This is a first.
In Paris, the Beaugrenelle shopping center will accept payments in cryptocurrencies in its 115 shops.
From June 8 until the end of the month, customers will have the option to purchase a gift card through the French Lyzi app.
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The principle is simple, you just have to indicate an amount in euros on the platform, which displays the equivalence in cryptocurrency and generates a QR code.
Merchants only have to “
scan this QR code to validate the transaction and be paid in euros
”.
In all, 21 cryptocurrencies can be used, such as bitcoin or ether.
In a press release, the shopping center specifies that it "
offers its customers to use their cryptocurrencies to pay for their gift card, which can be used in all the shops and restaurants in the Magnetic and Panoramic buildings on rue Linois du 15th arrondissement of the capital
”.
A 10% bonus will also be offered by Beaugrenelle to each of its clients.
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If the use of cryptocurrencies is still unclear for most French people, Lyzi users can be trained in this new way of paying.
Employees will be present in the shopping center between June 8 and July 8 to present the solution.