How to Earn and Spend Bitcoin on Black Friday 2019

The holiday shopping season is upon us, and bitcoin users now have more opportunities than ever before to spend and earn their digital loot.

There are still ways to earn and use bitcoin even when shopping for the nocoiners on your Christmas list - even beyond tech companies like Microsoft, which accept bitcoin directly.

The London-based book publisher Kiosk accepts bitcoin payments and runs its own full node via BTCPay.

Since the publisher started accepting bitcoin in May 2019, roughly 15 customers have paid with crypto, said Kiosk founder Nick Greenbank.

"It has definitely helped expand my knowledge of Bitcoin, and my technical knowledge more generally," Greenbank said of using BTCPay.

Thanks to a variety of crypto startups, it's now relatively easy to spend bitcoin at mainstream retailers that don't transact directly in digital currency.

Mobile apps like Fold and Flexa allow users to spend digital assets in brick-and-mortar stores.

As for Fold, the payments startup offers credit card and bitcoin payment options, both of which earn shoppers modest bitcoin rewards.

Users will be able to cash out rewards in bitcoin, ether, DAI, or StormX's native token.

As a bitcoiner who has worked in the industry since 2014, Yu said this year the market is ripe for cryptocurrency fans to earn or spend digital assets during the holiday shopping season.