“Australia’s largest premium cigar retailer, Brisbane-based Fine Cigars Australia began accepting the currency. The company’s general manager, Matthew Mroczek, said he and the company were already comfortable with bitcoin by that stage. ‘We have been using it for several months now to pay some of our suppliers in places like Mexico and Nicaragua because it is simply a far more efficient method of payment,’ he said. ‘To go through normal banking channels it would take two days for them to get the money, which delayed the delivery to our customers. Not to mention the problem with currency movements over such a time period.'”
http://www.coindesk.com/cigar-industry-receives-bitcoin-boost/
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