World’s First Airline To Accept Bitcoin(airbaltic.com)
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World’s First Airline To Accept Bitcoin
https://www.airbaltic.com/airbaltic-worlds-first-airline-to-accept-bitcoin
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Pretty sure this is more of a publicity stunt than anything else but still, things are moving in an interesting direction!
Using airBaltic to get to Hamburg for CCC every year. This goes along with my direction.
These stories of "another merchant using Coinbase/Bitpay/etc." don't do anything to stimulate intellectual curiosity. Flagged.
I find it interesting that an airline, one of a different class of companies that haven't previously accepted BTC, does so now. Not to mention that it is a 99.8% state-owned company.
I love bitcoin, but buying airline tickets with bitcoin is a terrible idea. Airlines go bust all the time with zero warning and anyone who pays with cash/bitcoin is going to be out a lot of money.
Not very likely in this case - it's a state-owned flag carrier, it's been propped up a few times already and it didn't go under when it had massive losses so it won't happen now when it's finally turning a profit.