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It's often seen that getting tourist to come is difficult and those that do manage to come often struggle with currency fluctuations, recent ones being when euro broke down, and in India news which is getting global attention Rs. 500 and 1000 notes invalid. In all this this is a welcome news that Bitcoins is accepted in dubai also now, cheers to the entire community.

Blockchain can ‘gamify’ tourism https://cointelegraph.com/news/dubai-and-norway-use-blockchain-to-redefine-tourism

Is this are not repost? There is the old topic is same with this one, and I told you if you can lock this one.  ??? because over the 2 times I see that link appeared in here.   ??? maybe if I'm wrong. but interesting how many the bitcoin will get accepted time to the time.

yes it is very nice as it sounds, it is marked that in every country today has taken into account the potential benefits of the use bitcoin as to financial transactions in the Internet world. I really hope my country can use for the benefit of bitcoin transactions offline. in order to facilitate the buying and selling by using bitcoin as a major transaction.

I can't wait for the day when bitcoin is more widely accepted for everyday items across the globe, imagine never having to be bothered by exchange rates again when you travel.  It would be like the Euro 2.0 without the limitations.

Yes that day is coming very soon. Swizz has started accepting it, now dubai also follows suit. Even school have started accepting it. I wish all countries start accepting it as a global currency. Atms and at gad counters. It will make life so much easier, like roam with virtual cash, no need to pay in noted ever. Let's hope this comes soon

Well, I hope they will accept bitcoin in Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates soon. I want to visit them to ride the Formula Rossa, the world's fastest roller coaster with a top speed of 239 km/h (149 mph).

Ferrari World Abu Dhabi was named the "Middle East's Leading Tourist Attraction" at the World Travel Awards 2015. It is the first and only Ferrari-branded theme park and has the record for the largest space frame structure ever built.

Now, that would be another bucket list item ticked, if I could manage to visit them and pay for everything in bitcoins.

Amazing that Dubai always on the forefront of technology and innovation. They have the money to spend and implement any new project. They are fast, to try any technology and let it be enjoy by their residents.

yess it s very interesting to hear  that the use of bitcoins is increasing day by day .well u know that i guess germany accept bitcoins in pubs and bars for a very long time . well for tourists in india  they should start some account such as bitcoins and they can be very useful too ..i guess the day will come when india will accept bitcoins also..

if this is true then the bitcoin world will experience a remarkable improvement. use bitcoin will become bigger and bitcoin prices also expected to rise higher. dubai can be a pioneer in the use of modern bitcoin.

Interesting, but what can I see is Dubai use blockchain, according to the article, there's no mention bitcoin, instead blockchain.
There's a country who use blockchain as well for their government system. They prefer to use blockchain technology than using bitcoin too, maybe it currency too volatile for them.

Anyway there's no rule out possibility dubai start using bitcoin as payment. It will be mass.

you get the wrong point from the news above,in the news they don't mention anything about bitcoin and its relationship with dubai,in other side dubai only implement blockchain system to 'gamify' tourism,and implementing blockchain doesn't mean it's implementing bitcoin,bitcoin use blockchain system but blockchain system getting used by various cryptocoins

Accpeting Bitcoin and adopting Blockchain technology are two different thing, Bitcoin is a currency while Blockchain is the technology behind Bitcoin and can also be applied to different sectors including Healthcare, Agriculture, Tourism and Financial sectors. If Dubai decided to start accepting Bitcoin that will be very great

Slowley but surely Bitcoin is spreading. Even in the Arab world. Dubai is progressive so this is maybe not so strange but stil it's a big move.
Even if at the moment they accept only blockchain technology this could be a step forward to accept Bitcoin. Hope there will be more similar news each day.

wow thats good news for UAE, maybe this might influence the price as well, i don't know

It's not Dubai accepting Bitcoin. It's some kind of magic B-L-O-C-K-C-H-A-I-N tourism marketing initiative. Some Blockchain fool was successful in convincing a few even greater fools at semi-official government agencies that spending money on some buzzwords is a good idea. "Gamifying" tourist visits - can it get any more ridiculous? An outstandingly efficient way to waste money if you ask me.

