Bitso will launch a new QR code payment tool in its wallet application that permits customers in Argentina to pay with cryptocurrency at a wide array of general stores, cafés, and other supermarkets around the country, giving an option in contrast to the peso, as inflation hitters the economy.  

The Latin America-based digital currency exchange, which counts more noteworthy than 1,000,000 customers in Argentina, will begin progressively carrying out the QR code choice to clients there starting September 27.  

“The idea is to make cryptocurrency more useful in more places, and allow all citizens to live their lives in cryptocurrency by buying everyday services,” Bitso’s Senior Vice President of product santiago Alvarado stated.  

The QR codes give an extra option for consumers in Argentina to save in cryptocurrency and spend it while visiting actual stores, particularly significant as inflation in the nation approaches 80% in comparison with a year ago, and the peso’s buying influence declines.  

A few stores in Argentina presently offer the choice of paying in fiat currency through QR codes, and Bitso’s wallet application will be able to scan these and offer clients the option of paying with United states’ dollar-pegged crypto stablecoins, the Dai crypto stablecoin, ether, Bitcoin (BTC) or Argentine pesos. Bitso will then automatically change the digital currency into Argentine pesos for traders at the hour of procurement. 

Alvarado expressed, the wallet of the Bitso will be able to scan two of the most renowned sorts of QR codes from payment services Mercado Pago and Modo. Moreover, Bitso’s application will be able to scan QR codes from “all other systems approved by the central bank,” he added.  

QR codes are a popular payment method in Argentina. The country has the most exorbitant cost of QR code usage in Latin America, local economic publication El Cronista announced in August, referring to information from the Mastercard New Payments Index.