By and large, Uber’s customers are adapting well to using Bitcoin through Xapo’s debit card, for which Uber gave a $30 discount. Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar, President of Bitcoin Latam and CEO of RSK Labs, sees Uber’s typical customer as being willing to embrace new technology.
“In general Uber users are highly knowledgeable about technology and more prone to Bitcoin understanding and usage, fears about Bitcoin usually come from more illiterate users.”
According to Franco Amati, co-organizer of the Latin American Bitcoin Conference (laBITconf), most users have flocked to Bitcoin rather than lose Uber.
“Nobody is deleting Uber app because of this, on the contrary, I have friends that requested Bitcoin debit cards to use Uber. Most of them from SatoshiTango, since there they have an option for a virtual debit card, so they do not even need to wait for a physical card to be delivered. But others from Xapo too as card issuer.”
Amati also notes that Uber’s difficulties from authorities were what prompted this sudden explosion of interest in Bitcoin.
“Also, have in mind that Uber was not accepting these cards a month ago. They added them because in Argentina all local cards are blocked by the government from using Uber (even when these cards are used outside of Argentina).”
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