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But today she has some everyday that use it to pay for a coffee, a slice of cake or a sandwich. Everything she earns in Bitcoins, she spends for herself in the neighbourhood.Īt first clients wanting to pay in Bitcoins were rare. For now, Florentina has not converted her Bitcoins into euros.

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Some software and a QR code, that is all the client needs. Later, when she decided to open her own café, she was convinced by her neighbours, obtained some information on the system and decided to accept payments in a currency that a short time before she had considered a chore. 'At first, it almost bothered me, I didn't fully understand how it worked and when someone wanted to pay in Bitcoins, I got flustered,' she says. For her, it all started when she was a waitress in a nearby bar that allowed the use of the alternative currency. Of Dutch origin, the 26-year-old former student at Berlin's art school launched her small food service enterprise and wholeheartedly supports the Bitcoin. Perhaps there will be several but I have the impression that it is an inevitable change,' he says.įlorentina Martens is the owner of Floor's Café. I don't know if the Bitcoin is the currency of the future, but it will certainly be those currencies that rely on internet-based technology that will dominate. 'I pay in Bitcoins at least two times per day, for lunch and for a coffee.

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With his smartphone in his right hand, he opens the EasyWallet application – he then just needs to take a photo of the QR code in the café, insert the amount required, click on OK and the payment is made. According to him, it is a responsible choice such as buying an environmentally-sustainable product rather than a polluting low-cost one.

Sitting on his white Vespa in front of Floor's, Brand explains briefly how the Bitcoin system works. This is starting to raise concerns, especially because its use is becoming more and more widespread.

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Although it fulfils all the criteria to be considered a currency, as was recently recognised by Texas judge Amos Mazzant, the Bitcoin is nonetheless free of all control by governments or central banks. On paper at least, it can be used to purchase anything – housing, cars, computers or clothes. ], that means a coffee costs only 0.02 Bitcoins. Nearly 25 shops – most of them cafés, but also hotels, restaurants, small electronics firms and office supply stores – accept this virtual currency launched in 2009 by an anonymous hacker known as Satoshi Nakamoto. This is the Bitcoin miracle, the cryptocurrency that is flourishing here, in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The transaction data is kept secure by the blockchain, protected by rigorous encryption codes that bar anyone from accessing or modifying the amount, the provenance or the destination. Brand, 32, did not need a credit card or a bank account. A software application has transferred money from his on-line account to the café's and the transaction appears in the blockchain – a ledger which records the transactions in chronological order. He has left no trace of payment – or not much. When it comes time to pay, he pulls out his smartphone, takes a picture of the quick response code (QR code) that appears on the screen, types in a code, clicks 'OK', and leaves. Two hundred metres further south, in the same district, Brand treats himself to a latte macchiato at Floor’s Café.

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The transaction leaves no visible trace, other than the bag full of glistening fish that Mikaela takes with her. Mikaela buys a kilo of fish – '€3' announces a placard – and pays in cash, from hand to hand. Berliners ambling between the stalls succumb to irresistible last-minute offers. As it does every Tuesday, the canal echoes with the tell-tale sounds of the Turkish market.

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