Services That Let You Order Food Using Bitcoin
Every year crypto space celebrates May 22 as a Bitcoin Pizza day because, on May 22, 2010, a programmer Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 Bitcoins for 2 pizzas that day.
This incident considered a milestone which helped to Bitcoin became more popular.
But back in 2010, there are no food delivery services accept any kind of cryptocurrencies that’s the reason Laszlo Hanyecz offered 10,000 BTC in Bitcoin Talk forum.
Bitcoin Talk user, known as “jercos” accepted Laszlo offer and ordered the 2 Papa John’s pizzas.
To complete the transaction, Laszlo sent the Bitcoin to Jercos, who then ordered the pizza.
However, the scenario is completely changed now because back in 2010 the 10,000 BTC worth around $42 but at the time of writing the post it is worth more than $60 million! and many services accept Bitcoin as a payment method and let you order food.
Here I listed some of them for you.
Moon Browser Extention.
Moon is a US-based crypto startup operating since 2018.
Their Chrome browser extension helps you shop on Uber Eats using your Bitcoin holdings.
When you downloaded the extension, it’ll pop up when you’re in the checkout page and shows you how much you have to pay in Bitcoin to get the food.
To pay the Bitcoin, you have to integrate any Bitcoin wallet that works on the top of Lightning Network, or you can use Coinbase API to spend Bitcoin.
For now, they only operate in the US and Canada but they planned to extend it soon.
Lieferando.de.
If you aren’t based off in the US then, Lieferando is best option to go with.
Lieferando.de is the largest food delivery web portal in Germany, having more than 11,000 partner restaurants.
But in 2014, Amsterdam based online food delivery platform Takeaway.com acquired Lieferando.
After the acquisition, Lieferando started to accept Bitcoin payment using BitPay payment processor from 2017.
Along with Lieferando their Polish subsidiary, Pyszne.pl, which is the largest food delivery website in Poland also started to accepting Bitcoin payments.
Shuttle Delivery.
Is your next travel plan is to visit South Korea? But don’t know the language? Nothing to worry, Shuttle helps you order the food.
Shuttle Delivery is a Korean food delivery platform operating since 2016.
Even Shuttle is a Korean platform their main focus is to serve the foreigner that’s why their Website and App is in both Korean and English languages also every member of Shuttle team is an English speaker, thus their customer service can communicate with you and help you solve any issues.
In 2017 they introduced a Bitcoin payment option for ordering the food by focusing on their foreign users.
After Bitcoin boosted their revenue and profit, they added Bitcoin Cash (BCH) payment option in 2018.
Now you can use both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash ordering food in Shuttle.
To accept the cryptos they’re using BitPay services.
eGifter.
Based in Huntington (New York), eGifter is an gift card provider.
With eGifter, you can buy gift cards of well-known food brands such as Uber Eats, Domino’s, Dunkin Donuts.
Not only online brands you can even buy gift cards for famous restaurants in digital or physical form.
To buy the gift cards, they accept Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Ripple, Dash, Litecoin, Bitcoin SV.
For processing Bitcoin payments, they use BitPay and NetCents payment gateways.
But all these eGifter services limited to US citizens only if you’re one you can use the platform to order some food using Bitcoin holdings.
Bitrefill.
Bitrefill is a Sweden based company operating since 2014.
They mainly offer gift card, phone refills and lightning network access services.
For now, Bitrefill is the only company on this list aiming to serve worldwide users.
To serve worldwide, they designed user-interface to recognises your location and offers correlated gift card options.
You can use Bitrefill gift card service to order food from famous companies like KFC, Uber Eats, Papa John’s Pizza, Domino’s many more.
To buy gift cards you can use Bitcoin and other altcoins.
Bitrefill uses Thor lightning network channel to send and receive Bitcoin almost instantly.
Conclusion.
These are the services you can use to order food using your Bitcoin holdings.
Some of the above services let you order directly with Bitcoins some of them offer an indirect way you can choose which is the best option for you.
Also, many services are only operated in limited geographical areas you can choose suitable services according to your location even you can search for any services offer food in exchange with Bitcoin at your locality.
At last, if you wonder is Laszlo Hanyecz have any regret for losing his 10,000 Bitcoin over 2 Pizzas?
The answer is Not really.
In the recent interview with 60 Minutes, Laszlo replied.
I don’t regret it. I think that it’s great that I got to be part of the early history of Bitcoin in that way, and people know about the pizza and it’s an interesting story because everybody can kind of relate to that and be [like] – ‘Oh my God, you spent all of that money.’
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