A lot of people in government related position have not the slightest clue what Bitcoin and its blockchain are, but are unwilling to admit it. That's why there are many salesmen successful in marketing snake oil to them.

The true innovation is Bitcoin, the decentralized currency. The blockchain is only a necessary technological prerequisite to enable this great innovation. Banks and governments are in denial of this simple fact, because it means that they will loose their power. That's why they frantically focus on "Blockchain Technology".

ya.ya.yo!

I'm not surprise at all,dubai is an open business centre and they will welcome anything that is revolutionary and timely,I hope it's not only Dubai but the entire arab world will in the future.

Nice to hear:) Now if they'd just pay those poor Bangladeshi workers.

Not only does this remind me of a system to earn from Frequent Flyer points by visiting Dubai, but at the same time with the act of gamifying tourism in Dubai it would greatly promote Tourism by paving avenues for tourists to visit several other lesser known tourist attractions within the country and I'm sure a lot of visitors will be amazed to see a lot more than just dune bashing and the Burj Khalifa once they visit Dubai. I hope people get to experience the cultural heritage and collect enough of those dynamic redemption 'Dubai points' to visit a lot of great places.

I'm sure that with blockchain being a part of the points based loyalty redemption campaign, it'll boost involvement in other Blockchain based projects and perhaps instill merchants over there to accept Bitcoins for several Bitcoin enthusiast tourists looking for a short or long stay.

Since they've mentioned about the Dubai Global Blockchain council being involved in this project, I remember there was a CoinDesk article that mentioned that bigger IT companies like IBM were a part of their project campaign and they had increased focus on storing Health records like X-rays, Business registrations and Tourism Engagement (incentivized to visit places) as a part of their agenda. I'm glad they're taking tourism engagement a step forward with this.

I am the forever Optimist about moves like this.. today it's some kind of obscure Blockchain spinoff of Bitcoin and tomorrow it will be Bitcoin.

As soon as this is picked up by the mainstream media, more VC capital will flow into other projects... some of them might even be Bitcoin

projects. So let's not make quick judgement about this, and just go with the flow. You cannot throw the baby out, with the bath

water ...right.  ???

Wow, it is such an amazing news today. It is the disaster when Trump becomes a new USA president, which means people from other countries will not be allowed to become a part of America. Thanks to Dubai, thanks for accepting Bitcoin. It makes me happier now :)

I did not understand good enough - is bitcoin allowed in the country and now citizens can make money with bitcoin or bitcoin will be accepted as payment in Dubai hotels and for services? Well, both variands seem good.
 Hope it will make bitcoin's price to grow and will affect good on bitcoin in the point of it's development.

if this news is true, then this is the coolest news I saw today. Amusement dubai is a very good and very attractive in my opinion. so many cool things that are in dubai, and even many people who have a lot of money on holiday there. if they accept bitcoin, I guess it would be something cool to use

Yes, I didn't understand very well also, but I don't think the hotels and another stores will accept BTCs soon there. They want to use BTC technology to increase the tourism there, but don't mention if we could use BTCs to pay on restaurant, hotels, etc...

I think those news are speculative, the reality is different from what they are saying.

Every expand of bitcoin is a great news, Dubai is center of Arab world, they build that city every year higher and higher. They have a lot of foreigners that works there, from almost every part of the world ( mostly poor part ) and for them this is great thing, they will send money to their families in more simpler and cheaper way.
Slowly bitcoin is infiltrating in big cities, just recently New York made some laws about bitcoin, now Dubai, Rio has many stores, looks like big cities are leading in adaptation, look they should. In the end rest of us will come in line definitely.

thats a good news after all. my country is already facing a huge rush as our dear pm has suddenly teken decesion to ban the 500 and 1000 notes and now everyone is trying to deposit them at banks or trying to exchange them

I think this is the old story but it is still good news for those who did not know.. and i hope more countries will accept bitcoin without banning because bitcoin is more active in gambling than buying or shopping..
And more good news if bitcoin will be have atm near to my place and banks for bitcoin so that more trust more people and investors will come..

yeah i heard that bitcoin is acceptable in Dubai and bitcoin is nowadays available in everywhere through bitcoin credit card so we can easily use bitcoin in everywhere around the world and we can get a good facility from bitcoin but there is many country who do not know about bitcoin.

