KFC will now let you pay for fried chicken using the cryptocurrency Bitcoin

Kentucky Fried Chicken has begun selling a ‘Bitcoin Bucket’ which can only be bought using the cryptocurrency. 

The fast-food chain has started allowing Canadian customers to order deliveries using the digital dosh. KFC Canada has also launched its own real-time price tracker on Facebook, which shows the current price of a poultry pail in Bitcoin. To help deal with the wildly volatile cryptocurrency markets, KFC has pegged the price of its bucket at $20 (£11.71) and will convert that into fractions of a Bitcoin whenever someone purchases a bucket filled with the battered and fried remains of dismembered chickens

. It wrote: ‘Sure, we don’t know exactly what Bitcoins are, or how they work, but that shouldn’t come between you and some finger-lickin’ good chicken.’ The Colonel’s social media team appear to have become rather excited about the project and have published a string of Facebook posts about the Bitcoin Bucket. This screenshot shows how much the bucket costs in Bitcoin at the time of writing, according to The Colonel’s price tracker (Photo: KFC) ‘Not a bull market, this here is a chicken one,’ KFC wrote. ‘We could maybe be persuaded to someday accept DogeCoin,’ it added, referring to the joke currency which is now worth a total of more than $1billion.