{"id":4223,"date":"2017-08-24T11:53:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T08:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.media\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2017-08-24T11:53:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T08:53:59","slug":"burger-king-russia-launches-whoppercoin-token","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/burger-king-russia-launches-whoppercoin-token\/","title":{"rendered":"Burger King Russia Launches Whoppercoin Token"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burger King\u2019s Russian division has announced it is now offering Whoppercoin, its own cryptocurrency named after the signature burger serves by the company.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new cryptocurrency was launched on the Waves blockchain platform.<\/p>\n<p>Customers of Burger King in Russia can now get Whoppercoins on a special digital wallet when they are buying Whoppers. For each &#8220;Whopper&#8221; bought, the visitor will receive one Whoppercoin. Starting today, August 22, customers can send a photo of the check paid for the order at Burger King and the address of their cryptocurrency wallet to receive new cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>A Burger King Russia spokesman specified that the initial application of the new cryptocurrency is a new loyalty program that will allow customers to pay for food with collected coins. However, it is still unclear what exchange rate will be implemented.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;We will test the [system] first, and then we will have an understanding,&#8221; <\/strong>the company\u2019s spokesman said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To date, there are only one billion Whoppercoins issued, but the developers do not rule out the possibility of additional emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wavescommunity.com\/burger-king-russia-issued-a-token-on-waves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement on the Waves Platform<\/a><\/span> website says the details of the partnership and future possibilities are still a subject of discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, earlier this summer Burger King Russia <a href=\"http:\/\/forklog.media\/burger-king-to-accept-bitcoins-in-russia-by-the-end-of-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">has announced<\/span><\/a> it was developing software to accept bitcoins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burger King\u2019s Russian division has announced it is now offering Whoppercoin, its own cryptocurrency named after the signature burger serves by the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"human_written","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[661,27,290],"class_list":["post-4223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-burger-king","tag-russia","tag-waves"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"194","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4227,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions\/4227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}