Yes, this is the grate news for bitcoin.

It's a good news, although it would be better if you could tell us in detail like what services or goods or both being offered against btc

If Dubai and Norway has started to accept bitcoin does it mean that this was the reason of the recent pump of the price? Both countries are rich and spending a little in bitcoin wouldn't hurt them.

Nicely f***ing put rofl. Durp.


That and the US has a freaking lunatic at the wheel now haha.


Exactly. Did the whole city just decide that they were now going to accept bitcoins? How exactly does that work?

This was very great the dubai accepts bitcoin then much better to make bitcoin to be remittance center for our OFW there, and i will recommend it to my cousins to make their remittance instantly.

I've been to dubai. It's really hot there... you get roasted, if you are not in a tower or car with air condition.

Yeah, it's a great way to import more money in form of bitcoin :D

it would be very good if we could start seeing bitcoin being accepted everywhere especially in these countries that have tourism, because it is super easy to spend bitcoin instead of going through all the headache of exchanging money to another money and spending that there.

Do you people read anything you're commenting on?  That article doesn't mention Bitcoin at all. They're thinking about making their own Blockchain for "Dubai Points" (whatever the fuck that is). Does nothing for us.

I think its the US election results for the sudden pump of bitcoin although this happening in Dubai and Norway is also a possibility. We can speculate anyway. But I am glad Dubai is very open to this bitcoin and willing to try it.

This could be just another gimmick and that they just want to ride the bandwagon. We keep hoping for Bitcoin to "get adopted by the mainstream" when its real strength comes from enabling markets that the banks and payment processors do not want to serve. That means the darknet markets, criminals, hackers, illegal gambling sites operating outside of regulation, etc.  When I read titles of articles like that, I just roll my eyes and ignore the news. The current centralized systems is already more efficient and cheaper to use for their use case.

Dubai is an economic power and great business hub in the arab world,what they implement in their economy can and could impact the other arab nation,so I consider this a great news in the bitcoin community ..

I have to chuckle that so many things have happened to encourage stuff like this to be honest, really goes to show that we live in really interesting times. The compounding effects of everything are hilarious to watch.

Oh well, maybe one day I'll go to someplace like Dubai and use my Bitcoin there. That's far in the future and to be honest likely out of the cards, but I'll see.

I am sure you will be able to find someone accepting bitcoin is any country- but this does mean that the "country" accepts bitcoin. AED vs USD is extremely stable and I don't think many people in Dubai is actively seeking alternative currencies, unlike countries like Venezuela and Argentina.

I think Dubai decided to adopt bitcoins because of its numerous tourists - trying to make it easier for them to spend money without having to convert to fiat.

10months back I've been to Dubai on a visit. During those days I found very few bitcoin traders in the city region while I was to convert btc to fiat. Now the current news of bitcoin acceptance into Dubai tourism gets much importance from people travelling to Dubai.

Wow good news :) thats bitcoin is for all people and for all country and dubai is very advanced country because of adnvanced technologyand more business. I hope dubai using also as bitcoin payment for their payments. Bitcoin is more powerful this year and the next year. More country plss accept bitcoin.

Dubai is one of the entrances to the Arab and Asia countries, hopefully with the receipt of the Bitcoin in Dubai can make the Cities and other countries in Arabic or Asia to accept bitcoin including my country (India).

this is a nice news and strangely enough from cointelegraph which makes it hard to believe :)

but I think this is a good start even if it is not as good as it sounds but eventually using bitcoin which is the only money that can be used globally in every single place around the world, is a great start towards the adoption we are all hoping for.

It's a good progress of bitcoin to widely using all over the world as accepted and mainstream payment that more flexible and fast transaction which could replace paper money. The price will increase as well along its use,  another thing to note is the regulation of bitcoin use in those countries, how it will support bitcoin and how much stores, hotel, restaurants that accepted bitcoin.

Awesome, when Dubai Wii accept bitcoin then obviously there will be price rise in bitcoin in my view because all rich people resides in Dubai and they will demand heavy bitcoin when they Will know the advantages of bitcoin. Dubai is going to play a significant role in bitcoin market very soon. Waiting for that great moment.

