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Book A Jamaican Luxury Villa For 3.5m Dogecoin Joon Ian Wong 狗币现在可以去定牙买加的别墅哈 同时支持比特币和莱特币 Book A Jamaican Luxury Villa For 3.5m DogecoinJoon Ian Wong (@joonian) | Published on January 26, 2014 at 18:40 GMT | Lifestyle, Merchants, NewsinShare1Share23If you’ve been hard at work mining altcoins, one way to get a well-deserved break while still contributing to the cryptocurrency economy is by kicking back at a luxury waterfront villa in Jamaica. Island Villas Jamaica, a holiday villa rental firm, is now accepting litecoin,dogecoin and bitcoin for bookings. Island Villas’ owner, Yvonne Blakey said: “We get people from all over the world staying with us. The villas are pretty high-end, and they all come with a full staff, including a cook, housekeeper and butler.” Blakey’s son, Jon Blakey, came up with the idea to start taking cryptocurrency payments for villa bookings. He is a dogecoin enthusiast (“I’m fully invested in doge right now”), and is mining the dog-inspired currency. He also has a day job working on servers for GoDaddy. Bookings This week, Blakey updated the Island Villas website with a notice saying that the digital currencies are now accepted there. He then submitted the website’s URL to Reddit. Incredibly, he received a serious inquiry into booking the ‘Avalon’ villa, which costs $7,000 a week, to be paid for in dogecoin. He said: “I literally had the idea yesterday morning. I edited the website, put it up on Reddit. And then I got contacted [about a booking] last night.” Blakey stated that he had calculated it would cost 3.8m dogecoin to rent the Avalon villa. If the inquirer goes ahead with the booking, then Blakey will accept the dogecoin, convert it to bitcoin and then convert it once more to fiat currency for Island Villa. He plans to give altcoin customers an invoice with a 30-minute payment window to account for the altcoins’ high price volatility. Blakey said that accepting digital currencies at Island Villas was a reflection of his interest in the emerging digital currency economy, but it also served a practical purpose. Taking bitcoin payments is cheaper than current payment transfer methods like PayPal, he said. “I figured it was a no-brainer to throw it out there,” he added. Luxury villas Island Villas manages and rents 30 private properties to tourists visiting Port Antonio in the northeast of Jamaica. The villas range from one-bedroom properties to four-bedders situated on an eight-acre compound. Prices range from $3,000 a week to $10,000 a week. Most of the villas’ visitors are couples and families from the US, Germany and Switzerland, Yvonne Blakey said. Some of Island Villas’ properties are near the Blue Lagoon, a 170-foot deep body of water fed by a freshwater spring and open to the sea. It was a major hangout of the jetset in the 1950s, attracting the likes of Errol Flynn and Elizabeth Taylor. In more recent years, Harrison Ford, Cameron Diaz and Rhianna have enjoyed its deep blue waters.Port Antonio, Jamaica What does Yvonne Blakey, who has been running Island Villas since 2000, make of getting paid in dogecoin? “I’ve been ignorant about [digital currencies], but just yesterday we had guests from the United States, an older couple couple. I just asked them, do you know about bitcoin? He said, yes, of course. I was amazed. I’ve been asking a few other people and I’m amazed that this is around.” Jamaica’s love of dogecoin has been in the news recently. The Jamaican bobsleigh team received $30,000 worth of the dog-inspired cryptocurrency in donations this week to further its attempt to qualify for the Winter Olympics. The team was immortalised in a fictionalised account of their debut at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary in the Disney film Cool Runnings. Featured image: TomashDevenishek / Flickr
私人航空租赁公司privatefly接受比特币 privatefly旗下在全球范围内拥有7000架协议飞机,可以在90分钟内为客户提供服务 Service PrivateFly Now Accepts Bitcoin Emily Spaven (@emilyspaven) | Published on January 11, 2014 at 13:14 GMT | Companies, Lifestyle, Merchants, News inShare 3TweetShare90 Private jet booking service PrivateFly.com is now accepting payment in bitcoin. The company, which was founded in 2007, will accept bitcoins via popular payment processor BitPay. Customers can use the company’s online platform, apps and operations team to access a global network of over 7,000 private aircraft, booking charter flights within 90 minutes. Adam Twidell, co-founder and CEO at PrivateFly, said he has followed bitcoin closely since the beginning of 2012. “As a technology-led business in an industry built around the customer, we started investigating the introduction of bitcoin after a series of requests from our clients,” he explained. The company specialises in rapid-response flight requests, so Twidell wanted a payment system to match – something that wasn’t subject to the limitations of banking hours and could be used globally. He found what he was looking for in bitcoin. Twidell said he thinks bitcoin payments will be popular among his clients because of the flexibility and speed offered by the payment network. “We were surprised to find that bitcoin offers private jet customers many advantages over traditional currency payments via banks and credit cards,” he said. The CEO predicts that, this year, less than 5% of the payments received by PrivateFly will be in bitcoin, adding: “But who knows – nothing surprises me about the growth of bitcoin anymore!” To make a payment in bitcoin, PrivateFly customers simply have to log in, choose their flight and, when prompted to pay, select the option to do so with bitcoin.
Bitpay再次拿下另外加成人服务网站 Verotel网站宣布接受比特币,这是继全美最大成人服务商porn.com之后,bitpay拿下的另外一家大型成人内容服务商。 Adult Content Payment Processor Verotel Starts Accepting BitcoinDanny Bradbury (@dannybradbury) | Published on January 11, 2014 at 00:08 GMT | BitPay, Companies,NewsinShare1TweetShare10BitPay scored another big victory in the adult entertainment market Friday, when adult payment services firm Verotel announced a pilot program to accept bitcoin. The Amsterdam-based firm, which services 50,000 companies, is using BitPay to service its high-risk clients. Tony Gallippi, CEO of BitPay, said that the deal would significantly increase his company’s order volume. The specialist bitcoin payment processor currently has over 10,000 merchants. Verotel is a privately held company that doesn’t publish revenues, but industry estimates put its total net worth at around EUR25m ($34m). Verotel has been in operation since 1998. It has experimented with alternative payment mechanisms in the past including quick-entry ‘pay by password’ systems. The big advantage for Bitpay is that the Verotel deal unlocks the porn payment firm’s entire merchant portfolio. That won’t happen until March 15th, however, when Verotel opens up the current limited beta test to the rest of its customers. This is BitPay’s second big adult industry client this month, after signing Porn.com a week ago. The difference with Verotel is that it doesn’t sell the content itself. Instead, it provides payment services for adult entertainment merchants. Given that Verotel is itself a payment processor, why would it need BitPay?
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