THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitcoin ether birr and litecoin can now be purchased at over 1800 column appointment locations throughout Austria This is accessible due to a affiliation amid bitcoin agent Bitpanda and Austrias arch postal account provider Austrian Post
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1,800 Postal Locations
European bitcoin agent Bitpanda was founded in October 2014 as Coinimal. The Vienna startup rebranded as Bitpanda in June 2016. The aggregation claims to accept over 300,000 users currently, with about 200 actor euros in transaction volume.
On Tuesday, Bitpanda announced that bitcoin, ether, dash, and litecoin can now be purchased at all postal locations throughout Austria. According to the Post’s website, there are “more than 1,800 postal branches and Austrian Post ally throughout Austria.”
Bitpanda believes that by partnering with the Post, it will access both its user abject as able-bodied as its transaction volume. The company’s co-founder Eric Demuth said:
Buying Bitpanda Vouchers
At any column appointment adverse in Austria, barter can buy Bitpanda’s cardboard vouchers in denominations of 50, 100 or 500 euros. After purchasing, they will accept a cipher per agenda to redeem for their best of the four cryptocurrencies on the Bitpanda website.
This annual is alleged “Bitpanda to go” and is alone offered through the Post. “All you charge is an email address,” the aggregation explained. There are currently three analysis levels; starter, bronze, and gold. A fourth level, silver, will be advancing soon. Alone the amateur akin is bare to redeem vouchers, which alone requires an email abode to verify. For added services, “the verification level of your annual determines how abounding bitcoins you can buy/sell anniversary day. A college analysis akin will advance to college banned in your account,” the aggregation detailed.
Some Other Redemption Cards
Bitpanda is not the aboriginal to action physically-sold, redeemable vouchers for bitcoin. In adjacent France, the European bitcoin broker Bitit offers prepaid allowance cards for euros that assignment analogously to Bitpanda’s vouchers. The cards are now allotment of a arrangement of concrete allowance cards that are awash at over 150,000 locations beyond Europe, according to the exchange.
South Korea’s Coinplug barter additionally sells bitcoins at accessibility stores. Their vouchers called Okbitcards are accessible at over 4,000 7-11 and Ministop locations beyond the country, redeemable through a smartphone app. In Canada, Bitaccess offers a agnate account application Flexepin vouchers at 6,000 locations.
In next-door Switzerland, the nation’s federal railway company, SBB, started affairs bitcoins anon from their ticketing kiosks backward aftermost year.
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