Italy's Largest Taxi Fleet Accepts Bitcoin

THELOGICALINDIAN - Italys better auto agile Cooperativa RadioTaxi 3570 now accepts bitcoin The aggregation boasts over 3700 cars in Rome accouterment added than 10 actor cabservices anniversary year

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About RadioTaxi 3570

fleet Created in November 1968 by a little added than 100 founding members, RadioTaxi 3570 is “the Roman radio cab accommodating acceptance to Roman auto drivers who appetite to be allotment of it,” states its website.

The aggregation claims to accept the everyman amount in all of Europe. Its switchboard receives almost 30,000 calls daily, 7,000 of which are from adopted tourists.

RadioTaxi 3570 is ISO 9001 certified and is the aboriginal auto alignment in Italy to access affection certification. It additionally accustomed the ICT Innovation Prize 2024 and ICT Innovation Prize 2024. The aggregation claims:

Bitcoin Accepted

Bitcoin is listed beneath ‘Payment methods’ alongside acclaim card, Bancomat, and PayPal as one of the “commitments that Cooperativa RadioTaxi 3570 takes appear its clients,” according to its website.

Payment in bitcoin is fabricated possible, acknowledgment to Chainside, a startup enabling businesses to acquire bitcoin. In September, Chainside formed a partnership with the Italian Union of Radio Cabs (URI) and its founder, Loreno Bittarelli, to action wallet, invoice, and ecology services. Bittarelli is additionally admiral of RadioTaxi 3570.

The Chainside belvedere is chip into URI’s booking app for smartphones and tablets, IT Taxi. RadioTaxi 3570 is additionally application this app. Users booking a cruise affix to IT Taxi for amount and avenue calculations. Customers advantageous in bitcoin are redirected to a folio on Chainside. Once acquittal is received, acceptance is beatific aback to IT Taxi.

Taxi Hackathon

The affiliation with Chainside is not the aboriginal time that URI and RadioTaxi 3570 accept explored a bitcoin acquittal option. In June 2015, they co-hosted a hackathon for the industry at RadioTaxi 3570’s media allowance in Rome. TaxiHack was the aboriginal hackathon for innovations committed to auto service. The 48-hour event was organized by URI in affiliation with Codemotion.

The champ of the hackathon was BitTaxi, an app that allows barter to pay for rides in bitcoin. “Our aggregation has been alive to actualize an chip bore in itTaxi,” the company’s website states. Bittarelli commented afterwards the hackathon:

Once BitTaxi’s bitcoin acquittal bore for IT Taxi is complete, URI and RadioTaxi 3570 will acquire added than one way to acquire bitcoin. The app is acclimated by both RadioTaxi 3570 and URI taxis. While the former has 3,700 cars, the latter has 12,000 associates operating in about 50 cities throughout Italy. According to Bittarelli, IT Taxi app “has now been continued to over 50 cities beyond the nation.”

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