{"id":988623,"date":"2026-01-29T12:13:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988623"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:13:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:43:45","slug":"bitcoin-for-car-insurance-dubai-becomes-first-to-accept-crypto-for-insurance-premium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/bitcoin-for-car-insurance-dubai-becomes-first-to-accept-crypto-for-insurance-premium\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin for car insurance? Dubai becomes first to accept crypto for insurance premium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget writing checks or waiting for bank transfers. In a move that has sent shockwaves through the regional financial sector, Dubai Insurance has officially opened the doors for UAE residents to pay their insurance premiums using Bitcoin (BTC) and other major cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>As of January 2026, following a landmark regulatory shift in the DIFC, the company has launched a specialized digital wallet that integrates directly with your crypto portfolio. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget writing checks or waiting for bank transfers. In a move that has sent shockwaves through the regional financial sector, Dubai Insurance has officially opened the doors for UAE residents to pay their insurance premiums using Bitcoin (BTC) and other major cryptocurrencies. As of January 2026, following a landmark regulatory shift in the DIFC, the company has launched a specialized digital wallet that integrates directly with your crypto portfolio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}