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If you are a traveler and your next destination is Italy there are some surprises that will greet you on your vacation. Using just your mobile phones and bitcoin applications you may ride a cab using bitcoin. I am not affiliated with this taxi company but its my pleasure to let the bitcoin community know about this great news. Italy’s largest taxi fleet, Cooperativa RadioTaxi 3570, now accepts bitcoin. The company boasts over 3,700 cars in Rome, providing more than 10 million cab services each year. Ive taken this line from this link, feel free to read: https://news.bitcoin.com/italys-largest-taxi-fleet-bitcoin/ |
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January 26, 2017, 01:09:19 PM
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Italy probably don't have the biggest bitcoin community out there compared to china or USA but this should definitely help bring more users to bitcoin and If they started accepting it , It means that they had demand on it. If only Uber could start accepting BTCitcoin directly as well , that would take us to another new level.
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January 26, 2017, 01:11:00 PM |
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I was going to ask if they only service Rome, but i can see they offer their services throughout Italy through another organisation. This is really nice and i hope to see more examples across Europe. Thanks a lot for sharing this. It would be nice to see people getting a discount for using Bitcoin, given it makes life easier for both parties.
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January 26, 2017, 01:32:22 PM
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It's nice to hear bitcoin is getting popular day by day.its really a good news.Its actually a good publicity for digital currencies.Soon all People will start speaking about it. I am sure that slowly all other countries will pick up bitcoin and competition among the big brands in implementing bitcoins as there payment processor will also start. Just waiting when it's going to happen in India since I am from India. In India everybody is busy in buying and storing bitcoins.
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Xester (OP)
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January 26, 2017, 01:42:33 PM |
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I was going to ask if they only service Rome, but i can see they offer their services throughout Italy through another organisation. This is really nice and i hope to see more examples across Europe. Thanks a lot for sharing this. It would be nice to see people getting a discount for using Bitcoin, given it makes life easier for both parties.
If you read the article you can read it there that the taxi company operates in over 50 cities in whole Italy. Just imagine the impact of bitcoins in Italy. The taxis aside from accepting bitcoins will be one of the best promoters and advertisers of bitcoin in the area. Sooner or later it will not be just Italy that will have cabs accepting bitcoins I am expecting major cities around the globe will follow. |
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January 26, 2017, 01:46:06 PM |
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I was going to ask if they only service Rome, but i can see they offer their services throughout Italy through another organisation. This is really nice and i hope to see more examples across Europe. Thanks a lot for sharing this. It would be nice to see people getting a discount for using Bitcoin, given it makes life easier for both parties.
If you read the article you can read it there that the taxi company operates in over 50 cities in whole Italy. Just imagine the impact of bitcoins in Italy. The taxis aside from accepting bitcoins will be one of the best promoters and advertisers of bitcoin in the area. Sooner or later it will not be just Italy that will have cabs accepting bitcoins I am expecting major cities around the globe will follow. Its so nice seeing great news like this as we knew that it will add more popularity for bitcoin and for sure it will be adopt by many other countries which caters bitcoin invesrment, i hope i will also see that here in our country even we are consider as part of third world. Thanks for sharing this neews OP. |
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January 26, 2017, 02:29:15 PM |
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I was going to ask if they only service Rome, but i can see they offer their services throughout Italy through another organisation. This is really nice and i hope to see more examples across Europe. Thanks a lot for sharing this. It would be nice to see people getting a discount for using Bitcoin, given it makes life easier for both parties.
If you read the article you can read it there that the taxi company operates in over 50 cities in whole Italy. Just imagine the impact of bitcoins in Italy. The taxis aside from accepting bitcoins will be one of the best promoters and advertisers of bitcoin in the area. Sooner or later it will not be just Italy that will have cabs accepting bitcoins I am expecting major cities around the globe will follow. If you read my post you can read that i mentioned after a second read i saw that they offer the services throughout Italy  I dont believe Italy will set the scene for other countries to follow to be honest. I dont believe they have that much of an influence over other nations policies. Nevertheless it is a great idea. As someone mentioned, i would much prefer if this was implemented within Uber or something, rather than support the already expensive and corrupt taxi companies. |
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January 26, 2017, 02:36:06 PM |
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I was going to ask if they only service Rome, but i can see they offer their services throughout Italy through another organisation. This is really nice and i hope to see more examples across Europe. Thanks a lot for sharing this. It would be nice to see people getting a discount for using Bitcoin, given it makes life easier for both parties.
