Watch the BitCoin Vending Machine in Action [VIDEO]

By PYMNTS | January 13, 2012

January 5, 2012

From the UpstateDemoVideo YouTube channel: Stuart W. Card, PhD of Critical Technologies Inc. made the first ever purchase (a bag of popcorn) from a vending machine using a QRcode and a smartphone Bitcoin wallet, in the laboratory of Upstate Networks Incorporated (developers of BTCVend [tm] and DroidVend [tm]).

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