Italy’s largest taxi cooperative now accepts bitcoin through IT Taxi smartphone app

Briefing

December 16, 2016

Briefing	Bitcoin payments – RadioTaxi 3570, the largest taxi cooperative in Italy, and URI Taxis, another big taxi union, now accept bitcoin as payment through partnership with startup Chainside Smartphone app – Customers can pay for rides with bitcoin via smartphone app IT Taxi which integrates with Chainside’s platform and is used in 50 cities Taxi hackathon – Companies hosted hackathons in 2015 for solutions specific to cab industry with winning app BitTaxi allowing customers to pay for rides using bitcoin Multiple payment methods – BitTaxi’s payment module will be integrated in IT Taxi, giving companies more than one way to accept bitcoin
Accelerator	Cloud-Based Services, Web3 Ecosystems, Tokens and Consensus Mechanisms
Sector	Information Technology, Transportation and Logistics
Organization	Chainside Ltd., RadioTaxi 3570, URI Taxis
Source	Helms, K., "Italy’s largest taxi fleet accepts bitcoin", Bitcoin.com, https://www.bitcoin.com/; AcceleratingBiz analysis
Original Publication Date	November 4, 2016

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