For a moment, they all watched the screen. Then, a soft ping echoed through the quiet showroom. The transaction was broadcast; the miners in some distant, frigid data center had done their work.
Leo scanned the QR code on the small wooden stand. 0.015 BTC. It was a strange sensation—not the swipe of plastic or the hand-off of paper, but a silent broadcast to a global ledger. He tapped 'Send.' buy furniture with bitcoin
As they loaded the heavy table into the van, Leo felt a strange sense of groundedness. The digital coins he’d been watching fluctuate on a screen for years had finally materialized into something he could touch, something that would hold his dinner and host his friends. For a moment, they all watched the screen