{"id":43772,"date":"2021-06-04T16:17:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T13:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=43772"},"modified":"2025-08-31T13:50:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:50:48","slug":"us-pharmacies-begin-selling-covid-19-tests-for-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/us-pharmacies-begin-selling-covid-19-tests-for-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"US pharmacies begin selling COVID-19 tests for Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American company Progressive Care <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2021\/06\/04\/2241958\/0\/en\/Progressive-Care-to-Accept-Bitcoin-as-Payment-for-COVID-19-Rapid-Testing-Solutions.html\">began accepting<\/a> bitcoin as payment for COVID-19 rapid testing.<\/p>\n<p>Tests can be purchased with cryptocurrency via a QR code. The service is available at PharmcoRx pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p>The company stressed that it believes in the future of blockchain and wants to offer testing for those with an alternative view of payment systems.<\/p>\n<p>Progressive Care noted that the new option would appear ahead of the large Bitcoin 2021 conference, which is expected to draw more than 50,000 attendees.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in April, the Swiss unit of AXA Group, one of the world&#8217;s largest insurers, added <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/axa-begins-accepting-bitcoin-payments-in-switzerland\">the ability to pay in Bitcoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American company Progressive Care began accepting Bitcoin as payment for rapid COVID-19 testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1863,1414,26],"class_list":["post-43772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-coronavirus","tag-medicine","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43773,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43772\/revisions\/43773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}