Cellular Provider Mobile Vikings Receives Nearly 100 Bitcoin Payments
On December 19th, 2013, it was reported that European cellular carrier Mobile Vikings would begin accepting bitcoin payments. The carrier serves The Netherlands, Belgium, and Poland, and has preliminary statistics on just how bitcoin is doing with their service. "We have reached almost 100 payments via Bitcoin the past days," said Dorien Aerts, Chief Marketing Officer at the company in a statement to newsBTC. Despite that relatively small number, Mobile Vikings is pleased with the amount of transactions they've received in the digital currency. Aerts told me that it's "more than expected....
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