Italian Taxi Firm Now Accepts Bitcoin
Italy’s biggest taxi firm, Cooperative RadioTaxi 3570, announced earlier this month that it is now accepting the digital currency, bitcoin, as a form of payment to its customers, according to Bitcoin.com. With 3,700 cars in the capital of Italy, answering 30,000 calls a day, and providing more than 10,000,000 taxi services throughout a year, it is the biggest taxi firm in Europe. This announcement further expands the companies reach at a time when bitcoin’s growth shows no signs of slowing. Bitcoin Made Possible. Through the partnership with Chainside, a startup located in London and Italy....
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Italians in a rush can now call on bitcoin to get them where they’re going. One of Italy’s largest taxi fleets, Cooperativa RadioTxi 3570, now accepts bitcoin for fares. The company recently joined hands with Chainside, a startup that allows businesses to accept bitcoin payments. Customers can download the Chainside app to their mobile phones or smart devices and pay their fees through the quick touch of a button. The company provides taxi services to anyone visiting a large Italian city. Whether it’s Rome or Venice, tourists and travelers can get their sights on with a little help from....
Italy’s largest taxi fleet, Cooperativa RadioTaxi 3570, now accepts bitcoin. The company boasts over 3,700 cars in Rome, providing more than 10 million cab services each year. About RadioTaxi 3570. Created in November 1968 by a little more than 100 founding members, RadioTaxi 3570 is “the Roman radio cab cooperative belonging to Roman taxi drivers who....
Thanks to a new service called Chainside, from now on you can book an Italian classic taxi and pay for it with Bitcoin. Unione Radiotaxi d’Italia (URI) and its president Loreno Bittarelli decided to accept Bitcoin after the Taxi Hack Hackathon held in Rome last year. It is not the first time we have heard that a transport company has decided to accept Bitcoin. We wrote about Uber switching to Bitcoin in Argentina after the government blocked its credit cards. New taxi platform. Through a platform called ItTaxi you can pay for your taxi ride in Rome in advance, by calculating your itinerary....
Ask your average London cabbie or New York cab driver whether they know what bitcoin is and they're likely to give you an "eh?" and a blank look. With this in mind, the likelihood of finding a taxi that accepts payment in digital currency is extremely slim. However, slowly but surely, this is starting to change. Lithuanian taxi firm JazzExpress started accepting bitcoin on 20th September this year. Jonas Gilys, development director at the company, said he and his colleagues first heard about bitcoin back in 2009, when they also started mining the cryptocurrency. "We decided to start....
Il Giornale, a conservative and sometimes controversial Italian newspaper serving the metropolitan area of Milan, has started accepting bitcoin for subscriptions to its premium PDF edition. An annual subscription costs 42 euro cents per day and the PDF version is optimised for Android and iOS smartphones and tablets. The paper already accepts all major credit cards and PayPal. It now claims to be the first newspaper in Italy and Europe to accept bitcoin. Italian bitcoiners react. The community response to il Giornale's decision to embrace bitcoin has been largely positive, but some....