{"id":12665,"date":"2014-12-21T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12665"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:09:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:09:10","slug":"over-800-payment-terminals-in-romania-now-sell-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/over-800-payment-terminals-in-romania-now-sell-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"Over 800 Payment Terminals in Romania Now Sell Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"single-author\"><a title=\"Posts by Joon Ian Wong\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/author\/joon-ian-wong\/\" rel=\"author\">Joon Ian Wong<\/a><\/span> \u2014 CoinDesk<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-article-full wp-image-130750\" src=\"\" alt=\"zebrapay\" width=\"630\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin is now available at 874 self-service payment terminals across Romania, thanks to a partnership between ATM operator Bitcoin Romania and terminal network operator ZebraPay.<\/p>\n<p>The ZebraPay terminals will allow customers to buy bitcoin at a 4% commission on prices taken from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/bank-montreal-open-rekindling-partnerships-bitcoin-businesses\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cointrader<\/a> exchange. The terminals are one-way, so customers can only trade their Romanian leu for bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>The terminals do not require customers to hand over identification documents when buying bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>The service has been available for two days but it has already sold 7.2 BTC, underscoring bitcoin\u2019s growing popularity in the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/800-payment-terminals-romania-now-sell-bitcoin\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CoinDesk+%28CoinDesk+-+The+Voice+of+Digital+Currency%29\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joon Ian Wong \u2014 CoinDesk Bitcoin is now available at 874 self-service payment terminals across Romania, thanks to a partnership between ATM operator Bitcoin Romania and terminal network operator ZebraPay. The ZebraPay terminals will allow customers to buy bitcoin at a 4% commission on prices taken from the Cointrader exchange. The terminals are one-way, so [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46702,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12665\/revisions\/46702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}