https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pq8p/starbucks-will-not-be-accepting-bitcoin > On Friday, Starbucks announced a new cryptocurrency venture with Microsoft and Intercontinental Exchange (owner of the New York Stock Exchange) called Bakkt. > Perhaps because Starbucks is best known as a coffee retailer, and digital currencies such as Bitcoin are still painfully lacking in places to spend them, a whole bunch of news outlets took the announcement to mean that customers will soon be able to buy their Venti-whatever with cryptocurrency. CNBC ran with the headline “New Starbucks partnership with Microsoft allows customers to pay for Frappuccinos with bitcoin.”