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Auto Insurer to Allow Policyholders to Send, Receive Payments in Bitcoin
San Francisco-based Metromile will purchase $10 million worth of bitcoin to offer policyholders an option for payment of claims.
Updated May 9, 2023, 3:18 a.m. Published May 6, 2021, 2:51 p.m.
Customers of auto insurance company Metromile will soon be able to pay premiums and accept claim payments in bitcoin.
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- Nasdaq-listed Metromile (MILE, MILEW) will be the first insurance company to offer both crypto services, the firm said in an announcement Thursday.
- The San Francisco-based startup, which offers pay-per-mile auto insurance, will purchase $10 million worth of bitcoin in Q2 2021 to offer policyholders as an option for payment of claims.
- Metromile said this would promote “financial resilience” as cryptocurrency becomes more mainstream and forms a more significant portion of consumers’ assets.
- The Swiss arm of insurance giant AXA announced in April that it would be giving customers the option to pay premiums in bitcoin.
- However, it stressed that bitcoin received would not be carried on the firm’s balance sheet, but converted into fiat through broker Bitcoin Suisse.
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