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TampaAnimusVortex

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3. Of course they are...

Reply to PoliticAverse (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 19, 2014, 11:50 AM

Jul 2014

It makes sense to do so until their suppliers also start accepting Bitcoins, at which point it becomes more profitable to pay them directly using the Bitcoins than converting them back to dollars. The Bitcoin environment is about at the same point that the internet was in 1994 or so.

All those predicting it's death have been wrong. It's growing as fast, if not faster than the internet itself.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2140660/bitcoin-akin-to-the-internet-20-years-ago-digital-currency-executive-says.html

It's here to stay.

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Dell starts accepting Bitcoin - among others. [View all] TampaAnimusVortex Jul 2014 OP

Note that Dell is using a third party processor, in this case Coinbase... PoliticAverse Jul 2014 #1

Of course they are... TampaAnimusVortex Jul 2014 #3

Digital currency PowerToThePeople Jul 2014 #2

So go ahead and make it. TampaAnimusVortex Jul 2014 #4

I am not into 3rd party currencies PowerToThePeople Jul 2014 #5

What attribute of a state currency are you wanting? TampaAnimusVortex Jul 2014 #6

i thought bitcoin was dead, exposed as a bogus ponzi scheme ChisolmTrailDem Jul 2014 #7

Well you learned something new then today... TampaAnimusVortex Jul 2014 #8

Where's the REC button on sub-thread posts? ChisolmTrailDem Jul 2014 #9