Off late it has clarified
its plan of accepting bitcoin as a medium of airline ticket booking.
This is despite widespread fears of the Japanese government cracking down on cryptocurrencies after the Coincheck hack.They announced that they intend to stick to their original
plan of accepting Bitcoin payments by the end of the fiscal year in March 2018.
Off late it has clarified
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Platform Reddit
plans to
accept cryptocurrencies as a payment option for participants
of the bonus program, Reddit gold, and this time
bitcoin will not be the only option.
To provide options to users affected by these capacity limits, BitPay
plans to soon
accept payments in the lower - fee cryptocurrency
Bitcoin Cash, a derivative
of Bitcoin.
According to the market research firm Seed
Planning, by the end
of 2017, the volume
of bitcoin transactions on exchanges
accepting Japanese yen will quadruple.
Chubu Electric Power Co. senior manager Hidehiro Ichikawa told CoinDesk that the test is part
of the company's «market research» into how
bitcoin could power its IoT needs, though he noted it doesn't yet have any official
plans to
accept Lightning payments from customers.
The data, collected by Boston Retail Partners, after surveying 500 retailers across the US, showed that none
of the businesses were currently
accepting bitcoin, whilst 5 % have
plans to adopt it within three years.
While there are still not many businesses
accepting bitcoin in Taiwan so far - with most users seeing it as an investment - BitoEX
plans to promote the use
of digital currency by opening up its API and holding a hackathon to develop new use cases.
Jimmy Wales, co-founder
of Wikipedia,
plans to discuss with the Wikimedia Foundation Board
of Directors the possibility
of the famous Internet encyclopaedia
accepting bitcoin.
An online survey has found that 8 %
of US retailers say they are
planning to
accept bitcoin within the next 12 months.
The analysts conducted a survey with the Electronic Transactions Association that found 23 %
of merchants
planned to
accept bitcoin within the next 24 months.
Last month, CoinFox reported on Universal Air Travel
Plan, Inc.'s integration
of bitcoin to allow more than 260 international airlines to
accept bitcoin payments.
The creator
of the first ever commercial fuel pump to
accept bitcoin has revealed a
plan to add Lightning Network functionality to his design.
Ulmart, Russia's largest online retailer,
plans to start
accepting bitcoin as a form
of payment from 1 September, 2017 as technology has continued to evolve and blockchain has arguably become even more important than the currency it created.
Two
of the major Japanese retailer
planned to start
accepting Bitcoin as a payment across all
of it's outlet.
Legends Room, a strip Club in Las vegas is in
planning to
accept cryptocurrencies, specially
Bitcoin in the form
of payments.
According to Raidió Teilifís Éireann — a semi-state company and the national public service broadcaster
of the Republic
of Ireland — the country's largest homebuilding company
plans on
accepting Bitcoin as a form
of payment.
A bill proposed in the State House
of New Hampshire would require the state treasurer to develop a
plan for
accepting bitcoin payments for taxes and fees.
Peach initially
planned to start
accepting Bitcoin for tickets and adding tie - ins pay points in restaurants, souvenir shops, and accommodations as well as installing ATMs, (BTMs) in collaboration with Bitpoint Japan by Autumn
of 2017.
Dogecoin has been used as a payment form in several cases: the weather forecasting website (and mobile app) Doge Weather requests tips in dogecoins to maintain its activity; a man tried to sell his house for $ 135,000 in dogecoins back in 2014; Australian porn star Angela White set up a payment system in dogecoins, allowing viewers to visit her website; and
of course the internet currency has been used in gambling.The Sun - Times Media Group, which has already
accepted Bitcoin payments, has reportedly
planned to implement dogecoin tipping for its writers
DISH
plans to start
accepting bitcoin payments in the third quarter
of 2014, but it has not yet revealed an exact date.
Back in January, South Korea's e-commerce giant — the South Korean equivalent
of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)-- Wemakeprice Inc. similarly announced
plans to begin
accepting Bitcoin and a dozen other cryptos on its platform.
If deals with Japanese companies are pursued as
planned, more than 300,000 Japanese merchants could soon
accept Bitcoin in the country and tens
of thousands
of convenience stores could start offering
Bitcoin as an official method
of payment.
A few days ago, the president
of FPT, a private Vietnamese university, announced that the university was
planning to
accept Bitcoin as a method
of payment for students» tuition.
Nevertheless, there are a lot
of reasons why
Bitcoin will further rise in the future as more and more governments are
planning to
accept and properly regulate
Bitcoin as a currency and store
of value.
As Coinfox recently reported, in February
of 2015, Universal Air Travel
Plan, Inc. (UATP) has established a partnership with Bitnet that would allow more than 260 international airlines to
accept bitcoin payments.
The scaling debate raged on, with those who do not understand the mechanisms enabling
Bitcoin to work in a decentralized manner
accepting Bitcoin Cash as a real alternative — all as part
of the
planned PR campaign.
While countries like USA have also
accepted the use
of bitcoin, Germany seems to have different advantageous
plans in place.
The retailer
plans to start
accepting bitcoin payment at all
of its outlets beginning in July this year, following successful trials at two
of its stores in Chiyoda and Shinjuku, Tokyo's biggest tourist hotspots.
While the lucky candidates will land themselves a share
of the valuable virtual currency, the University is also working on
plans to
accept Bitcoin as a payment method for tuition fees.
Initially,
bitcoin will be
accepted at two
of Yamada Denki Labi stores in Tokyo, but the company
plans to roll out the digital currency payment option nationwide in the future.
Byrne indicated the
plan was a kind
of trial for
bitcoin, that his company wasn't going to spend a fortune implementing it and would monitor its use to judge whether to continue
accepting it in future.