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American convenience store chain Sheetz will accept Bitcoin payments

16 pointsby anandaverma18almost 4 years ago

7 comments

lowercasedalmost 4 years ago
Sounds great, but if every gas station fill up will result in a 'taxable event', people will need more infrastructure around tracking and reporting those activities. This feels like the opposite of some rewards card/program - every time I fill up, I'm not getting some "free reward", I'm adding to my tax-reporting data collection tasks.
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ink_13almost 4 years ago
I can&#x27;t imagine anything more convenient than waiting around for over two hours to ensure my transaction is confirmed: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ycharts.com&#x2F;indicators&#x2F;bitcoin_average_confirmation_time" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ycharts.com&#x2F;indicators&#x2F;bitcoin_average_confirmation_...</a><p>Confirmation time has also recently spiked to over <i>two days</i>.<p>BTC has many of the attributes of an asset like gold, but as a currency, transaction times make it something of a bust.
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Yajirobealmost 4 years ago
Not gonna work. Bitcoin people are all for adoption but only on paper. In reality, nobody wants to pay for gas or purchase a pizza using bitcoin. All these people care about is speculation and &#x27;beating the market&#x27;.
boomboomsubbanalmost 4 years ago
And by &quot;accept bitcoin payments&quot; they mean they&#x27;ll use the payment processor Flexa which I assume accepts bitcoin, their homepage doesn&#x27;t mention them.
vmceptionalmost 4 years ago
lol Flexa<p>I was in a chatroom with one of their advisors trying to shill me on Flexa for several years<p>Takes that long to close a deal with crypto companies, huh. And only during the hottest market in history
alisonkiskalmost 4 years ago
Presumably it&#x27;s really Bitcoin to dollars to trade, which seems pointless because if you are doing that, why not just keep some dollars?
anandaverma18almost 4 years ago
Why it is flagged?