Kentucky Fried Chicken Canada is allowing customers to pay for a bucket of the Colonel's Original Recipe in Bitcoin.

Renamed the "Bitcoin Bucket", the fast-food chain has priced the chicken at $CAD 20 – which at the time of writing amounts to 0.001 Bitcoin.

For those worried about Bitcoin's notoriously long transfer times (currently sitting at 51 minutes), the chicken bucket will only be available to be purchased through KFC Canada's online portal.

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Aware of the cryptocurrency's famously volatile value, the fast food chain has set up a Facebook Live to track the current value of the product per Bitcoin world charts.

"Welcome to 2018, Canada," reads KFC Canada's website.

"Despite the ups and downs of Bitcoin, the Colonel’s Original Recipe is as good as always. So, trade your Bitcoins for buckets and invest in something finger lickin’ good."

Once purchased, customers will have their bucket – which is filled with 10 pieces of chicken, waffle fries, a medium side, a medium gravy and two dips – delivered to their home.

Reaction to the publicity stunt online was mixed, with many praising the fast food chain's "forward thinking".

"Welcome to 2018 KFC. I'm going to buy some just because you take Crypto. Finger licking good," wrote one Twitter user.

"This is great, but only if you're prepared to wait 2 hours for your transaction to confirm and happy to pay more than the cost of the meal in transaction fees," wrote another.

To its credit, KFC Canada is going hell-for-leather on its social media accounts with crypto puns, making sure everyone is well aware the fast food chain has no idea about how cryptocurrency actually works.

"Change your real fake money into real real chicken," wrote KFC. "Does anyone really understand crypto currency?"

At the time of publishing Bitcoin was trading at $US13,334 after a horror night saw it lose nearly $400 due to murmurs South Korea would soon ban all cryptocurrencies.