Coming to a Sheetz near you will be the ability to pay your bill via cryptocurrency.  “But I’m just a small business.”  If your business can possibly investigate accepting cryptos as a payment method, investing some time and energy into educating yourself about the space and further enabling such transactions will put you in front your competitors as a technically savvy and forward leaning organization.

Sheetz has announced it is going to start accepting Bitcoin at select locations this summer, saying it is the first convenience store chain to accept the cryptocurrency.
Sheetz is partnering with payment network Flexa and technology company NCR to make the addition of digital currencies as a payment option possible.

The announcement, made on Thursday, says that the company intends to also accept other currencies such as dogecoin, ether and litecoin. 

        The once odd, often maligned idea of using a digital, universal, decentralized currency has become not only mainstream, but accepted as a likely future and has also cleared the way for other revolutionary blockchain technologies.  Quickly:

        But to learn more, see one of many resources covering the basics.  And then take a stroll down the road of some more technical, but accessible discussions that can be found throughout the internet (Vitalik Buterin is Ethereum’s founder):