The first Polish businesses to accept bitcoins
The number of companies accepting payment for services and goods in bitcoins is steadily rising in Poland. Although still relatively few, these businesses are paving the way for the increased local use of the digital currency. Meanwhile, Polish state institutions are yet to present a coherent stance on the digital currencies and their role in local financial transactions. Social media agency faceADDICTED is one of the latest companies to join the ranks of bitcoin proponents in Poland. Based in the country's capital city Warsaw, the agency decided to reinforce its online presence by....
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You have probably heard it a hundred times by now: we accept bitcoins... This "we accept bitcoins" phrase is perhaps the latest marketing craze that has engulfed many e-commerce sites and traditional brick & mortar stores. Although many businesses accept your alternative currency, not many of them go further than that. Well, BTCTrip doesn't just accept bitcoins, they accept bitcoiners. That's what sets this travel site apart from the rest. Accepting bitcoiners means catering to the wants of bitcoin users by paying employees in bitcoin, offering more than discounts, and promoting the space.....
Palo Alto Networks has discovered a unique malware family that can mine bitcoins via the victim’s CPUs and GPUs. The malware, called PWOBot, is completely written in Python and compiled via PyInstaller, generating a Microsoft Windows executable, according to a Palo Alto Networks posting. The malware has affected European organizations, mainly in Poland. A Polish file-sharing service delivers the malware. The malware can download and execute files, log keystrokes, execute Python code and mine bitcoins via the affected computers’ GPUs and CPUs. The malware has been noticed as far back as....
Bitcoins can buy you everything from lunch and international flights to alleged hits on other human beings, if you're that way inclined. Now, in Poland, they can also be used for healthcare. A dentist in Kielce in central Poland is offering a 10% discount for customers who pay with bitcoin. Profident, which also makes dental equipment, says it is Poland's and possibly Europe's first dental clinic to accept bitcoin payments. As with other bitcoin-accepting businesses in other parts of the world, the company cited bank transaction fees as a reason to move towards bitcoin payments. "I have....
Several months after becoming one of the first Poland-based businesses to accept payments in bitcoins, web developer and design company EL Passion made the news again when it offered its employees the chance to receive their salaries either partly or entirely in bitcoins. The EL Passion website states that: "After much interest in the company about bitcoin and crypto-currencies in general, we've decided to provide our employees with the choice of having their salaries paid in bitcoin. This makes EL Passion the first company in Poland to pay salaries in bitcoin. "Open source is a big part....
In the latest turn of events related to the disputed legal status of digital currencies in Poland, a local tax authority has announced that the sale of mined bitcoins is subject to a VAT (value-added tax) of 23%. The interpretation was made by the director of the tax authorities in Łódź, central Poland, following a request submitted by a Polish bitcoin miner. In the released statement, the authorities said that the party requested an interpretation of the Polish regulation regarding taxes imposed on the sale of mined bitcoins. 'Not a commodity'. "The applicant is planning to launch sales....