If you read the article you can read it there that the taxi company operates in over 50 cities in whole Italy. Just imagine the impact of bitcoins in Italy. The taxis aside from accepting bitcoins will be one of the best promoters and advertisers of bitcoin in the area. Sooner or later it will not be just Italy that will have cabs accepting bitcoins I am expecting major cities around the globe will follow. If you read my post you can read that i mentioned after a second read i saw that they offer the services throughout Italy I dont believe Italy will set the scene for other countries to follow to be honest. I dont believe they have that much of an influence over other nations policies. Nevertheless it is a great idea. As someone mentioned, i would much prefer if this was implemented within Uber or something, rather than support the already expensive and corrupt taxi companies. I know it is a small step but at least we can used more things using bitcoin, so I think it is a great improvement, in order to be adapted by big company it is not that easy, but who knows the taxi with bitcoin payment could be a huge success then the big company will follow to adapt bitcoin |
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January 26, 2017, 02:41:43 PM |
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Hmmm... I remember reading this story three months back. So how are the things turning out in Italy? Is it going on smoothly, or are they facing some issues with the tax regulations and fiat conversion? I did a quick Google and Reddit search, but there is not much information. Can anyone familiar with Italian language post some recent news about this?
Anyway.. I'll be more happy if Uber or Lyft accepts Bitcoin payments.
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January 26, 2017, 02:48:59 PM |
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Wow this is really a great thing on which taxi companies are already accepting bitcoin as a payment and paying with just using your phone is very convenient even if you dont have any cash on your pocket. If adoption would still continue hopefully this thing would be available in my country and i would really be glad on it.
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January 26, 2017, 02:52:06 PM |
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Hmmm... I remember reading this story three months back. So how are the things turning out in Italy? Is it going on smoothly, or are they facing some issues with the tax regulations and fiat conversion? I did a quick Google and Reddit search, but there is not much information. Can anyone familiar with Italian language post some recent news about this?
Anyway.. I'll be more happy if Uber or Lyft accepts Bitcoin payments.
Yeah even I noticed that in cryptonews about uber accepting bitcoin as a payment. They are accepting from last year feb right. However, I do not use bitcoins to payment for taxi. If I use the fiat online transaction I use to get the promotion offer like small dollar values. |
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January 26, 2017, 02:54:36 PM |
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That's some big news for the Bitcoin community, earlier the swizz were accepting it and now Italy cab also accepting it, will make the wallet light for travellers. I had been planning a trip for Italy later down the year and this will really help me save a lot of money, as my travelling money will be saved thanks to usage of Bitcoin. But this transactions are valid right under Italy laws, cause I don't wish to have hassles later on. If any one has used this services currently, do let us all know, how was the experience cause confirmation sometimes takes lot of time and then the price issue so how does it work?
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January 26, 2017, 02:57:13 PM |
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Great news, I'm going to Rome on March, will try to make a ride and pay with Bitcoins.
The more ways to spend Bitcoin opens, the faster adoption will take place. I think that such a use cases are very good example to incentivize other merchants to accept Bitcoins.
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January 26, 2017, 02:58:49 PM |
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Hmmm... I remember reading this story three months back. So how are the things turning out in Italy? Is it going on smoothly, or are they facing some issues with the tax regulations and fiat conversion? I did a quick Google and Reddit search, but there is not much information. Can anyone familiar with Italian language post some recent news about this?
Anyway.. I'll be more happy if Uber or Lyft accepts Bitcoin payments.
Yeah even I noticed that in cryptonews about uber accepting bitcoin as a payment. They are accepting from last year feb right. However, I do not use bitcoins to payment for taxi. If I use the fiat online transaction I use to get the promotion offer like small dollar values. Uber accepting Bitcoins? When did that happened? Nope. They are not accepting Bitcoin. Most of the news posted in cryptonews is unreliable and inaccurate. The Coindesk has confirmed that this story is false: http://www.coindesk.com/uber-denies-plans-to-accept-bitcoin-payments/Uber is having a partnership with Xapo in Argentina. Cryptonews misinterpreted this news and posted that Uber is accepting Bitcoins worldwide. |
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January 26, 2017, 03:12:30 PM |
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Italy probably don't have the biggest bitcoin community out there compared to china or USA but this should definitely help bring more users to bitcoin and If they started accepting it , It means that they had demand on it. If only Uber could start accepting BTCitcoin directly as well , that would take us to another new level.
