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American comedian and producer Louis Székely, professionally known as Louis C.K has started to accept bitcoin payments for his comedy show performed at Madison Square Garden.

The audio-only show can be purchased with bitcoin through BitPay, and customers can choose the price for this audio album. Louis CK mentioned on his website:

“We have the price set to 5 dollars but you can lower it to 1 dollar or raise it to 85. that's the maximum, because beyond that, I don't want your crazy money.”

Louis C.K is the first comedian ever to accept bitcoin for comedy albums and shows.

You can read full article write here : http://cointelegraph.com/news/115085/comedian-louis-ck-begins-accepting-bitcoin

There is also a fan who said : "“I was actually just looking for some standup comedy on Youtube, then noticed this post. Best $10 ever spent.”

I personally don't know this guy because I'am not from USA and never heard of him or saw him on TV but he seems like a celebrity and it's nice to see Celebrities like him and Mike Tayson coming to Bitcoin world :) What do you guys think ??. Also in case you want to support the guy here is his website : louisck.net , He added Bitpay on the payment methods .

The more the merrier and he is a big deal. It's weird that Bitpay is listed as a payment option on his site and not Bitcoin.

He chose bitpay probably because they auto convert the btc to usd and then send to his bank account. Most services who accept bitcoin throw bitpay actually only receive usd and not bitcoin.

I know that, but the payment option should be named Bitcoin, not Bitpay. There might be BTC holders in far off lands who've never heard of Bitpay.

i dont actually know what is bitpay but i know bitcoin...
but even its bitpay or bitcoin it will be a big support in bitcoin..

Most people like two best things in the world: porn and comedy. Now, both of those have got into bitcoin, and sooner or later bitcoin will be known by all people in the world, no doubt about it. Like OP said, I dont know who that guy is, but he is awesome.

What is the big deal? I accept bitcoins too, you can send me as many coins as you like. Check my btc address in my profile.

Who is this comedian guy anyways? Why would we care?

I think artists, celebrities, and even the world have started to know about bitcoin
so maybe a lot of comedians who will use bitcoin  :)

If he did this work also artists in Turkey
I was really tired of carrying cash :) :)

Sooo great!  And CK is a pioneer in comedy, he was the first to make his own special on his dime and sell it on his site for $5, looks like the innovation will continue.

Cheers!

Excellent news! The more people in the public eye who accept bitcoin the better for us. It gives us exposure & more chance of bitcoin reaching out to average joe. I'm not from the US so I haven't heard of Louis C.K, is he a big deal over in the US?

Obviously Madison Square Garden is a massively famous venue, I just hope this news reaches a lot of potential investors.

I don't think that he cares about bitcoin at all.  He only cares about USD, I mean why would they choose to use a bitcoin payment processing ? He could directly receive bitcoin a public address (if there is one).

Caring about bitcoin doesn't matter.  The more that places accept bitcoin as a method of payment, the more it will grow.

If you want mainstream adoption, we need someone like Ticketmaster to accept BTC. Either through Bitpay, which is meh but still would be good publicity, or directly which would be huge. I personally despise Ticketmaster, but for the most part they are the only game in town for most big venues.

This is awesome news! :D Louis CK is a hilarious guy, and he doesn't have a rap sheet like Mike Tyson to criticize.

Bitpay found a great niche to facilitate bitcoin payments AND get more press and notable people, organizations, and causes to accept bitcoin for payment.

Louis C.K. is great...check out his comedy, buy this show (give him BTC0.05, he's worth it), enjoy it, then check out some of his other work. He has a TV show called Louie as well. He's quite well known in the business.

Well actually you could carry a debt card or credit card then  :D

Sometime we need a movement by the celebrities for bitcoin to gain popularity in society imo.

The first criteria people have when buy something is the brand, thats why Apples products always be popular, no matter what the function of those products. Well I hope when bitcoin used by many celebs, then people could be interested with that and they will know that bitcoin have many advantages with it.

This is probably the most chatter he's gotten in a while

haha

I used to watch his show but when I got new cable he fell off my dvr schedule

Good for btc that he is taking it even if off of bitpay

Shows you how 'mainstream' and 'hip' it is becoming

Now if a major singer would just say here is my new song and YOU MUST USE BTC

Bingo instant major news in a positive light

Good news, I have seem a small bit of his stuff and it has been pretty good.  He is quite the top comedian around the place so this can only be good news for Bitcoin. 

Bitcoin is the perfect solution for artists to sell their goods online and maintain full control. This is definitely the way forward.

Ha! This is great. I've enjoyed most of his comedy shows. Is it also possible to purchase the videos? I can't seem to find that option on the site.

I think that bitcoin is perfect solution for anyone who sells or offers something over the Internet :)
In the beginning is not easy to get popular and famous names on our side, but as bitcoin is growing in its popularity more and more users (famous and ordinary) will recognize the advantages of bitcoin and begin to actively use it.
Time works in our favor and I think that bitcoin is very near to become mainstream.

It is a shame that some of you are unfamiliar with Louis C.K. I used to watch his every standup show on youtube back in the day.
He is really good comedian, but on top of that his jokes are very didactic imo. Bitcoin acceptance from celebrity of his caliber is really big.
Some of his fans might investigate what bitcoin is because of that.

That is just beginning and very soon world famous celebrities will start accepting this innovation, bitcoin is perfect currency for daily usage so we have to wait for this to happen when bitcoin will be the only mainstream currency.   

Great, I've always enjoyed watching his shows, hope that more celebs will follow.
Stuff like this can only help make Bitcoin more popular.

Wow, that is huge.
I am not really familiar with that stuff, but I guess Louis C.K is currently more popular than Mike Tyson.

I wonder, how he came to it. Louis C.K doesn't seem like a tech savy person, but neither seems Tatiana Moroz(quite the different, since I started listening to her show on the LTB network).

I guess artists will be the next big adopters for crypto currency/p2p-networks, since they got screwed over by a lot of companies in the last few years.

I agree, especially if they are not tied to publishers or whatever, I think Bitcoin will become popular among independent artists.
They can save quite a lot because of the low transaction fees etc.

In the past few years, a lot of comedians have broken free from submitting to TV networks and are able to market themselves on social media and most of them have successful podcasts.  So bitcoin is a great way for them to bring in some additional income.  I know Joe Rogan is a bitcoin user as well.

This is awesome, he's very widely known and hopefully this can get us more exposure.

I'm waiting for the moment where we can pay a concert with Bitcoin :D
Or pay a ticket to watch a movie on a theater with Bitcoin :)

While im glad mega celebrities like CK Louis begin accepting BTC, I have serious doubts if their followers will have a clue what the hell Bitcoin is. Hopefully they are curious and check it out tho.

That's totally true, human will always curious.
That's why it is a good thing when a famous people start to use Bitcoin ;)