Customers tin plough over the sack merchandise Swiss francs for the digital currency.
Reuters
Oct 29 , 2016 6:50am
Switzerland's national railways line solid SBB is branching out adjacent calendar month amongst the launch of a novel service on its ticket machines to sell bitcoins , the web-based digital currency.
Beginning Nov eleven , customers volition endure able to merchandise Swiss francs for bitcoins using the ticket machines inwards a two-year experiment that volition exam Switzerland's appetite for the cryptocurrency , the state-owned society announced on Friday.
"There cause got been few possibilities to obtain bitcoins inwards Switzerland until right away ," SBB said. "With its 1000-plus ticket machines , SBB operates a dense , around-the-clock distribution network that's suited for to a greater extent than than only ticket sales."
SBB is working amongst Zug-based digital payments line solid SweePay to allow customers to exceed upwardly their digital 'bitcoin wallet' accounts yesteryear mobile phone.
SBB volition deed equally distributor , piece the central volition endure performed yesteryear SweePay too require users to concur an line organisation human relationship amongst a wallet service that allows storage of the digital currency.
Bitcoin is known for allowing users to deed money across the globe chop-chop too relatively anonymously but , on the Swiss ticket machines , users won't endure able to procure it without a trace: customers volition quest to lay themselves using a Swiss mobile phone.
While bitcoins tin plough over the sack endure purchased , they won't endure accepted equally payment at the machines , important ticket revenues volition endure unaffected yesteryear changes inwards the bitcoin central rate.
