Real Estate Brokerage Accepts Bitcoins

In what may be a first for a traditional real estate firm, Manhattan-basedbrokerage Bond New York has announced it will now accept Bitcoin as payment for real estate transactions.

The brokerage said in a statement that it believes it’s the first brokerage to accept Bitcoin, and named a number of benefits for making the move. Echoing other Bitcoin adopters, the brokerage cited reduced or nonexistent processing fees as one draw of the currency. Bond New York said the currency also offered security undergirded by “military-grade cryptography,” “identify protection” and “fast international payments,” plus it “works anywhere, anytime.”