But an employee who declined to give their name said that the store wasn't accepting crypto payments."Not today — I don't know," they said, declining to clarify how long ago the store stopped accepting crypto or whether that option will eventually return.
Michael Powers, 46, of Long Beach was less in the loop. He comes to Bored & Hungry a lot — as often as two or three times a week, he estimated — but although the ape-themed signage was what first drew him in, he didn't know the spot was NFT-themed until his sons explained it to him. The two ecurrencies that Bored & Hungry initially accepted, ethereum and apecoin, are down to about 23% and 17% of their highs over the last year, respectively. Estimates put the entire sector at worth less than a third of what it was in early 2022.
"I'm pretty outside the world of cryptocurrency and all that stuff," said Lindsey, who declined to give her last name,"so I'm definitely gonna go home and Google that."