T-Mobile Poland Trials Bitcoin Top-Ups for Mobile Customers
T-Mobile Poland customers can now purchase prepaid cellphone credit with bitcoin. The new service, which comes about via a partnership with local bitcoin payment processor InPay S. A., is being rolled out as a three-month trial that aims to see how popular bitcoin payments will be with prepaid telephone users. A spokesperson from T-Mobile Poland told CoinDesk: "Our team is constantly looking for new opportunities, partnerships and cooperations with startups bringing great ideas. One of the reasons behind this initiative was to test how quick and comfortable the top-up process could be.....
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