Samsung Now Accepting $STEEM 🤗 (Sort-of)

donald.porter (65)in #steemit • 6 years ago (edited)

Samsung now accepts $STEEM, Bitcoin $BTC, Ethereum $ETH, Litecoin $LTC, Ripple $XRP, NEM $XEM, and Dash $DASH as payment. Crypto payment options are available in Samsung online stores and are being rolled out by jurisdiction.

Samsung has already began using the CopPay, a popular Belarusian payment system to sell their full line of products for cryptocurrency in branded/partner stores in 3 EU countries – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

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This is huge for Steemit; price, demand and adoption. I wouldn't mind if they started accepting Monero $XMR as well!

Update: Not fake news, only exaggerated; just a Bit!

Update 17:55 UTC: Following our coverage, CopPay CEO Ina Samovich contacted Hard Fork to insist that the partnership with Samsung is real, blaming the botched announcement on a communication mishap with an unnamed “reseller.”

“The official reseller has singed agreement with our company and several transactions occurred during last two weeks,” she told Hard Fork. “So we can prove that the crypto payment method was used and was powered by CopPay. We were not aware that reseller did not inform HQ about our cooperation.”

We’ve asked for further proof and will update the piece accordingly, if we receive it.

Meanwhile, Samsung continues to insist there is no partnership in place – and that anything else is merely rumors and speculation.

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6 years ago in #steemit by donald.porter (65)

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annaabi (54) 6 years ago (edited)

Woooop! Thats great news!
I live in Estonia, finally i can buy something for my 0.16 :)

Do you have link to some sources?

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donald.porter (65) 6 years ago (edited)

Yep, directly under the title-art and before any text content; click the source link.

You may also watch this video by Thinking Crypto, it's how I found out the Smasung/Steem news before doing my own due diligence:

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annaabi (54) 6 years ago (edited)

after some digging i found that it was little bit overexaggerated : https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/07/23/samsung-coppay-cryptocurrency-baltics/

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donald.porter (65) 6 years ago (edited)

That explains why it was removed from #CoinTelegraph...

Dead Link: https://cointelegraph.com/news/samsung-baltic-stores-now-accept-crypto-via-blockchain-payments-platform-coppay

That page no longer exists. Unfortunately fake-news spreads fast... too bad we can't delete posts here on #Steemit; many of us are still sharing this story in different ways.

Fortunately it is not entirely fake, just overblown like you stated!

Update 17:55 UTC: Following our coverage, CopPay CEO Ina Samovich contacted Hard Fork to insist that the partnership with Samsung is real, blaming the botched announcement on a communication mishap with an unnamed “reseller.”

“The official reseller has singed agreement with our company and several transactions occurred during last two weeks,” she told Hard Fork. “So we can prove that the crypto payment method was used and was powered by CopPay. We were not aware that reseller did not inform HQ about our cooperation.”