It's not the biggest community, but they probably have the biggest taxi business that works with Bitcoin out there. That is nice, I wonder how would a daily life look like if we were able to pay for anything in Bitcoins. The only time I bought something with BTC was when I got some games, but virtually. I actually never tried to buy something with Bitcoins that exists physically and it would be interesting to try. |
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January 26, 2017, 04:04:01 PM |
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Italy probably don't have the biggest bitcoin community out there compared to china or USA but this should definitely help bring more users to bitcoin and If they started accepting it , It means that they had demand on it. If only Uber could start accepting BTCitcoin directly as well , that would take us to another new level.
Of course using bitcoin a taxi company will not change the global monetary system. Furthermore, all we know that Italy has not a big bitcoin community compared with China or USA but they have not also the same population. The matter is that merchants and entrepreneurs start to use bitcoin as payment system meaning more and more people will learn about it and not only a bunch of enthusiasts or deep web criminals as sometimes mass media have said. |
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January 26, 2017, 04:59:38 PM |
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Hmmm... I remember reading this story three months back. So how are the things turning out in Italy? Is it going on smoothly, or are they facing some issues with the tax regulations and fiat conversion? I did a quick Google and Reddit search, but there is not much information. Can anyone familiar with Italian language post some recent news about this?
Anyway.. I'll be more happy if Uber or Lyft accepts Bitcoin payments.
Yeah even I noticed that in cryptonews about uber accepting bitcoin as a payment. They are accepting from last year feb right. However, I do not use bitcoins to payment for taxi. If I use the fiat online transaction I use to get the promotion offer like small dollar values. Uber accepting Bitcoins? When did that happened? Nope. They are not accepting Bitcoin. Most of the news posted in cryptonews is unreliable and inaccurate. The Coindesk has confirmed that this story is false: http://www.coindesk.com/uber-denies-plans-to-accept-bitcoin-payments/Uber is having a partnership with Xapo in Argentina. Cryptonews misinterpreted this news and posted that Uber is accepting Bitcoins worldwide. Here in the Philippines, if you've availed of the BTCBTCBTC debit card from the larget local wallet provider, they give you rebates when using that BTCBTCBTC card for Uber. So in essence, you can get cheaper Uber fares using BTCBTCBTC. |
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January 26, 2017, 05:29:02 PM |
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Well if you consider that The Colosseum in Rome, Italy, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world gets 48.6 million tourists a year. (2014), Italy is the fifth most visited country in international tourism arrivals. Just imagine if most of them used this service and they paid with Bitcoin. This is big news.... thanks for this.  |
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January 26, 2017, 05:33:51 PM |
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If you are a traveler and your next destination is Italy there are some surprises that will greet you on your vacation. Using just your mobile phones and bitcoin applications you may ride a cab using bitcoin. I am not affiliated with this taxi company but its my pleasure to let the bitcoin community know about this great news. Italy’s largest taxi fleet, Cooperativa RadioTaxi 3570, now accepts bitcoin. The company boasts over 3,700 cars in Rome, providing more than 10 million cab services each year. Ive taken this line from this link, feel free to read: https://news.bitcoin.com/italys-largest-taxi-fleet-bitcoin/Heard about this months ago. It's actually a very good initiative taken by Cooperativa RadioTaxi. I also remember reading somewhere that a taxi company in Budapest is also accepting bitcoins as a payment and lets not forget about france where buses are accepting bitcoins too. |
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January 26, 2017, 06:02:39 PM |
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OK guys... so I had a chat with one of my Italian Facebook friends, and he confirmed that Cooperativa RadioTaxi 3570 is not accepting direct payments in Bitcoin. They are using a third party payment gateway. Users can pay with Bitcoin, and the driver will receive this payment in fiat. The drivers doesn't even know that the original payment was in Bitcoin.
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