It's another good news in bitcoin world because when developed country like Dubai started to accept bitcoin then I think it's demand will increase as tourist would use it more to pay for bill with bitcoin as exchanged money someone's get over nad one have no option to pay bill. Or it could make their transaction easier with bitcoin

If that is true. Honestly, I see it coming. I am hoping that someday, Bitcoin will be used in any form of transactions anywhere globally. Since we are on Digital age, I think we are almost there. Since many people now are getting interested with bitcoin, higher chances are, it will be possible. Soon, Bitcoin will also be in public here in my country 😁.

What do you mean bitcoin is accepted in Dubai, what everyone in the country no matter where you shop will accept bitcoin ?

This has nothing to do with BTC nor its values, which are freedom and decentralization. This is about centralization, and tracking of all foreigners visiting the country by recording all their moves in a blockchain.

It's not a game, except for the rulers who will have all the foreign visitors on a virtual leash.

I think this is a good news for us, but I doubt because Dubai citizens not know about bitcoin, if in Singapore I think is better.

the funny thing is that the article is not even mentioning bitcoin in it! so your topic is completely irrelevant and this is about an altcoin because they are talking about the "blockchain" which is only the technology of bitcoin which they probably are going to use to make their own chain aka altcoin and do everything that way!

Sooner or later it will really be happen that bitcoin is more widely accepted across the globe. Actually its the future of bitcoin from the very start to all countries in the world.

Now let's see the game because Dubai week play a significant role in bitcoin all are millionaire in Dubai and they would demand heavy from bitcoin and and it's price will increase. Dubai is also my preferred holiday destination and I would also love to pay for bill in bitcoin so I think there are many user like me who loves bitcoin and wants to transact in bitcoin

Now let's see the game because Dubai week play a significant role in bitcoin all are millionaire in Dubai and they would demand heavy from bitcoin and and it's price will increase. Dubai is also my preferred holiday destination and I would also love to pay for bill in bitcoin so I think there are many user like me who loves bitcoin and wants to transact in bitcoin

Why are you double posting the same thing? But I'm reply to your post yes I feel btc prices shall be surging up very soon. As one can see swizz has accepted it for a railway tickets, and it's just a tip of the ice ❄. More and more shall follow it very soon, who knows all currencies one day could be replaced by btc. Way long but let's hope for the best

i personally visited Dubai and a lot of my friends ae there in Dubai, but i think there is the same situation as here in my county, their government has also not yet given any statement about bitcoin that either bitcoin is legal there or not, and therefore people are yet using bitcoin as legal currency.

This story made little sense to me when it was posted,reason I held off responding to it.
But I can not shake the idea of getting caught up in some unknown laws or custom break that would have you potentially in a bad place.
Rather not risk my skin on my back over a need to use bitcoin on holidays in countries like this one.

Huh? What do you mean they accept it now? Dubai isn't a store or something so how does a whole city accept bitcoin overnight? I didn't understand a lot of the article.

Each time we get news like this, it helps to secure bitcoin's potential to succeed. It helps people realize that there is some value in using and investing in bitcoin.

this doesn't look like bitcoin acceptance to me, maybe i understood the article wrong but it is only about blockchain not bitcoin.

but i hope someday countries like this which are great in tourism start accepting bitcoin, because usage of bitcoin for tourist is a lot better and easier than usage of their local money and it is still helping their economy because it is money entering their country.

The title of the article obviously said it all, they only use the idea of blockchain in a way of promoting tourism in dubai the Dubai Points which is blockchain based system and the article not mentioned that they are accepting bitcoin..

But if its really true, then its a good news to implement bitcoin in any country as one of their currency.

how bitcoin can help a country bro?

Congratulations Dubai! Good luck catching up with the rest of the world in other areas like basic human rights. I'd say we give it another hundred years or so.

Sounds cool. It gives a strong move for bitcoin seeing one of the modern countries is also evolving in terms of payments. There have been a lot of bad opinions about bitcoin and this one could lift up the good reason to own a bitcoin at least.

