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Yesway Installs Cryptocurrency ATMs Across 45 Locations

CoinFlip kiosks will provide customers with access to buy and sell digital currency, like Bitcoin
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Photograph courtesy of CoinFlip

Yesway, Fort Worth, Texas, is partnering with CoinFlip, a Chicago-based digital currency platform company, to offer cryptocurrency ATMs in its convenience stores.

  • BW Gas & Convenience Holdings LLC, which owns Yesway and Allsup’s, is No. 19 on CSP’s 2024 Top 202 ranking of convenience-store chains by store count.

CoinFlip’s digital currency kiosks, also referred to as bitcoin ATMs, can now be found at 45 Yesway and Allsup's locations in Texas, South Dakota, New Mexico, Wyoming and Iowa.

“We look forward to introducing CoinFlip to our customers seeking to purchase Bitcoin and seven other, different, cryptocurrencies,” said Alan Adato, Yesway’s senior manager of merchandising and procurement. “As one of the world’s largest operators of cryptocurrency kiosks, CoinFlip will provide our Yesway and Allsup’s customers the convenience of a seamless experience for buying or selling digital currencies.”

CoinFlip is a global digital currency platform company, focused on providing consumers simple and secure access to buy and sell cryptocurrency. The company operates the world's largest network of cryptocurrency kiosks by transaction volume with more than 5,000 kiosks across 49 U.S. states, according to the company.

“When seeking new expansion locations, we look for partners who share our operating values and provide safe, clean and quality locations for customers to use our kiosks,” said Josh Allen Group, vice president of global kiosks and international of CoinFlip. “Yesway embodies this customer—and community-first ethos and we could not be prouder to launch our partnership with them in these five states. Having a convenient, simplified and secure way to buy and sell your cryptocurrency is critically important if we want all people to share in the benefits of the digital economy. Yesway recognizes the value of and importance of this to its customers and CoinFlip is thrilled to be part of the Yesway and Allsup’s community.”

Yesway, established in 2015 and based in Fort Worth, Texas, is a c-store operator with 434 stores across Texas, New Mexico, South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wyoming, Oklahoma and Nebraska. Yesway acquired the Allsup’s chain in 2019.

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