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Former Uber Driver Launches Bitcoin Tipping Service for the Network - newsBTC

Former Uber Driver Launches Bitcoin Tipping Service for the Network - newsBTC | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Former Uber driver and Vugo cofounder James bellefeuille has launched a Vugo bitcoin tipping service for Uber drivers, to enable customers to tip the drivers using bitcoin, instead of cash.
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BitBeat: Apple Pay's Challenges; Uber's New Blockchain Competitor - Wall Street Journal (blog)

BitBeat: Apple Pay's Challenges; Uber's New Blockchain Competitor - Wall Street Journal (blog) | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

- We continue to think that bitcoiners should be keeping one eye on the larger universe of payments systems, and the developments happening over there, because as bitcoin and cryptocurrencies move further afield from their home turf, they are going to be in competition with these outsiders.

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Uber & AirBnb may soon accept Bitcoin

Uber & AirBnb may soon accept Bitcoin | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Everyone’s favorite cryptocurrency may soon be apart of the sharing economy. The Wall Street Journal reports, “eBay Inc. has been quietly working to integrate acceptance of the virtual currency into its Braintree payments subsidiary, part of its PayPal unit, according to people familiar with the matter”.

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Paying for Uber with Bitcoin? Braintree opens up bitcoin payments to its thousands of merchants

Paying for Uber with Bitcoin? Braintree opens up bitcoin payments to its thousands of merchants | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Two of the biggest forces in modern payments collided today as Braintree announced broad availability of its bitcoin payments product via a previously announced partnership with Coinbase. .

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La’Zooz: The Decentralized Proof-of-Movement ‘Uber’ Unveiled

La’Zooz: The Decentralized Proof-of-Movement ‘Uber’ Unveiled | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Taxi unions (with their ever-attendant government backing) have unleashed oppression on ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft around the world. Now it seems that they’ve brought upon themselves the same fate that Hollywood eventually met when it used the state to crush Napster: a decentralized version of their original target.
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Banks are crying out for the Uber treatment - Telegraph.co.uk

Banks are crying out for the Uber treatment - Telegraph.co.uk | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

A number of years ago, I was asked by an acquaintance whether I had ever written about Bitcoin, a phenomenon I had only recently become aware of. “No,” I replied, “I’m instinctively suspicious of it and don’t want to give it the oxygen of publicity.”

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