Shift Card Allows Uber and Lyft Users To Earn Bitcoin Indirectly
It would be better to see Lyft or Uber integrate bitcoin directly. It is doubtful either Lyft or Uber will integrate bitcoin payments anytime soon. Until that happens, users can use a bitcoin debit card to spend cryptocurrency for these services. However, one user figured out how to cash out Lyft and Uber earnings and receive bitcoin. It takes the use of a Shift debit card, but the process seems to work just fine. It is rather intriguing to think of bitcoin debit cards as a way to receive payments. Disruptive services such as Lyft and Uber allow users to withdraw earnings to a payment....
Related News
Bitcoinist spoke to Roman Pushkin, founder of LibreTaxi, an open-source ridesharing mobile app that will soon support Bitcoin payments, to find out more about his vision for this “free alternative” for Uber and Lyft. Ride sharing applications are becoming part of our daily lives. However, there are just some areas apps like Uber and Lyft don’t cover and a certain currency – Bitcoin, of course – that these simply do not accept as a payment system. However, new alternatives are popping up, shifting the focus on rewarding the driver and empowering the user by retaining no profits and making....
By combining bleeding-edge technologies like Bitcoin, smart-contracts and the self-driving car, ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft could become obsolete as payment intermediaries. Uber Testing Self-Driving Cars. Everyone’s excited about Uber’s latest pilot program to test self-driving vehicles in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But the....
Ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft have ceased operations in the city of Austin, Texas due to government regulations. Arcade City, decentralized ride-sharing company, has commenced operations in Austin to fill the void left by the two outgoing ridesharing companies. Austin’s ridesharing regulation ordinance forces out Uber and Lyft. The city of Austin passed an ordinance requiring more stringent background checks, including fingerprinting, for ridesharing. Proposition 1, a ballot initiative meant to overturn the ordinance, failed. As a result, both Uber and Lyft have since ceased....
It is important to keep in mind Uber Argentina is not actively endorsing Bitcoin payments at this stage. There has been a lot of talk about whether or not Uber is suddenly accepting Bitcoin payments in Argentina. One of the company’s tweets seemed to indicate this change, albeit any official reference to has been removed ever since. Moreover, there was an email sent out to Xapo users further confirming using Bitcoin through Uber Argentina. For quite some time now, people have been wondering if and when Uber would start accepting Bitcoin payments. Considering how this ride-hailing....
Driver-owned ridesharing startup Arcade City, the developer of an open marketplace where riders connect directly with drivers by leveraging blockchain technology has now launched its mobile application for Apple iOS and Google Android devices. Ridesharing startup Arcade City has launched its mobile application that will be available at Apple and Android app stores. The platform was launched in a direct response to rate cuts by Uber and Lyft in January this year. A press release by the company revealed that more than 3,000 drivers had signed up, the majority of whom are current and former....