Living Room of Satoshi Wins Best New Startup in Australia
Living Room of Satoshi, the intermediary that enables folks to pay their bills with Bitcoin, has been recognized by the wider business company for its innovation. In some ways to TechCrunch's Disrupt awards, the event is meant to highlight regional businesses who have pioneered new territory in their space. Living Room of Satoshi was one of the first companies to achieve the goal of enabling Bitcoin bill payments, and its user base has steadily grown since its launch about a year ago. Within a few months, they had done $150,000 in bill payments, charging no fees to the customer. The....
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A new bill paying cryptocurrency platform wins “Best Pitch” at the Technology & Innovation - The future of Digital Payments Conference recently held at the Sidney Hilton Hotel. If you are over 50 years old you probably remember sitting at the kitchen table each monday writing and mailing checks to pay your bills. Bill paying has always been either tedious or expensive and is often both. When this began to change with things like automatic bill payments and direct deposits, exorbitant fees and mistakes like overbilling started becoming commonplace. The Brisbane, Australia startup Living....
Recently, a service called the Living Room of Satoshi announced reopening its doors despite the unfair Australian goods and services tax (GST). Bitcoin business are hit hard by the GST ruling, and Living Room of Satoshi announced prior that it was closing shop due to the financial regulation. The service provides Australian residents with a way to pay bills and utilities with bitcoin while utilizing BPAY, a popular universal bill-payment system that nearly every major business uses. Through Living Room of Satoshi, Australians paid $150,000 worth of bills using bitcoin.
Australian Bitcoin startupLiving Room of Satoshi has resumed operations following their closure in October. Using the Living Room of Satoshi website, Australians can use bitcoin to pay any bills that utilize BPAY, an Australian electronic payment system. According to the company, the service caught on quickly; the Living Room of Satoshi processed more than $250,000 in bills from its launch in May until its closure. Also read: UK Treasury Seeking Regulation Advice From Bitcoin Community. Bitcoin Company Living Room of Satoshi Resumes Operations. The Living Room of Satoshi was forced to....
As Bitcoin grows in popularity, more use cases for the cryptocurrency pop up every day. This time, an Australia-based startup has created a service that allows citizens in the country to pay their household bills with Bitcoin. Paying Bills with Bitcoin. Dubbed the Living Room of Satoshi, the Australian startup allows users to pay their bills with Bitcoin by entering the details of the payment, choosing a payment system (bank account or BPay) and sending their coins to the BTC address shown. Yesterday Living Room of Satoshi tweeted: The Living Room of Satoshi’s new service supports payment....
There is still a few more days left for submitting comments to the NYDFS regarding the BitLicense, but for some Australian Bitcoin companies it is already too late. The Living Room of Satoshi has suspended all operations in light of the recent goods and services tax (GST) ruling on bitcoin. The Living Room of Satoshi was “a simple, secure way to pay your everyday Australian bills (electricity, rego, phone, credit card, etc) with bitcoin.” Unfortunately, under the new GST ruling, Living Room of Satoshi customers would be taxed once when sending funds to the company, and again when the....