{"id":41372,"date":"2021-04-25T19:58:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T16:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=41372"},"modified":"2025-08-30T18:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:30:57","slug":"venezuelan-aviation-school-offers-discounts-for-bitcoin-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/venezuelan-aviation-school-offers-discounts-for-bitcoin-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan aviation school offers discounts for Bitcoin payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caracas Air, the largest centre for aviation personnel training in Venezuela, began accepting the first cryptocurrency as payment for training.<\/p>\n<p>For those choosing the new payment method, the school is prepared to offer discounts and financing plans, said Caracas Air co-founder and CEO Oliver Laufer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">From today we accept <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> and we will offer discounts and financing plans to everyone who chooses this new method of payment. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qpi0fS5SSc\">pic.twitter.com\/qpi0fS5SSc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oliver Laufer (@OliverLaufer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OliverLaufer\/status\/1386118678379331588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the centre&#8217;s website, about 900 students are educated there each year, and its graduates account for nine out of ten new crew members on passenger aircraft.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abCaracas Air has two passions: aviation and Venezuela. We believe in the importance of initiatives, investments and creating new, high-quality opportunities in our country. And we do not believe that one can do without innovation\u00bb, the company&#8217;s page says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the launch of the national digital currency El Petro, Bitcoin remains popular with residents. According to LocalBitcoins, in 2020 Venezuelan residents ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/localbitcoins-russia-venezuela-and-colombia-accounted-for-40-of-trades-in-2020\">second in trading volume<\/a> of the first cryptocurrency on the p2p trading platform.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the country, Burger King and pizzerias <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/venezuelas-pizza-hut-branch-begins-accepting-bitcoin\">Pizza Hut<\/a> began accepting Bitcoin as payment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Caracas Air, the largest aviation training centre in Venezuela, began accepting the first cryptocurrency as payment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41373,"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":[1240],"class_list":["post-41372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-venezuela-cryptocurrency-market"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41374,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41372\/revisions\/41374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}