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Paying for Taco Bell with Dogecoin, Bitcoin may soon be a reality

BitPay already processes more than 60,000 transactions a month, more than half of them in Bitcoin

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Olga Kharif | Bloomberg
How about paying for your Taco Bell order with Dogecoin? Or some of Whole Food’s avocado ice cream with Bitcoin. 

That’s the goal of a new partnership between crypto payment processor BitPay Inc. and Verifone Inc., one of the world’s largest providers of those little machines you use to pay via a credit card or Venmo at a checkout line. Later this year, the newest Verifone terminals will start accepting payments for U.S. merchants from a range of cryptocurrency wallets and tokens, the companies said in a statement Tuesday. Terms of the agreement weren’t disclosed.

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