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Users of the Starbucks mobile app will soon have the opportunity to pay for their drinks with Bakkt Cash. According to Bakkt, at the current moment, the crypto payment option is only in limited beta.Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Bakkt partners with Starbucks to introduce a new payment option for Starbucks mobile app users. Named “Bakkt Cash”, the feature is already available for Starbucks customers as a limited beta.We're also reducing payment costs for merchants which improves their...

Tatcha, a $500 million skincare company, has origins that can be traced to Starbucks. As different as both lines of business are, the founder’s experience in the coffee-making behemoth, prepared her for the future. This was a future founder Vicky Tsai, who quite easily scaled, thanks to hands-on experience with Starbucks.Tatcha – Starbucks OriginsTsai’s yearning for business success was a key ingredient in her decision to attend the Harvard Business School. Leaving for Shanghai almost...

Well, Bakkt has been around for over a month. Despite a slow start, it looks like the crypto trading platform has easily rebounded and is now trading in the millions in terms of the number of bitcoin futures contracts.Bakkt Can Work in “Other” WaysAnd yet, there are some analysts that don’t seem to think this will make bitcoin and cryptocurrency mainstream. How can this be? For years, the primary argument behind Bakkt is that it will bring institutional traders to the playing field. This will...

Bakkt: Diese Handelsplattform wird Bitcoin grossen Investoren zugänglich machen. Gestartet wurde am 23. September 2019. In der Blockchain-Szene war Bakkt in der letzten Zeit ein immer wiederkehrender Teil der Nachrichten. So verursachten beispielsweise der Launch von Bitcoin Futures und die geplante Einführung von anderen Optionskontrakten ab diesem Dezember eine grosse...

Bakkt’s consumer app trials to commence by mid-2020. Starbucks is the largest coffee chain in the world by the number of outlets. Bakkt wants to move beyond futures trading. Months after Starbucks disappointed the crypto space by backpedaling on reports that it would be accepting direct Bitcoin payments, the coffee chain has been announced as the first launch partner of Bakkt’s upcoming crypto payments service. According to the Bitcoin futures exchange founded by the parent company...

Bakkt is currently looking to help its retail community to trade cryptocurrencies as seamlessly as possible. The platform has decided to do this with the launch of a consumer-focused app that will help these customers easily use this app for proper business interactions with several merchants, using digital assets. Starbucks that has already a history of cooperation with Bakkt will be the first merchant on the platform.According to an official Bakkt blog post, Chief Product Officer Mike...

Only a few days remain before the launch of the long-awaited and much anticipated Bakkt trading platform, which will bring large institutional investors to the Bitcoin market. It may sound unfeasible, but Bitcoin price is expected to reach $100,000 in the coming years, and much of the next bull run will be driven by Bakkt.What is Bakkt?The Bakkt cryptocurrency platform was created by ICE, a transcontinental operator of the largest futures exchanges and clearing houses for financial and...