Hey Waivly Crew! 🌊 Coinme now offers Ethereum, Dogecoin, and four other cryptocurrencies from its grocery store kiosks. Mars has teamed up with NFT supergroup KINSHSHIP to release limited edition M&M’s.
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You can now buy Ethereum at your local grocery store
Seattle-based crypto exchange Coinme announced Wednesday it now sells six new cryptocurrencies from its grocery store kiosks.
Alongside Bitcoin, individuals can now use cash to purchase Ethereum, Polygon, Litecoin, Chainlink, Dogecoin, and Lumens at Coinme-enabled Coinstar kiosks in the United States.
"Different coins serve different purposes, and we're excited to continue serving our customers with a menu of coins representing approximately 70% of the total crypto market cap," said Neil Bergquist, CEO, and co-founder of Coinme. “Our position is to provide safe and secure access to digital currencies, and our customers can use them how they like to use them in a safe environment.”
Coinme first partnered with Coinstar in 2019 to make Bitcoin available for purchase through kiosks in select Safeway and Albertsons supermarkets. Since then, the company has expanded to 10,000 additional locations across 49 states.
Coinstar CEO Jim Gaherity said that customers had been asking for other cryptocurrencies to be made available besides Bitcoin.
“We want to make it easy for anyone, regardless of their familiarity with crypto, to get started with digital currencies with cash in their local grocery stores,” he noted.
Mars and KINGSHIP partner on limited edition M&M’s
Mars has signed a deal with Universal Music Group label 10:22PM to release three M&M products with Kingship, its virtual band made up of Bored Ape Yacht Club and Mutant Ape Yacht Club characters.
Only 4,000 physical collectible boxes of M&M’s have been released. The gold edition, the rarest product, comes in a white and gold foil gift box and includes custom printed candies with KINGSHIP group members Captain, KING, Arnell, and Hud in numbered boxes from 1 to 100.
M&M's also produced 3,900 exclusive celebratory gift boxes in brown, along with 6,000 gift jars of the candies now available to M&M and KINGSHIP fans.
"Consumers' expectations for what they want from their favourite brands has shifted, and at Mars, we know we need to be more innovative than ever with such a culturally famous brand like M&M'S," said Jane Hwang, Global Vice President at Mars Wrigley. "We're excited to continue our Mars foray into the metaverse through this partnership with 10:22PM and KINGSHIP, as a way to engage our fans in a new and exciting space."
After launching in November, KINGSHIP released a collection of 5,000 NFT “key cards” that provide exclusive access to music, content, products, and more. Holders of these NFTs were given early access to purchase the candies on M&M’s site.
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Hustle Special
5 Hope quotes to lift your spirits
In life, hope allows us to see the possibility of a better future, and with that brings the motivation needed to make it a reality. Here are five quotes to help you keep on pushing no matter what!
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” - Albert Einstein
“Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not about peace of mind. Hope is action. Hope is doing something.” - Chris Hedges
“Never give up. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it.” - Catherine Pulsifer
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.” – Anne Lamott
Amazon set to shut down Amazon Care
Amazon has recently announced that they are planning to shut down its virtual health service, Amazon Care. This comes after Amazon's plans to acquire the subscription-based primary care company, One Medical.
Amazon senior vice president of health Neil Lindsay explained to *Fierce Healthcare* that the service is being shut down because “it is not a complete enough offering for the large enterprise customers we have been targeting, and [it] wasn’t going to work long term.”
Amazon Care originally started out as a service for Amazon employees that are based in Seattle, which provided employees with virtual care services with an option to have an in-home visit from a nurse. The company then expanded the program back in February, so Amazon employees in all 50 states would have access to the Amazon Care program. Amazon then added mental health care to the service through the company’s partnership with mental health company, Ginger. Amazon Care operations are expected to end on December 31st.
Own and secure your crypto with Ledger
If you’re into cryptocurrency and own crypto assets, you need a secure place to store your coins and tokens. You probably already know that you shouldn’t store your crypto on an exchange due to potential hacks, not being solely in control of your crypto’s private keys, and for other reasons, and so a hardware wallet is the way to go and the best option to protect your private keys, therefore, you should make the move to a Ledger wallet.
Ledger wallets are an extremely secure and premium way to secure, manage, and grow your crypto assets with their Bluetooth-enabled hardware wallets, and easy-to-use app which lets you manage your portfolio on the go. They let you manage multiple assets, buy, sell, grow, and exchange crypto, gain financial freedom by you being in full control and ownership of your private keys, and so much more.
The wallets are really simple to setup, and to move your crypto over to, so there’s no reason not to secure your assets and take control of your cryptocurrency now and get yourself a Ledger device. You can manage 1800+ coins and tokens directly in the Ledger Live app once you’ve got your device up and running, so you’ll always have your entire portfolio covered.
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