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Sydney - If the trading process and mine to produce Bitcoin feels tiring, this unique way could be an option to get one of those cryptocurrencies.
An Australian company has a unique way of exploiting other Bitcoin and cryptocurrency trends in the community.
It is Boost Juice, which by its name sells a variety of juice variants, a company that makes a competition with Bitcoin as a reward.
In a statement on the official website, they call will provide 1 BTC per week for a month. To win it, everyone just needs to buy their juice products and enter a special code into Boost's app, which is available on iOS or Android-based devices.
In order for the competition to flourish, they provide a list of the people who have spent the most money on Boost juice products on their site in order to win a Bitcoin chip.
In organizing this competition, the company is working with Coinjar, one of the cryptocurrency exchange platforms in Australia.
Coinjar allows each user to buy and sell a number of digital currencies, namely Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin.
Based on data from Coindesk, Bitcoin's own value is now in the range of USD 10,500 (Rp 142 million), after previously had slumped throughout January and declined in early February to under USD 6,000.
As for Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin each has a value in the range of USD 930 (USD 12.6 million), USD 1.1 (Rp 14.900), and USD 210 (Rp 2.8 million).