Buying Bitcoin at Over 800 Payment Terminals? Yep.
Here's some cool news. Consumers in Romania will have access to easy bitcoin purchases via 874 payment terminal located across the country. It all comes together thanks to a partnership between ATM operator Bitcoin Romania and ZebraPay - the operator of the terminals. According to CoinDesk, the machines are one-way, and consumers will buy the digital currency with the Romanian leu. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTXm75Hi-pM. The kiosks won't require any identification, and already they seem to be a hit. In two says of service, over seven bitcoins have been sold. The kiosks do, however,....
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Bitcoin is now available at 874 self-service payment terminals across Romania, thanks to a partnership between ATM operator Bitcoin Romania and terminal network operator ZebraPay. The ZebraPay terminals will allow customers to buy bitcoin at a 4% commission on prices taken from the Cointrader exchange. The terminals are one-way, so customers can only trade their Romanian leu for bitcoin. The terminals do not require customers to hand over identification documents when buying bitcoin. The service has been available for two days but it has already sold 7.2 BTC, underscoring bitcoin's growing....
Throughout the years, consumers have all heard the stories about how financial information has been stolen when using physical payment terminals. Despite best efforts by card issuers to step up the security game, the payment terminals themselves are inherently insecure. Or to be more precise, the modulated payment protocols powering these terminals are the root of all evil, as there are major security flaws waiting to be exploited. Whenever financial data theft occurs, most people only think about what would happen to the affected consumers. But at the same time, merchants are exposed as....
Some 20 million Romanians received a huge win this past week. Bitcoin Romania has teamed up with ZebraPay to allow users around the country to buy Bitcoin at over 800 ZebraPay Payment Terminals. Europe has been a hotbed of Bitcoin activity for years. The recent 2014 Bitcoin Foundation Bitcoin Conference was held in Amsterdam, instead of an American city, and Europe's central banks have, for the most part, stayed clear of overbearing legislation that could stifle Bitcoin adoption. Also read: Indonesians Can Now Buy Bitcoin At Over 10,000 Indomaret Stores. The Payment terminals use the....
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Canada-based Coinkite is doing some pretty interesting things in the bitcoin realm. A prime example: the company today announced that consumers can now begin buying and selling bitcoin with Coinkite terminals beginning today. Coinkite terminals were introduced in Autumn of 2013 and allow merchants to easily accept bitcoin payments from customers, include those carrying Coinkite's own debit card. According to the company, the terminals have two modes: retail and exchange. Retail mode, as you would expect, is used for business operations. The exchange mode operates like a mini-ATM. With....