Deux des plus grands détaillants technologiques d'Ukraine acceptent désormais Bitcoin

• Two of Ukraine’s largest tech retailers now accept bitcoin as payment for goods and services.
• Whitepay is providing the necessary payments infrastructure enabling in-store and online purchases.
• Ukrainian demand for daily bitcoin use grows as war efforts continue.

Deux des plus grands détaillants de technologie en Ukraine, Techno Zhak ainsi que Style, now accept bitcoin as payment for goods and services, per a report from local news outlet Obozrevatel.

Whitepay, un fournisseur d'infrastructure de paiement, sert de colonne vertébrale infrastructurelle pour faciliter les transactions entre les clients et les commerçants. Whitepay est sous le même toit que BlancBIT, l'un des plus grands échanges de crypto-monnaie d'Europe.

Bitcoin can be used with both retailers on online purchases or at their respective retail locations, which together amount to over 100. For in-store purchases, Whitepay custom point-of-sale (POS) system prints off a QR code on a receipt allowing merchants to see the exchange rate, transaction type, network, commissions paid and the amount of time from the start to the end of the transaction.

Ukrainian interest and commercial use for bitcoin has grown substantially in the wake of the Russian invasion. Previously, the country’s president signed a “On Virtual Currency” projet de loi into law providing a legal framework outlook for bitcoin to function in the economy since legislation prevented the government from accepting bitcoin donations at that time.

La signature du projet de loi fait suite à une augmentation demande for bitcoin’s use as a daily currency which was prompted by the influx of bitcoin dons envoyés à des groupes d'aide militaire.

Mykhailo Fedorov, ministre ukrainien de la transformation numérique, a récemment annoncé that $54 million of aid provided through bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies was used to provide the intended military support.