Offer bitcoins as a currency choice for payments
Bitcoins are a new digital currency that are great for cross-border payments. I would much rather pay for services in bitcoins than other currencies. Please consider this!
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I couldn't agree with you more in regards to options, although I am concerned that you would say you want nothing to do with them. Seems that you need to do a bit of research into the benefits. My guess is that most people who live in the UK find it hard to see the benefit, but what you will not know is that transferring money from one country to another is expensive and there are 2.5 billion people without a bank account worldwide and nearly a million in the UK. Also I sell products online and PayPal take nearly 20% in fees.
Still I am glad you are open to the idea, as there are many of us who really need this option
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I don't reside in the UK, I'm stateside. Like I said, I have no problem if other people want to get involved in bitcoin, but the currency I am using right now works just fine. I am a full time student and running my freelancing business, so learning about new currencies just isn't a priority for me, and from what I have heard, bitcoin is very volatile. I would like the option to decline bitcoin if it ever becomes an option in the future.
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I'm not sure how many people live in the real World like me and how many live in some other place, where everything in the garden is in full bloom and everyone always smiles.
In the real World there really is only one medium that works and that is money. Real hard honest to goodness money. At the moment I get it transferred from PPH direct to my bank at no costs and within a reasonable period of time.
If I was abroad, I could use PayPay which, whilst almost universally despised, allows cross border transactions.
I do not wish to be offered nor to pay using a mythical beast that comes from mining a non-existent electronic World. Bitcoins have no proper regulation, you can't touch them and, it seems to me that, if I really wanted to, I could pretend that I had lots and pay everyone with them. Has no-one heard of Mt Gox? It collapsed and lots of people were left with nothing - but then that's all they had in the first place.
Friday rant over - you can all get on with what you were doing - just don't offer me bit coins!
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Yep I get what you say, as you mention you are in the garden where everything is rosy, I live in a different world were everything is not so rosy. I have to admit I do not despise PayPal, because to be honest without it I would not have succeeded and to me the fee is worth it.
Where you are missing the point with bitcoin is the protocol, the ability to transfer money or documents seamlessly where everyone can agree that you own that piece of land or whatever it may be. It isnt about the coin or the value it is the blockchain.
Eventually no one will even notice bitcoin, but the fact finally we can transfer property seamlessly.
Interestingly you should mention MtGox, did you see what happened in Greece and what with all the banks going bankrupt
The funny thing about Gox, is that it actually shows you why bitcoin is superior. A lot of people learnt that letting someone look after your money can be dangerous. With the bitcoin protocol you actually physically own it
It is not perfect and nor was the internet or email, but as products develop we will be using it without even knowing it. For that matter why wouldn't banks use it.
Anyway I am not the person to ask about how it works, but Chris and Vanessa if you send me your bitcoin address I will send you a couple of dollars each to see what it is all about. Oh and Chris I did read that you do not want to accept, but it is the only way to really understand
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Well Stephen, you're nothing if not persistent. I have to decline your offer as I do not have a bitcoin address, have no interest in acquiring a bitcoin address, and really don't have the time or inclination to research bitcoin. Thanks anyway and I hope this virtual currency works out for you. Me, I'll just watch from afar.
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