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Title: Bitcoin Payments Are Accepted at Gas Stations
Post by: MightyStorm on May 12, 2015, 04:04:05 AM
https://i.imgur.com/pLTaZnN.jpg?1 (http://cointelegraph.com/news/114217/spectrocoin-integrates-bitcoin-payments-at-lukoil-gas-stations?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Bitcointalk&utm_term=evgeny)

Gas Stations in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia operated by Lukoil will now accept Bitcoin through a service called
SpectroCoin, which allows them to pay with Bitcoin at the pump.

Click image to read on...


Title: Re: Bitcoin Payments Are Accepted at Gas Stations
Post by: fryarminer on May 12, 2015, 06:10:39 AM
True story, I sent a request to Shell this morning asking if they would consider accepting Bitcoin.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Payments Are Accepted at Gas Stations
Post by: d3former on May 12, 2015, 06:17:17 AM
This is great news for bitcoin.  Many wars have been fought to get the $ accepted as the only currency for gas for a reason.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Payments Are Accepted at Gas Stations
Post by: Kprawn on May 12, 2015, 06:19:53 AM
Someone should make a little animation and send it to these Oil & Gas companies.

You have a QR Scanner built into the Gas pump, and you enter the amount, scan the QR code and once the transaction is confirmed { 1 confirmation } you can fill up with gas.

They can start with only 1 pump and as demand increase, they can add more pumps OR they can have Bitcoin enabled chargers for electric cars.  ;)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Payments Are Accepted at Gas Stations
Post by: louise123 on May 12, 2015, 06:41:27 AM
This is great news for bitcoin.  Many wars have been fought to get the $ accepted as the only currency for gas for a reason.

Ah, the PetroDollar...
Well, as far as I know, many countries are moving away from it now.
Russia, China, Brasil (I think), and some others.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Payments Are Accepted at Gas Stations
Post by: Jeremycoin on May 12, 2015, 06:44:08 AM
Wow, this is a very rapid progress. What will going to happen next? A market store accepting for Bitcoins?
So, I hope there will be more service that accepting Bitcoin :)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Payments Are Accepted at Gas Stations
Post by: trafficolaa on May 12, 2015, 07:45:23 AM
Wow, this is a very rapid progress. What will going to happen next? A market store accepting for Bitcoins?
So, I hope there will be more service that accepting Bitcoin :)
that is really great news about bright future of bitcoin after this big oil companies will also follow this trend to accept bitcoin as payment method and i hope in near future will see amazon will start accepting bitcoin for payment there.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Payments Are Accepted at Gas Stations
Post by: swaghard on May 12, 2015, 07:51:29 AM
Bitcoin and energy is a match we need!


Title: Re: Bitcoin Payments Are Accepted at Gas Stations
Post by: Kakmakr on May 12, 2015, 07:59:49 AM
I do not get it, is SpectroCoin a Alt coin? I am more exited about this xxx "vouchers, which can be used for non-digital off chain transactions among people."
Estonia’s central tax authority apply a 23% VAT (value-added tax) to the sale of bitcoins, so their government is getting their tax on the coins and on the pumps.



Title: Re: Bitcoin Payments Are Accepted at Gas Stations
Post by: Amph on May 12, 2015, 10:05:52 AM
I do not get it, is SpectroCoin a Alt coin? I am more exited about this xxx "vouchers, which can be used for non-digital off chain transactions among people."
Estonia’s central tax authority apply a 23% VAT (value-added tax) to the sale of bitcoins, so their government is getting their tax on the coins and on the pumps.



so you think that they are expanding bitcoin to more services on purpose, just to earn more on taxes? it could pretty be the case

or they just need to regulate more bitcoin...


Title: Re: Bitcoin Payments Are Accepted at Gas Stations
Post by: bryant.coleman on May 12, 2015, 12:20:52 PM
How ironic? Lukoil is one of the largest Russian oil companies, and yet they are unable to accept Bitcoin payments within Russia. Anyway, it is good that they are able to do so in the Baltics. I just hope that the other oil distributors will be following their lead in these nations. And it will be good if the ban on Bitcoins can be pulled down in Russia.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Payments Are Accepted at Gas Stations
Post by: ebliever on May 12, 2015, 12:28:09 PM
Someone should make a little animation and send it to these Oil & Gas companies.

You have a QR Scanner built into the Gas pump, and you enter the amount, scan the QR code and once the transaction is confirmed { 1 confirmation } you can fill up with gas.

They can start with only 1 pump and as demand increase, they can add more pumps OR they can have Bitcoin enabled chargers for electric cars.  ;)

No, they should use a 0-confirmation (network propagation) approach. Who wants to wait around for one confirmation when that might take 2 minutes, or 10, or 40?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Payments Are Accepted at Gas Stations
Post by: fryarminer on May 12, 2015, 12:39:11 PM
Someone should make a little animation and send it to these Oil & Gas companies.

You have a QR Scanner built into the Gas pump, and you enter the amount, scan the QR code and once the transaction is confirmed { 1 confirmation } you can fill up with gas.

They can start with only 1 pump and as demand increase, they can add more pumps OR they can have Bitcoin enabled chargers for electric cars.  ;)

Replacing pumps would be an expensive option that companies would probably not go for. Having to go inside to pay at the cash register is a good compromise though.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Payments Are Accepted at Gas Stations
Post by: fox19891989 on May 12, 2015, 01:34:43 PM
bitcoin is great, more and more merchants are accepting it nowadays, so we can hold it strongly, let's wait for next big pump and we get rich. They will join Microsoft, dell, newegg, and let's change the world, change the remittance future and international transfer.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Payments Are Accepted at Gas Stations
Post by: AtheistAKASaneBrain on May 12, 2015, 02:14:34 PM
Is this for real? If so great news, seems like Elwar will have yet something less to worry about since now he can get gas paying directly with Bitcoin lol.