France’s Third Largest Bus Company Accepts Bitcoin

The third largest bus company in France, Isilines, has started accepting bitcoin as part of a six-month test-run. Isilines is the first company in its sector to accept a cryptocurrency.

Partnership with Paymium

To accept bitcoin payments, Isilines has partnered with a Frenchpaymium logo bitcoin bus fare
startup, Paymium, an online exchange. Paymium offers merchant processing and many other services similar to Coinbase, specializing in compliant trade between bitcoin and euros.

The Paris-based bitcoin outlet matches buyers with sellers on both an over-the-counter exchange and a real-time trading exchange, plus it has other services, including business payment processing and sending bitcoins over email, all in compliance with European payment service regulations.