BitBill: Paying Bills with Bitcoin
When it comes to Bitcoin discussions, one of the arguments you are bound to encounter is the fact that you can’t pay your real-life bills with digital currency. Technically speaking, that is always incorrect, as you can convert Bitcoin to fiat currency and pay bills. If you live in Europe, however, you can also use a service called BitBill.eu. BitBill is hybrid between traditional banking and digital currencies like Bitcoin. Up until this point, it was not possible to pay any of your outstanding bills with bitcoin directly, with a few minor exceptions here and there. However, thanks to....
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It seemed with the ability to earn Bitcoin through selfies, buy bitcoin through a well designed exchange, and the ability toremit to the Philippines using bitcoin, Miguel had it pretty good over at Satoshi Citadel Industries, or SCI. Today I talked to them about Bills.Ninja, a service that allows people to pay for bills in the Philippines using Bitcoin. All bills are promised to be paid with in 24 hours, and only a PhP 30 fee per bill is required. Bills Ninja is a bills payment service that we have established in the Philippines for people who want to pay their bills with bitcoin without....
Bitwala, the service that lets EU citizens pay their bills in bitcoin — as well as offering a bitcoin debit card — has recently announced its new Bitwala Bitcoin Wallet service. This new wallet integrates both of their existing services into the same platform, reportedly making the whole process of paying bills and topping up a debit card with bitcoin a lot smoother and easier. Bitwala: Pay Everyday Bills with Bitcoin. Bitwala is a service that lets its users pay everyday bills in bitcoin, including but not limited to utility bills, phone bills, and mortgage payments. The user sends the....
Over the past year, bitcoin startups in the Philippines and Australia have begun to target day-to-day expenses and remittances; markets that are in desperate need of instantaneous, secure and cost-effective payment systems. Startups including Australia-based Living Room of Satoshi and Manila-based Rebit.ph, also known as the parent company of Bills Ninja, have been trying to educate the global population to use bitcoin in day-to-day expenses, such as paying utility bills and settling bank payments. Paying Bills with Ease. Earlier this year, Rebit.ph acquired bitcoin bills payment platform....
Coinmap of bitcoin in australia. Bitcoin in Australia has seen solid merchant-adoption in various cities, but one of the biggest problems of bitcoin mass adoption will always be paying for already institutionalized industries. Paying for student loans, internet service, phone service and public transportation are big obstacles in the way of the critical adoption levels Bitcoin-users crave. DISH has recently begun accepting Bitcoin as payment, which helps push past one obstacle, but what about all the other bills that pileup each month? For Australian Bitcoin users, the answer came in May....
The creator of Bitbill, Douglas Feigelson, has filed a patent application entitled "Creating and using digital currency", and covers a general method of storing digital currency in a physical token. While the term is not used in the patent application, it is directly aimed at a generic method of so-called cold storage of cryptocurrency, of which Bitbill is not the only method. The application, filed under 20130166455, states: Among other things, a physical device carries value and can be physically delivered in a transaction. The physical device includes a representation of the value....