Progressive Care, a Florida health-care company, has started accepting bitcoin as payment for its COVID-19 rapid testing services.
- The service is now available at Progressive Care’s PharmcoRx locations in North Miami Beach, according to an announcement Friday.
- The announcement coincides with the Bitcoin 2021 conference taking place in Miami this weekend, with 50,000 guests in attendance. Many of these are thought to be visiting from abroad, Progressive Care said.
- With a negative test required by most airlines, Progressive Care “are happy to invite bitcoin holders to our locations for all their COVID-19 testing needs,” CEO Alan Jay Weisberg said.
- PharmcoRx first accepted cryptocurrency as payment for pharmacy services in 2018.