Wanna pay for coffee using your BTC? Here is how
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More ways to pay for a latte with Bitcoin—via services like GoBTC Pay riding on mining infra—show BTC creeping from asset to medium of exchange in niche contexts. For consumer-facing products, this is still a marketing differentiator, not a core payments rail, but it’s worth tracking where crypto-native users actually transact.
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