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Should we start a petition to these people?

Imagine the possibility! I think Lyft will respond faster!

I think it's very interesting ,,, and certainly will facilitate us when we ride both ,,, which became my question ,, whether it can happen and when it comes into force? I think its a small possibility ,,,
it's okay to plan because it's human task is to plan ...

The problem is the processing time for bitcoin is too slow and unreliable, it's not like ordering online where you can wait for the bitcoin transaction to be processed prior to shipping the product.

The speed time is really what's delaying the wide adoption of bitcoin but this would be pretty awesome if lyft/uber did this.

If that will be the case it is extremely beneficial to the commuters who will avail of their services. Aside from efficiency the drivers cannot make ask for extra pay because everything will be recorded in the transaction and the clients can use that as evidence against them. Hope this will be implemented this will be a good start for bitcoin and the transportation groups.

Prepaid! Buy in advance and have prepaid account, then as you use they deduct based on realtime value of the bitcoin.

I never encounter any driver that is asking for extra pay. I don't know where you are located but it seems not normal for Uber to ask for it. It's already recorded in their system how much you gonna pay the moment they accept you as passenger.

Going back to the topic. Yes it's gonna be huge for bitcoin market if ever both of them started to accept bitcoin as payment. However, the issue I'm seeing is that those driver should be teach how bitcoin/blockchain technology works. Like teach them how to check the transaction in blockchain to see that the rider or passenger has already payed.

I think it is up for them to surely accept bitcoin in every transaction, even if we file a petition that we want them to use bitcoin as a means of payment, I think this is a step forward because in every driver that they hired must accept bitcoin so I think they will surely teach each and everyone of them and it will surely up to each driver if they comply to it, and the knowledge in using bitcoin well I think they might have a problem with that.

Uber might become my nr 1 btc spending app :D

I took my first ever Uber ride yesterday!

You are right as the time involved in the transaction can be a big hindrance for the full adoption of Bitcoin for these networks of transportation. However, am sure that in the near future there would be an infrastructure that can handle this problem. I really expect that there would be a good development along this line because the market is really big and can be a lucrative one once adopted by many organizations and business. We should note that Bitcoin is still relatively young and it is still evolving. The news on Amazon is actually fake but we do expect that they will soon accept Bitcoin as it be a big push for the King of Cryptos.

It is a good idea because almost all of developing country has an uber services. It will make bitcoin more popular and more people will use it. The demand will increase and the price will go higher.

That's very good news!

The more companies start accepting and integrating bitcoin to there system the more popular it will become.

This is a good idea as it is an alternative way to pay your trips. However, we should consider if the driver is into Bitcoins. A lot of people are not interested to Bitcoin which includes some drivers. If the purpose is to just transact digitally, then it would be just the same as paying in debit card or credit card because it is already synced in the device of the rider.

The solutiom for me is to accept Bitcoin payments.if the driver agrees so. If not, then payment should be done in the currency being used in the country.

Here in my country which is Philippines, we are using Coins.ph BTC wallet and one of its features is Virtual Credit Card. We can instantly and easily convert bitcoin funds to the virtual credit card and use them in paying Uber or Grab fee. It also offer unique voucher codes to use for discount in uber and grab

network is not ready yet...

I think it's better to wait until segwit is up before implementing or trying to make petition as the network is slow right now. The fee also hindered this kind of adoption as i don't want to pay $1 fee for 5 dollar transaction.

It is a good thing to have a successful petition, the petition will be an added support for the new CEO of Uber for easily adoption of bitcoin as a payment. Uber will now know that they already have a client willing to support the bitcoin payment.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/uber-gets-early-bitcoin-advocate-as-new-ceo

there is no Uber in my country but doesn't Uber already accept bitcoin, i remember reading something about it some time ago!

in any case if you can find enough people that actually want this, then why not. make a petition or just directly contact them and show your interest. they may do it if they see enough demand for it.

Last I heard Uber already is accepting Bitcoin for tipping, but I did not know they are planning to accept it for regular payments. That is very cool.  8)

I think uber only allows to tip the drivers with bitcoins, they don't take payment yet. it would be really nice if they start taking payments in bitcoin and or altcoins, sooner or later they will start accepting cryptocurrency payments it's inevitable! ;)

They were thinking about letting users tip with Bitcoin if I remember correctly. They don't currently accept it as payment. It's a step towards the right direction at least.

But yeah, starting a petition might be the best way to grab their attention. How many signatures do you think we may need to make a splash?

I would strongly agree with this ,, because when Uber & Lyft to accept Bitcoin payment ,. this will make it easier for us to use the services of uber and lyft ,, it would be possible if we become one user who always8 use bitcoin payment,. in addition to the practical payment we also do not need to exchange our bitcoin to fiat currency to pay for services Uber & Lyft...

i think this is great idea maybe sooner can accept bitcoin uber & lyft but need to learn how bitcoin to be working better for that prediction because i believe there's are nothing impossible if want to implement that idea's another success for the bitcoin for the said project.

I'm shocked that they already don't! I 100% agree, they should accept, its so easy its unreal and they are all in the "new" generation of innovation.

