New Service Will Allow Bitcoin Enthusiasts to Spend Bitcoins on Hotel Stays
If you're looking to spend your bitcoins on hotel accommodations, a new service by the name of GuestLeader just may have you covered, reports the Daily Mail. The website, which has not yet launched, will operate much like the other slew of hotel booking services already available to consumers, with the added convenience of allowing customers to pre-pay with digital currency. It's all coming together via a partnership with Atlanta-based BitPay, who will present the customer with a QR code to scan in order to send the payment. The move will give bitcoin enthusiasts the opportunity to spend....
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California-based travel agency CheapAir.com has announced that it is expanding its service to allow bitcoin users to book hotel stays with the cryptocurrency. CheapAir has been accepting bitcoin for flight bookings since November when it partnered with Coinbase, however until today, users have not been able to pay in bitcoin for its extensive hotel inventory. Speaking to CoinDesk, CEO and founder Jeff Klee voiced his enthusiasm for becoming the "first company in the US" to allow bitcoin users to book hotel stays with the virtual currency: "Bitcoin gets a bad rap in mainstream media. What I....
One of the most exciting conference in this year is definitely Inside Bitcoins Las Vegas. The conference will start today with many interesting workshops such as Bitcoin and Anti-Money Laundering Regulation or e-Commerce and Bitcoin: Facilitating Online Transactions. But lets see what Sin city offers for the ones who are willing to spend some bitcoins here. If you want to buy or even sell bitcoins you would have to go to The D Casino Hotel Las Vegas. They have a Robocoin ATM installed there. Once you bought your bitcoins you can start spend it as their steak house called Andiamo accepts....
BTCTrip wants to bring 150,000 hotels to the Bitcoin economy. BTCTrip is one of those special companies in the Bitcoin space that knows how to evangelize for the cryptocurrency. While they already allow users to book flights around the world with Bitcoin, they are now preparing an expansion into the hotel market. In addition to allowing users to book hotels with their online reservation system, they're also rolling out some new features that should speed up the booking process and bring more hotels into the Bitcoin economy. Hotel Chains Now Accept Bitcoin. The first thing BTCTrip wants to....