posted by
n1
on Thursday January 01 2015, @07:23PM
from the will-bitcoin-be-excluded-from-nyc-app? dept.
from the will-bitcoin-be-excluded-from-nyc-app? dept.
New York City wants to make it easier for the recipients of its some 8-to-10 million annual parking tickets to pay their fines. To do so, it's accepting pitches for payment systems that'd take advantage of mobile tech and things like Apple Pay and bitcoin. New York has an online payment system in place already, but as The Wall Street Journal notes, it doesn't work via mobile devices.
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Will You Be Able to Pay Parking Tickets with Bitcoin in 2015?
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Doctor on Thursday January 01 2015, @09:02PM
As Betteridge's law of headlines states: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
A government accept bitcoin? You must be joking. It would undermine their control of the population.
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(Score: 2) by n1 on Thursday January 01 2015, @09:13PM
Please see the alternative headline in the dept. title as a response to Betteridge's law on this occasion. :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 01 2015, @09:30PM
> A government accept bitcoin? You must be joking. It would undermine their control of the population.
City governments have zero interest in controlling currency beyond their ability to collect and spend it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 02 2015, @04:48PM
I live in a development/city/district/county/state. None of these make currency, all of them use it. If everyone in town wanted to pay their city taxes in euros, someone at the city would take the euros down to the bank and exchange them at market rate. The city controls its population through laws, taxes, and fines. The currency of those fines has no relevance.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 01 2015, @09:27PM
Since you've got 30 day's to pay your NYC parking tickets (before a penalty is assessed) be sure to monitor Bitcoin's value so you can pay at its peak. Think of it as the Bitcoin Discount Program ;-)
(Score: 3, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday January 01 2015, @10:16PM
be sure to monitor Bitcoin's value so you can pay at its peak.
Can I borrow your time machine? Even if it only covers 30 days, I could get a lot done.
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