I do not think we can pay Uber by bitcoin feasible
As the price of uber is quite cheap, even the shorter amount of money to pay is very low or when there are promotions.
Secondly, it is about high BitCoin charges. I'm afraid the bitcoin transaction fee is much larger than the actual transaction fee
Third, the bitcoin trading speed is quite long,
Paying cash or bank cards is still more feasible than bitcoin at the moment

petition what you mean ,. a positive thing if it really happened. this is a phenomenon and a new breakthrough, crypto future is increasingly visible, many of the countries that take the opportunity to engage in bitcoin.

I gave my opinion on the bitcoin payment for the Uber service
At this reply I would like to say that instead of being able to pay by bitcoin, we can use a separate currency, not Bitcoin, but based on the Blockchain or ETH platform to help us advance to the epoch. Money numbers hoas all areas of life

Nice idea! It would be very convenient for us if they'll just gonna accept BTC as a mode of payment for our rides in their service. I'm a regular Uber rider here in our place and this would save me some penny if I'm gonna use BTC. It is quite possible because they are using smartphone as their main device to navigate the streets and we all know that there are some notable BTC app integrated in smartphones nowadays. Uber drivers could have some learning curve regarding BTC but that is always accompanied when new tech is being introduced to other people. Hopefully, they'll gonna consider this one.

it is hard to say, because it depends on them. some people are more flexible towards bitcoin and doing stuff like this than others. so one CEO may require a lot of push where another may only need a nudge.
it also depends on how many customer they have. i'd say in comparison the signatures have to be a good percentage of their customers.

I think the best strategy would be to approach one - maybe you are correct about Lyft. If Lyft made an announcement about accepting BTC, then Uber I am certain would not want to be left flat-footed and would also join the party.

Cool idea, When are you going to approach them?

Man if Uber and Amazon get on the BTC train, it's game over for the dollah.  8)

Uber will definitely start accepting bitcoins, to my mind. It could be really convenient for many Uber users, especially for tourists, I think, and I suppose such company will do its best to keep up with the clients.
The main question is when they're going to do this, I think, it will happen gradually. Some countries will have to wait anyway, because there are still problems with paying for taxi by credit card, I'm not sure we are ready to speak about crypto currency in this situation.

What is good news?
The thread is about making a petition for Uber and Lyft to accept bitcoins.
None of them is accepting BTC right now and none is currently planing.
Are we starting another amazon fake story?


It'a a tip app that was integrated by some uber drivers.
They made it more like a pr stunt.

If they do choose to work with btc they would have to make some sort of wallets mimicking a prepaid card where your funds are locked when you order a cab.
It's a bit complicated and it will have to take into account the exchange rate, a lot of security, and a lot of legal papers as uber will hold some of your funds just like paypal is doing.

 

Amen plus 1

really what do you say?
I am a bit confused with what the OP said, maybe this will be good for my understanding and knowledge.

Everyone wants to earn more and if these those companies wants to be progressive and to get huge profit from their services they must accept bitcoin as payment, this will bring more good days for the bitcoin user as well as the UBER, this is one of the best ideas and if it will be implemented people will use their bitcoins in good way.

This is going to be great. I've already expected this to happen before. With the popularity of bitcoin, there's no doubt that big companies and businesses will accept it in exchange of their services. I've heard that Uber has already started accepting bitcoin as payment for their service. It is not really something new at all since we are using money in paying products and services, but the convenience that bitcoin brings to people is what makes life of people easier.

Uber is the first to accept Bitcoin. Lyft only copied them because they are the competition.

Uber and Lyft accepting Bitcoin would be a really good thing for them to do but I'm not sure how many people are spending their bitcoins these days as so many people are HODLing right now.

Heard of Uber, but never heard of Lyft.

I don't know.  You'd have to be able to solve the confirmation time problem.  You don't want
to be sitting in someone's car waiting forever.  You know how long it takes sometimes to get
that first confirmation.

Honestly, I'd rather pay for a ride with cash.  It's more anonymous and way faster than
bitcoin.  So no, I wouldn't bother with a useless online petition.  Leave it be.

True, it’s possible if the payment system is prepaid and every 1 Bitcoin we deposit there the value will remain same with the one in uber/lyft wallet account. This will be a big market and also increase the fame of bitcoin  at the same time.

Maybe the petition you submitted will be successful but still there are many problems we face in this case, besides the long transaction time issue, then large fee just for a fairly small transaction, and also the readiness of the drivers to receive payments through Bitcoin, they should have a good training so they won’t incurred loss and make a system that facilitate the transaction, either for passenger or the driver.

Any product or services that accept bitcoin as payment is by means beneficial since it increases the reputation of bitcoins to the general public. In this case, the more retailers accept it as a payment, more people would realize and start to invest into bitcoin, thus attracting new investors daily. If in the event that bitcoin were to be used by at least most of the population, then each country's government would consider improving the system. Soon, the bitcoin era would focus on providing opportunities to everyone and may be part of a solution in alleviating poverty.

