
“You can use digital dollars to buy an ever-lengthening list of items from sandwiches to fine art. And now homes. The bitcoin has gained a foothold in one of the hottest business sectors in the world: Manhattan real estate. Bond New York, a Manhattan-based real estate broker, has started accepting the digital currency for real estate transactions. Bond New York believes it is one of the first real estate brokerage firms in the US to accept bitcoin. ‘Real estate brokerage is a service industry,’ said Noah Freedman, a co-founder of Bond New York. ‘Our job is to make real estate transactions easy for our customers. Bitcoins are just another mechanism to help people facilitate transactions.'”
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