Coinmerce opens the first crypto store in the Netherlands
This store aims to make investing in cryptocurrency accessible, safe and for everyone. In the crypto information center, located in Amstelveen, it is possible to inform you with or without an appointment and to buy cryptos yourself.
Nine percent of all Dutch people expect to get into Bitcoin within the next year. This is according to a recent report from the Bitcoin Monitor, by independent market research firm Markteffect. Almost a million Dutch people (7%) already own Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency. The research shows that 45% of the Dutch state lack of knowledge as the number 1 not to invest in Bitcoin.
At Coinmerce they therefore think it is high time to change that. Founder Nick Smits van Oyen: ‘The number of traditional banks that you can visit for financial information is decreasing every year. While personal contact is often the basis of confidence in a financial product. We are responding to the opening of our new store. With us you walk in for a cup of coffee. We are now turning something purely digital into something physical. Our personal and extensive information should make crypto for a low-threshold and large group. In this way we hope to create more confidence for the new money of the future.’
First crypto shop
The crypto shop in the Amstelveense Stadshart is for crypto laymen, connoisseurs and everything in between. For example, you can have yourself fully informed by an employee by means of a personal conversation. But you can also look around yourself and brush up on your general knowledge through videos that provide answers to frequently asked questions. And are you completely aware and do you know where you want to go? Then you can create an account at the back of the store on one of the installed computers to make your crypto purchases. With great success of the Crypto Information Center, Coinmerce will open several crypto shops in Europe in the coming years.
The Coinmerce store is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., when the corona measures have lifted. If you want to schedule a personal appointment with an employee in advance, you can do so via coinmerce.io/shop. The opening is celebrated with a promotion where every new account receives €10 in Bitcoin for free, from Smits van Oyen.
Gift cards
‘In mid-December 2021, just in time for Christmas, you can purchase gift vouchers in the store, the initiators say. The first gift card in the Netherlands works the same as gift vouchers as you know them. After entering your code, it says you got it on your Coinmerce account.’
(PvWK, photo: Crypto Crow via Pexels)