Save Money. Buy Bitcoin: Walmart Introduces $1 Chocolate Cryptocurrency

While investors complain over suppression of Bitcoin prices in 2018, the largest cryptocurrency quietly debuted at US Walmart stores for just $1.

Bang For Your Buck

As multiple Reddit users revealed this week and last, outlets of the retail giant have become full of bitcoins for the “everyday low price” of a single dollar.

These coins, however, are made of chocolate.

The unusual merchandise comes courtesy of Frankford, a candy manufacturer based in Philadelphia.

While neither Frankford nor Walmart itself has provided public commentary on the impetus behind the move, commentators have already begun hailing it as further proof of Bitcoin’s march into mainstream consciousness.

Previously, Walmart’s only Bitcoin hookup appeared to be via its online store, on which it sold explanatory literature about cryptocurrency.

Prospective investors can also use Walmart as an intermediary to purchase BTC through the company’s Walmart2Walmart money transfer operation.

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