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Economy => Economics => Topic started by: Tinua on October 28, 2016, 12:59:24 PM



Title: SBB (Swiss railway company): Make quick and easy purchases with Bitcoin.
Post by: Tinua on October 28, 2016, 12:59:24 PM
Just WOW!
The Swiss railway company will sell start from 11.11.2006 Bitcoins to its over 1000 ticket machines.
http://www.sbb.ch/en/station-services/services/further-services/bitcoin.html (http://www.sbb.ch/en/station-services/services/further-services/bitcoin.html)

The bitcoin mainstream future has begun in Switzerland!


Title: Re: SBB (Swiss railway company): Make quick and easy purchases with Bitcoin.
Post by: pitham1 on October 29, 2016, 01:42:33 AM
Just WOW!
The Swiss railway company will sell start from 11.11.2006 Bitcoins to its over 1000 ticket machines.
http://www.sbb.ch/en/station-services/services/further-services/bitcoin.html (http://www.sbb.ch/en/station-services/services/further-services/bitcoin.html)

The bitcoin mainstream future has begun in Switzerland!

This is big news. But will this sustain?
Let us see what happens when the novelty factor wears off.


Title: Re: SBB (Swiss railway company): Make quick and easy purchases with Bitcoin.
Post by: funkenstein on November 02, 2016, 03:01:59 PM
Hüüre geil!!! 


Title: Re: SBB (Swiss railway company): Make quick and easy purchases with Bitcoin.
Post by: leopard2 on November 08, 2016, 02:14:59 AM
sounds nice at first, but this sucks ass:

Requirements:
    Swiss mobile phone number


Technically absolutely useless, you do not need a mobile phone number to receive Bitcoins. It is a fascist piece of KYC rubbish. And discrimination against any person who does not reside in Switzerland.  :(

The legal limit for cash transactions to buy precious metals in Switzerland is CHF 25 000

The legal limit for other cash transactions is infinity.

Yet these bastards collect your phone no. for a mini purchase of CHF 500 (swiss phone no. is typically only available with ID)...not recommended. Imagine what they can do with such a database and a bit of blockchain analysis...  :o


Title: Re: SBB (Swiss railway company): Make quick and easy purchases with Bitcoin.
Post by: Yakamoto on November 08, 2016, 02:59:26 AM
Just WOW!
The Swiss railway company will sell start from 11.11.2006 Bitcoins to its over 1000 ticket machines.
http://www.sbb.ch/en/station-services/services/further-services/bitcoin.html (http://www.sbb.ch/en/station-services/services/further-services/bitcoin.html)

The bitcoin mainstream future has begun in Switzerland!
That's actually a pretty neat addition to Switzerland, I never though that they'd really be expanding it in such an aggressive manner, but I guess there's a first for everything. Wasn't there an article not too long ago related to something like 11,000 stores offering Bitcoin payments as well? I didn't think that their ail system was going to be included in all of this.

Or, the wealthy of the world are seeing something in Bitcoin. Might be worth keeping an eye on.