Energy provider in Austria accepts BTC as payment - page 2.

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Quote from: stompix on July 13, 2017, 09:10:06 AM

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Wann es für die rund 500.000 Stromkunden so weit sein könnte, dass sie ihre Rechnung mit Bitcoin oder einer anderen Kryptowährung begleichen können, wagt Kolar keine Prognose. "Hier spielen auch Vorschriften und Regularien eine Rolle. Da ist noch einiges zu klären", sagt Kolar. (hn)

If I understand correctly they accept crypto but they don't even know if it's legal to do so ?

No , they don't accept crypto and the guy that gave the interview says that they don't plan in the near future to.
What they do accept is 3rd parter payments for their containerdienst24.at business.

i really don't have an idea regarding to that statement that has been mention and OP's topic is regarding to acceptance of bitcoin for payment process
and if this is true its really a big break since more company will start also using the chain if this really happening.

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this is a good news to everyone and I am very happy seeing the way mega company are accepting bitcoin as source of payment and with the way bitcoin is been accepted nowadays will force many countries to adopt it as alternative payment and this will make bitcoin price to go up ,

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Quote from: aesma on July 13, 2017, 02:53:28 AM

Quote from: stompix on July 10, 2017, 10:41:12 AM

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Wann es für die rund 500.000 Stromkunden so weit sein könnte, dass sie ihre Rechnung mit Bitcoin oder einer anderen Kryptowährung begleichen können, wagt Kolar keine Prognose. "Hier spielen auch Vorschriften und Regularien eine Rolle. Da ist noch einiges zu klären", sagt Kolar. (hn)

If I understand correctly they accept crypto but they don't even know if it's legal to do so ?

No , they don't accept crypto and the guy that gave the interview says that they don't plan in the near future to.
What they do accept is 3rd parter payments for their containerdienst24.at business.

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This is great news. In a very short time, lots of companies will follow suit

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We could see such news about acceptance of bitcoin payments regularly.It seems thepioneers in different fields are ready to accept bitcoin payments.Its because being pioneer,they are able to grasp the market developments and so they see a big future in bitcoins and to face competition,they announce first about bitcoin acceptance much earlier than others.

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Quote from: stompix on July 10, 2017, 10:41:12 AM

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Wann es für die rund 500.000 Stromkunden so weit sein könnte, dass sie ihre Rechnung mit Bitcoin oder einer anderen Kryptowährung begleichen können, wagt Kolar keine Prognose. "Hier spielen auch Vorschriften und Regularien eine Rolle. Da ist noch einiges zu klären", sagt Kolar. (hn)

If I understand correctly they accept crypto but they don't even know if it's legal to do so ?

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Is it just me or is the US still slipping behind on BTC adoption? Dont get me wrong all adoption is good. Just seems to be another are where the US lags.

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Honestly, I don't trust this news. Documentary confirmation of such news and people often wishful thinking. If the Austrian government does not officially accept bitcoin for payment then the power company can't break. Maybe the payment is carried out through the transit exchange?

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Translated this news in our blog http://altcoin.media/2017/07/12/energie-ag-bitcoins-are-accepted-from-monday/

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LINZ. Until the electricity calculation with the cryptography Bitcoin can pay, it will still last. But Energie AG will be able to pay with Bitcoin from Monday, with the product “Containerservice24” of Energie-AG subsidiary UmweltService GmbH.

This might help bitcoin to get more adoption in Germany.

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That's a good news!
Bitcoin acceptance is becoming more
wider,they are now noticing it.

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OK, again add a btc acceptor in transactions. This will definitely appear even more. As btc is getting more and more attention due to its convenience in the deal and because of the increasing number of btc owners and of course their demand for btc transactions also increases, this promotes the btc acceptance in over the world.

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That's the great thing form the EnergieAG. Good start and its happy news to all our members also.

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Quote from: dquancey on July 10, 2017, 03:38:36 AM

Great news, does it state the reasons why?

Accepting more forms of currency like this can only help businesses, but I have a feeling that when companies start accepting BTC, it's because a high level exec is invested in Bitcoin and pushes it through.

Like I say, this isn't a bad thing, as it's win/win for everyone, but would like to know the reasoning behind it.

