THELOGICALINDIAN - The third better bus aggregation in France Isilines has started accepting bitcoin as allotment of a sixmonth testrun Isilines is the aboriginal aggregation in its area to acquire a cryptocurrency
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Partnership with Paymium
To acquire bitcoin payments, Isilines has partnered with a French
startup, Paymium, an online exchange. Paymium offers merchant processing and abounding added casework agnate to Coinbase, specializing in adjustable barter amid bitcoin and euros.
The Paris-based bitcoin aperture matches buyers with sellers on both an over-the-counter barter and a real-time trading exchange, additional it has added services, including business acquittal processing and sending bitcoins over email, all in acquiescence with European acquittal account regulations.
Six-Month Experiment
Isilines began accepting bitcoin through Paymium the agenda bill on August 2, both on its website and with acceptable acclaim agenda payments. According to French fintech account aperture ITespresso, this is a six-month trial, at the end of which Isilines will appraise the situation. This aeon of time is called to accompany with the end of the chargeless acceptance of the Paymium service.
Paymium currently offers a free six-month balloon for merchants amalgam bitcoin payments on their e-commerce websites. Beyond the chargeless balloon period, a accepted fee of 0.59 percent applies. However, alike with the accepted fee, the amount is still lower than for acceptable acclaim agenda payments. “This new account is allotment of our advance addition policy,” Richard Dujardin, CEO of Transdev France accepted in a statement.
“We accept that it takes acquaintance to apprentice and that is how we acknowledge bigger to the new uses and expectations of our passengers,” MobiliCites reported.
According to ITespresso’s website:
By abacus bitcoin as a acquittal option, Isilines abutting arch players in the biking industry such as Expedia, which started accepting bitcoin over two years ago.
France’s Third Largest Bus Company
Isilines is a assemblage of Transdev Group, which is 60 percent endemic by accompaniment captivation aggregation Caisse des Depots et Consignations. It is 
the third better bus aggregation in France, afterwards the Munich-based FlixBus and Ouibus, a assemblage of France’s civic state-owned railway company, SNCF. According to Isilines backer Isabelle Pons, the aggregation receives no government subsidies and “hopes to be assisting aural one or two years,” Bloomberg reported.
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