Pint of Guinness? That'll be a bitcoin, please

Such alcohol, much bitcoin.

Pint of Guinness? That'll be a bitcoin, please

Dublin sold its first pint of Guinness in exchange for bitcoins, the peer-to-peer digital currency, last night.

Staff at The Baggot Inn on Dublin's Baggot Street have been looking at introducing the invisible currency for the past month or two, and last night, they sold a pint without cash or credit.

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