Well that can be one reason but I don't think accepting Bitcoin as a mode of payment for your utility bill will help influence the price that much. Its not the policy change we are looking for but for the increase of users. I don't know if people will convert their Fiat Currency to Bitcoin in order to pay the latter. It is only a matter of what they are paying, as a smart or practical person won't pay using their Bitcoin because it is a form of investment right now which has more value than Fiat currency.

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Nice news for them. I hope it will be greatly used so others companies will start to follow the same path. One thing you can notice: It's funny because if I am not wrong this company is owned with ~10% by banks like Oberbank. irony irony Roll Eyes

. Are they using Energie As their Lab?

Quote from: stompix on July 10, 2017, 10:41:12 AM

It's Austria.
Read the damn article and use google translate if you don't the language !!!!!!

LOL you made my day. And the most funny is that the OP title clearly say Austria

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Quote from: User365 on July 10, 2017, 03:26:54 AM

http://www.nachrichten.at/nachrichten/wirtschaft/wirtschaftsraumooe/Energie-AG-Ab-Montag-werden-Bitcoins-akzeptiert;art467,2617284

sorry but it is only available in german.

The energy provider EnergieAG in Austria (Central europe, south of germany and no kangaroos) started to accept BTC as payment.
Why I post this here and not in a german subforum? Because it is great news that a second big company (biggest food delivery service in Germany too) started to accept BTC in a few days. That is great news

Even though its for the German market, I believe its still a good news to the market in general because it shows that businesses are beigingng to trust the technology and the force behind it and not just individuals now but corporate bodies no matter how small their capacity is and with the biggest food delivery coming on board in few days, then all I can say is that good days are here and its happening in our very own eyes.

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Looks like a small energy provider and hence they could accept bitcoins as a payment because they are interested in the digital currency market. Still, it's something good for their customers if they use bitcoins as a currency. Earlier I heard about Austria introducing a bitcoin bank as well by Bit trust. Any updates about it?

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Quote from: User365 on July 10, 2017, 03:26:54 AM

http://www.nachrichten.at/nachrichten/wirtschaft/wirtschaftsraumooe/Energie-AG-Ab-Montag-werden-Bitcoins-akzeptiert;art467,2617284

sorry but it is only available in german.

The energy provider EnergieAG in Austria (Central europe, south of germany and no kangaroos) started to accept BTC as payment.
Why I post this here and not in a german subforum? Because it is great news that a second big company (biggest food delivery service in Germany too) started to accept BTC in a few days. That is great news

As wise as i am now and with lots of companies and corporations accepting bitcoins now, i dont think i will be joining the group of people who uses bitcoins to make purchases and the payments of bills. I will pay with cash and let time grow my bitcoins.

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Quote from: Kprawn on July 10, 2017, 10:09:46 AM

A few years ago, people were saying if you cannot pay your utility bills with bitcoin, then it is not a real currency. We have seen more than one

company that allows you to do that now, so we are steadily moving forward towards mainstream adoption. I hope that we will seen more of this

type of news, as bitcoin adoption increase in the future. We just need to find a way to do this without using third party services. Wink

Yeah, like you mentioned, the only way to pay your bills with Bitcoin is usually through third party services atm, but it's slowly changing.

Aside from this story, a town in Switserland has been accepting Bitcoin as payment for government services.
The trial ended in December 2016, but afaik, no results have been published. (could be wrong here)

Here's a link to an article about that Swiss Bitcoin payment trial:
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/crypto-valley_zug-first-to-accept-bitcoin-for-government-services/42143908

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That's the first big bitcoins news from Austria. Congratulations! I hope that fact will support spreading of bitcoin and it's future mass adoption.

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Quote from: User365 on July 10, 2017, 03:26:54 AM

http://www.nachrichten.at/nachrichten/wirtschaft/wirtschaftsraumooe/Energie-AG-Ab-Montag-werden-Bitcoins-akzeptiert;art467,2617284

sorry but it is only available in german.

The energy provider EnergieAG in Austria (Central europe, south of germany and no kangaroos) started to accept BTC as payment.
Why I post this here and not in a german subforum? Because it is great news that a second big company (biggest food delivery service in Germany too) started to accept BTC in a few days. That is great newspaper

Good thing for them i guess this is a good sign that the cryptocurrency isguess spreading and the bitcoin is not hopeless for a pumping of price in the market i dont think that the bitcoin will become a dead coin at this point because it is already a successful coin in the market.

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