You do have a point but when speaking on confirmation time you wont really need to wait since once the bitcoins have been trasnfered already it cant be reversed which means you can directly leave the cab once you have paid but it would really be a senseless thing if we do try to look on the fee this will surely hurt you up than on paying up on your local fiat money since its fixed and you wont really bother on other fee.That is why this thing is somehow impossible thing to happen or way they would able to accept such thing on bitcoin.Id rather prefer to stay on the traditional ways.

They will accept or reject Bitcoin depending on their interest, when they recognize that Bitcoin is useful for them, they will accept it without hesitance.

They would have been considering this option really but business decisions like this goes beyond petition and I think its still largely reliant on government approval because most of the major businesses are always concerned of the side of the law they want to belong to but where our petition should be directed at are the policy makers in which companies such as Uber or any other one are under obligations to comply with. Also even if the petition is successful which is obviously the case, large number will vote  yes but let's have it at the back of our mind that we might not get what we wanted but surely we are one step closer.

I think it is good to pay taxi with bitcoin but it's not practical because of bitcoin high fees for small transactions.

If only to pay a taxi may be too large transaction costs so that pay a large transaction rather than pay the taxi fare itself,
But this is great for bitcoin at the beginning of a small one. The very original process is not too burdensome, hopefully this can happen in my country..

This is a great start to the spread of bitcoins in many countries. And since the companies that take these taxis are sure that more companies will follow the steps of the previous ones. And as such there will be more and more familiar with crypto / Bitcoins worldwide and soon it will be a full currency

When bitcoin getting popular, every company will seek for bitcoin as their payment in order to get exposure from it. It's reasonable and win win solution because uber and user also get benefit from bitcoin transaction.
With government help , I think it will make easier for bitcoin to keep growing

https://cointelegraph.com/news/indian-self-drive-car-rental-firm-beats-uber-in-bitcoin-adoption

India based Self drive rental service Drivezy might beat both of them when talking about accepting bitcoin for payment  ;D

It would only be a win situation for the uber user not into its passenger since he do actively spend his bitcoin for this kind of travel service.I know this thing would really be gradually be considered knowing that bitcoin is getting popular and would be somehow considered to be a new way payment system but one thing worries me of is on the fees.For sure it wont really be justifiable.

Maybe its a good idea to pay to uber a bitcoin but it does have an downside too because of the unpredictable and pump and dump of the value of bitcoin. If the coins that we will pay will pump its a big difference because you can pay other bills using that coins just sayin..

For big companies like Uber and Lyft it is tough and complicated to implement it. Moreover the value fluctuation will be more complicated to manage their financial feasibility. Also as you said the network fees and time of confirmation is a drawback.
Cryptocurrency addition to their payment system will surely give a boost to Bitcoins and all and will promote it largely.

It's a good sign for all of us and to those company will adopt bitcoin.. well bitcoin volatility is the problem hope their are companies that will help to stop the volatile. Uber is the world's largest company and lyft i think its part of uber partnership. well this two will help to boost the bitcoin prices, and people will understand bitcoin.

Uber should better accept Bitcoin before they will be overcome by blockchain companies that will offer the same service as they do like, just decentralized like CarTaxi.

I don't like how they are doing that, though the system for Bitcoin is meant to be spent so I am not worried about it.

All companies work under government supervision. "Big brother is watching you". Both UBER and LYFT business models depends on local government and regulation. There companies won't accept BTC or other altcoins before its legalize.

Uber or Lyft can use blockchain technology to create new features, but won't use crypto in the nearest future.

Lyft is still hanging in there? I amr eally surprised ocnsidering how dominant Uber is in the field. Lyft is only trying to stop them from becoming an absolute monopoly. ;D ;D ;D

One day this will going to happen because now the market capitalisation of bitcoin is increasing very fast. Even from last 4-5 months bitcoin jumps from 4k to q10k.
People are getting aware of bitcoin and using this technology. So it is good for uber and lyft to adopt this early for a smooth operations.

I do not think we should act swiftly to petition, but we slowly pass it on to them. because this takes a long process. after we gradually submit the petition, we just wait for the time to answer it.

That might be the present scenario, but the interest shown by those giant business people will surely take the bitcoin grow much high. In specific it'll increase the trust among the people who don't have a belief upon bitcoin at present. Maybe following them more corporates will directly enter the bitcoin acceptance into their business.

Yes,the huge time taken for confirmation would be a big issue.But if it gets accepted,definitely it would help bring bitcoin into the mainstream of daily usage.It would make it more popular and would make critics mouth shut who just blame that bitcoin could not be used as a currency.

Mainstream adoption of crypto is a good thing but the architecture of the Bitcoin itself is not fit for purpose. Would be better to use something with faster transactions but companies will just jump on the bandwagon

It is good if receiving and sending bitcoin is instant. There is a possibility but it might take a long way before they do. Bitcoin will become more popular and will be on a great demand by then.

It would be good to pay uber with BTC like Neteller and others good providers does.

After the announcement of future markets open to BTC, more and more industry leaders want to be involved to take off with the ecosystem. Just like AI/VR as hot keywords not long ago. Everybody wants to be a part of it.