots are coming to a burger joint near you

Quote from: http://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/03/28/yum-ceo-robots-could-replace-fast-food-workers-by-mid-2020s.html

Miso Robotics, the inventor of Flippy, has raised $3.1 million in Series A venture funding.

Patent services firm Acacia Research, CaliBurger and Match Robotics VC are investors.

Grilling burgers may be fun on the Fourth of July, but less so if hot grease is your daily grind.

Enter Miso Robotics. The southern California start-up has built a robotic "kitchen assistant" called Flippy to do the hot, greasy and repetitive work of a fry cook. Flippy employs machine learning and computer vision to identify patties on a grill, track them as they cook, flip and then place them on a bun when they're done.

Miso is part of a budding kitchen automation industry. Its peers include Zume Pizza, Cafe X, Makr Shakr, Frobot and Sally, which are developing robots to help commercial kitchens churn out pizzas, lattes, cocktails, frozen yogurt, and salads.

Read more at http://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/03/28/yum-ceo-robots-could-replace-fast-food-workers-by-mid-2020s.html.

Cool

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I saw this link http://www.uznayvse.ru/news/85865.html on the blog shared by OP - a Russian site, blog entitled "Burger King "will start taking bitcoins in 2017" (I translated it from Russian to English using goohle translate). If it's true, It won't be much of a hassle if they will be using QR code and I think the problem will be the fees and not the confirmation since bitcoin transaction is irreversible. However, if I'm the customer I'd still rather use cash than BTC. Grin

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Quote from: Lancusters on July 02, 2017, 05:40:43 AM

Quote from: Sithara007 on July 01, 2017, 11:31:08 PM

Quote from: chixka000 on July 01, 2017, 11:37:16 AM

Are they going to mandate all their branches around the world to start accepting bitcoin or they would stay in russia for now? Tho i am excited for this because i am a burger king fan i am kinda afraid to pay more in fees than the burger that i've paid

Just checked with a Russian friend yesterday, and he told me that the Burger King employees in Vernadskogo Avenue have no idea about Bitcoins or the news that BK is going to accept BTC. As usual, it looks like the Coin Telegraph is churning out fake news in order to increase the readership.

That it is a fake was clear from the outset. This not only contravenes Russian legislation, but also how it can be implemented. First you will have to wait a few hours of payment confirmation and even payment transactions will be worth more than the cost of the Burger.

If a payment processor such as Coinbase is used, then these problems can be solved. There will be a very small fee, and the issue with confirmations also will not be there. But in that case, we will have to say that BK accepts Coinbase payments, and not Bitcoin payments.

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Not a well structured idea. Is like buying a damn coffee with Bitcoin.

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This is awesome.

I can't wait to blame burger king for my type 2 diabetes that I got from the king of burgs.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on July 01, 2017, 11:31:08 PM

Quote from: chixka000 on July 01, 2017, 11:37:16 AM

Are they going to mandate all their branches around the world to start accepting bitcoin or they would stay in russia for now? Tho i am excited for this because i am a burger king fan i am kinda afraid to pay more in fees than the burger that i've paid

Just checked with a Russian friend yesterday, and he told me that the Burger King employees in Vernadskogo Avenue have no idea about Bitcoins or the news that BK is going to accept BTC. As usual, it looks like the Coin Telegraph is churning out fake news in order to increase the readership.

That it is a fake was clear from the outset. This not only contravenes Russian legislation, but also how it can be implemented. First you will have to wait a few hours of payment confirmation and even payment transactions will be worth more than the cost of the Burger.

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Quote from: NJB18 on July 02, 2017, 12:17:45 AM

Quote from: Vishnu.Reang on June 28, 2017, 11:59:46 AM

As usual, more fake news from the Coin Telegraph. 99.99% of the articles being published in that website are fake. It will be great if Burger King accepts Bitcoin. But it is not going to happen in the near future, especially in Russia.

At first I really thought the news was true until I read your comment and got curious as it is indeed controversial. It may well be indeed fake news.

It may have been good news after all if it was true because it means another company, this time, a large worldwide food chain is accepting bitcoin as payments. But I also find it difficult to imagine spending bitcoin for a piece of burger. That might not be actually worth it. I have always thought that simple day to day transactions are good for fiat money. One does not have to wait for any confirmation and no transaction fees either.

If Burger King actually accepts Bitcoin (or any other crypto-coin), it is really great news for us. But as far as I know, right now they don't have any intention in doing that. Also, Russia is a country where the usage of Bitcoin for making payments is discouraged by the authorities. Bitcoin users face a lot of harassment there.

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