Bitcoin has created a stir since its early days and people believe that is could become more powerful once it becomes an integral part of people’s life- when they can buy a coffee at Starbucks with it or it is used to buy things at Walmart paying with their Bitcoin. This could soon be possible if people can, not just spend their bitcoins at Walmart but also buy them from there.
The most common places for people to buy cryptocurrency today is via a centralized exchange or a peer to peer lending platform which is spread across the world. But a lot of people don’t know that they can buy their favorite digital currency at a place which is as common as Walmart and by using the services of the largest retail giant.
Buying Bitcoin at a store might not be a cakewalk but yes it’s possible and for Bitcoin to be a fiat replacing currency it is necessary that people start buying it at the store than at an exchange.
The following article with a guide, tells the readers of how their shopping mart can become a place where they can easily buy bitcoins.
Like anyone would need bags to carry their groceries out of Walmart, they would also need a wallet where they can store all their future digital assets in.
This wallet is like a physical wallet or a bank account for Bitcoin.
There are a variety of companies that provide wallet services and the user can choose from any of those depending on the service he wants additionally to storing the bitcoin.
Once the wallet has been selected, the user will have to retrieve the Bitcoin wallet address from there as it will be needed to transfer their bitcoin.
Once the address is retrieved, the user is ready to buy and sell the crypto coins.
This will also be needed if the user doesn’t want to go to the crypto exchange at all and may want to sell it to a peer for cash or via gift card.
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If a user holds some extra Walmart Gift Card, he can find someone who has Bitcoins and would to share it with the user. If they both agree and there is a deal for exchanging Walmart Cards with BTC.
It’s a win-win situation for both.
This route is not as easy and quick as buying bitcoins with Walmart gift card. Of course, this route is also not a direct purchase and another service of Walmart will be put to use as you will be utilizing Walmart 2 Walmart Money Transfers as a middleman.
Isn’t that interesting and enticing.
Walmart2Walmart is a service provided by Walmart that allows the user to send money to any Walmart that is based out in the US. This also includes the stores located in Puerto Rico. These transfers do come with associated fees which are as follows:
To transact using Walmart transfer services, the user has to visit the Walmart store which is closest to him and deposit equivalent Cash to the teller who may be located at the customer service area of the store. This money then needs to be transferred over to the BTC seller. There are no prerequisites for the transfers and can be transacted by anyone and at any Walmart.
As mentioned earlier, Bitcoin sellers may choose any payment options which is available to him, including the Walmart2Walmart money transfers.
So here’s how one can do this-
While we are still a little away from Walmart actually selling cryptos and accepting them, it still pretty handy to use the services of Walmart to buy and sell Bitcoin.
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