[2016-07-06]Xapo Users Can Spend Bitcoin Through Uber Argentina

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Xapo Users Can Spend Bitcoin Through Uber Argentina

There has been a lot of talk about whether or not Uber is suddenly accepting Bitcoin payments in Argentina. One of the company’s tweets seemed to indicate this change, albeit any official reference to has been removed ever since. Moreover, there was an email sent out to Xapo users further confirming using Bitcoin through Uber Argentina...

http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/07/06/xapo-users-can-spend-bitcoin-uber-argentina/

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[unamis76]

Good to see Uber circumventing this issue via Xapo, but it's still sad that they're not taking Bitcoin directly... For them it is pretty much the same as before. I hope they're indirectly fueling the Bitcoin economy in Argentina with this, tho.

[Kaneki]

This shows off the strength of Bitcoin compared to the centralized banking system. Since there is no to control Bitcoin, blocking the payment method is very difficult. Especially when an intermediary service such as Xapo is being used. For the time being, it remains to be seen how long this “trick” will continue to work.

[coinzat]

I do not see any btc accepted in this news. the customers are going to pay with xapo card. so it is a debit card not bitcoin.

[European Central Bank]

i can't see this lasting. the argentine government is going all out to kill uber. if bitcoin was big enough they'd be doing the same thing.

and it's open to all foreign debit cards so there's not alot of bitcoin involved.