This guy's twitter handle is @ChicagoCabbie - he might be a good candidate to be the first ever bitcoin-accepting cabbie.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/01/old-services-meet-new-media-a-tweeting-cabbies-growing-business.ars
Topic: I took a taxi today piad with VISA! - page 2. (Read 3579 times)
A taxi driver could just have a QR code with an address laminated. The passenger could send the minimum price at the beginning of the trip. By the end, the driver can verify it on block explorer, and any extra time due to traffic can be paid for with bitcoin or settled in USD. That's actually a good fit for bitcoin since the majority of the cost is known early on.
Is the wait really an issue for this small of a transaction? It takes seconds to 'see' the transaction on any client or e-wallet. Just seems like an added inconvenience to the merchant. It would be great to see the thread 'I took a taxi today paid with bitcoins' though. Nice work introducing it.
*edd begins daydreaming...*
A taxi driver could just have a QR code with an address laminated. The passenger could send the minimum price at the beginning of the trip. By the end, the driver can verify it on block explorer, and any extra time due to traffic can be paid for with bitcoin or settled in USD. That's actually a good fit for bitcoin since the majority of the cost is known early on.
and if bitcoins goes up he could actually be ahead of the game.
FYI: bitlimousine.com or bitousine.com is available.
A taxi driver could just have a QR code with an address laminated. The passenger could send the minimum price at the beginning of the trip. By the end, the driver can verify it on block explorer, and any extra time due to traffic can be paid for with bitcoin or settled in USD. That's actually a good fit for bitcoin since the majority of the cost is known early on.
and if bitcoins goes up he could actually be ahead of the game.
A taxi driver could just have a QR code with an address laminated. The passenger could send the minimum price at the beginning of the trip. By the end, the driver can verify it on block explorer, and any extra time due to traffic can be paid for with bitcoin or settled in USD. That's actually a good fit for bitcoin since the majority of the cost is known early on.
I went to my mothers house today. and took a taxi to get there
When it came to pay for the ride, i pulled out my visa card. the taxi driver told me its a 15$ minimum when paying with visa.. it was the only way i could pay him so he accepted it... he tell me its 15$ minimum because first of all theirs a % fee when using visa and then some other organization takes their cut too.
so i said BITCOIN!
I told him it was a new way to pay for things... their are no fees, no charge backs, and it is not issued by any government.
I could tell he was interested, his first thoughts was "well this new thing is for-sure going to take off, Is it more a US thing?" (i live in canada)
He also asked me if there was a easy way to start accepting bitcoins
I told him to look it up on the internet
clearly their is a definite NEED for bitcoin, and overwhelming ignorance as to its existence / usefulness.
When it came to pay for the ride, i pulled out my visa card. the taxi driver told me its a 15$ minimum when paying with visa.. it was the only way i could pay him so he accepted it... he tell me its 15$ minimum because first of all theirs a % fee when using visa and then some other organization takes their cut too.
so i said BITCOIN!
I told him it was a new way to pay for things... their are no fees, no charge backs, and it is not issued by any government.
I could tell he was interested, his first thoughts was "well this new thing is for-sure going to take off, Is it more a US thing?" (i live in canada)
He also asked me if there was a easy way to start accepting bitcoins
I told him to look it up on the internet
clearly their is a definite NEED for bitcoin, and overwhelming ignorance as to its existence / usefulness.
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