Ride-sharing giant Uber has taken another step towards blockchain
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When the service goes live later this year, Solve.Care’s clients will not only be able to schedule doctor’s visits and book rides to healthcare care appointments, but they’ll also be able to pay for the services using either of the company’s native tokens, representing the first time any Uber subsidiary has opened up its doors to a company using cryptocurrency.
, such partnerships, where a well-known publicly traded company gets to learn about blockchain up close and personal but without skin in the game, are likely to be increasingly common. Launched in March 2018, Uber Health is a wholly owned subsidiary of Uber, which went public in May with plans to expand its healthcare offerings. The stock is currently trading at $42.95, down 8% over the past five days. Trigub says “dozens” of companies have since tapped directly into Uber Health’s application programming interface , giving them direct access to the transportation giant’s fleet of cars. Since the API is designed to comply with the U.S.
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