Online glasses and contact lenses retailer Coastal.com , has announced they will soon accept Bitcoins as a form of payment for their products. Coastal.com will be the first eyewear retailer to accept the digital currency as payment for products.
“As an e-commerce company, we’re excited to see digital currency gaining momentum,” said Roger Hardy, Founder and CEO of Coastal.com. “We’re continuously looking for new innovative approaches in order to best service our customers.”
Bitcoin “a peer-to-peer payment system and digital currency introduced as open source software in 2009 by pseudonymous developer Satoshi Nakamoto. It is a cryptocurrency, so-called because it usescryptography to control the creation and transfer of money” (Source: Wikipedia)