Australian Bus App Drops Bitcoin Following Poor Traction
Canberra's mobile transport app MyBus 2.0 has stopped accepting bitcoin payments following poor traction with the digital currency. The MyBus 2.0 smartphone app, a timetable and route planner connected to the Australian capital's bus network, removed the bitcoin payment option in January. Zakaria Bouguettaya, director at QPay, the company behind the application, told the Brisbane Times the app had only processed 23 bitcoin payments in nine months. During the same period, he said, the number of non-bitcoin transactions amounted to 3,226. Speaking to CoinDesk, the director spoke of the....
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