Dubai is hardly a "modern" country. It is backwards, primitive, and a failure in regards to basic human rights. The only reason people think Dubai is all fancy and civilized is because they managed to use their oil money and handouts from the Western world to distract us from its inability to provide for their working classes, as well as their religious intolerance by creating a bunch of tall buildings. Don't forget, that the cheap Indian labor they used to build those tall buildings were later beheaded/deported. Dubai is the Shah Jahan of the Middle Eastern world.

They are only implementing Bitcoin to boom the tourist market. They quite literally ban poor people from being on the only premises that white people that go for tourism there see. Those are the only places you are going to see Bitcoin machines/vendors/end users. The rest of Dubai is pretty much like the third world.

That's good news. I hope more country or city in 'arab' can accept bitcoin as alternative payment method.

I heard that some companies or 'investor' from there already researching about blockchain technology too.

It is dubais culture that seems they are primitive but I know they are cathcing up. They are always open to innovations and ideas. They are fast to implement new technologies. Currently they approved the first hyperloop project.

All is well, another big player came into our bitcoin network. I have faith in Dubai it would definitely play a great role and a role of big brother in near future because all rich people resides there and they would all deal with bitcoin of millions and 100 thousand so that traders could have more profit and  we could see development in bitcoin world. Thanks Dubai for joining bitcoin.

there is no doubt that Dubai is always keeping up with technology , but the article is talking about blockchain not bitcoin itself
there are couple of places that accept bitcoins in Dubai , but we can just simply say that Dubai accepts bitcoin

Dubai is studying the possibility of creating a new payment system , but I really doubt that this will be bitcoin

seems nice to me. dubai is always know as the place for rich humans they always hier best candidates from all over the world and give them jobs they are also vwry developed to many things specially through the technology

am happy to hear this...its a real goodnews, though more to come!!!!

Yes they are studying this system and some of places already accepted like some other countries there is nothing special as many already posting here if they will try to implement then its need some time but its not going to happen in near future

It is good to hear that bitcoins are now accepted in some countries. But i think the article is all about blockchain. And there is no discussion about bitcoin in the said article. But then it's a good point that some countries would accept bitcoin. I think it could promote tourism since tourists from other countries that uses bitcoins will get an ease in paying if a country accepts bitcoin.

Well, if bitcoin really welcome in dubai, dubai then it would be a very cool for bitcoin users. it may be very many bitcoin holders who have bitcoin very much to come visit there. maybe they will see bitcoin developments that have taken place there. Well, if dubai more advanced because bitcoin, probably the world are beginning to accept bitcoin

Exactly the same as what I am thinking. There are a lot of individuals out there trying to form "blockchain" companies and most of them do not know really what they are doing. The just want to use the "blockchain" because it is the "in" thing and they want to get money from VC's and thru ICO's. The funny thing is all of these "blockchain" companies have no real world use case and will all fail in the long run. Do not be tricked by these snake oil salesmen.

I think what he mean was, Bitcoins was already recognise in dubai and you can use it there as a real money. This is great if that so! but upon research, the articles didnt say bitcoins but instead of blockchain. The true innovation is Bitcoin, the decentralised currency. The blockchain is only a necessary technological prerequisite to enable this great innovation. Banks and governments are in denial of this simple fact, because it means that they will loose their power. That's why they frantically focus on "Blockchain Technology".

i would argue the other way round. the blockchain ist the revolutionary technology and it is what gives bitcoin its value. bitcoin has rigth now an advantage because it was here first and is further developed then most other chains. this can change. dubai can throw some money around and the development of chains can explode, so better keep an eye on this.

in my opinion,bitcoin really have nothing to do with these blockchain project which the main purpose is "gamify" tourism,even if bitcoin also based on blockchain system aswell,dubai only aiming to implement the blockchain technology because they just have their own local currency (fiat) i guess

That's the point. They are so wealthy, yet so primitive. It just stuns me. I really don't think Dubai will benefit from this, since Bitcoin users are believers in progressivism which Dubai lacks.

i do not know if this is true, but i can see why this could be the case. they have some bad advisers that you want to profit of of them and/or they have so much money that they just try things out. if it works great if not they try the next idea.