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Craft Brewery
Tales From the Crypto
By: Raj Tulshan, Founder of Loan Mantra
S tillFire Brewing is the first brewery in companies. Notably, the brewery has joined more
than 30% of U.S. small businesses that now accept
Georgia to accept cryptocurrency and cus-
tomers are invited to use Bitcoin as pay-
more mainstream and popular.
ment for beers and other beverages, as cryptocurrency, as this payment method becomes
well as, their merchandise, which includes t-shirts,
caps, gift cards, and more. The small business Threes Brewing, with locations in Brooklyn and
decided to accept crypto so customers could use Long Island, is also accepting cryptocurrency. The
a fast, secure payment method, and the brewery pandemic forced them to adjust their business
owners appreciate crypto’s benefits, including no model, which included updating their website and
third-party involvement or bank fees. StillFire uses offering beer delivery direct to consumers. People
CoinBase, a Bitcoin payment processor, to han- were excited to buy the brews online and asked
dle the payments. CoinBase offers fast, next day the brewery owners to start accepting PayPal. The
deposits and a low fee – just 1% of transactions, as owners decided to go one step further, offering a
opposed to 2-4% typically charged by credit card cryptocurrency option, as well, which was easy to
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