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Title: Can someone explain something to me?
Post by: gweedo on February 07, 2013, 08:30:46 AM
Am I on crazy pills or did the people that create http://pizzaforcoins.com have some good PR people. I saw at least two articles that linked to them and one even tried to contact them. I would have never guess pizza has this type of power. Time to change my plan of building a [ insert satoshi dice / casino / gambling site here] clone, and go for the pizza.


Title: Re: Can someone explain something to me?
Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on February 07, 2013, 09:00:41 AM
Pizza and alpaca socks are pseudonymous with Bitcoin.


Title: Re: Can someone explain something to me?
Post by: dust on February 07, 2013, 09:03:51 AM
Pizza and alpaca socks are pseudonymous with Bitcoin.
synonymous?


Title: Re: Can someone explain something to me?
Post by: JusticeForYou on February 07, 2013, 09:06:20 AM
Am I on crazy pills or did the people that create http://pizzaforcoins.com have some good PR people. I saw at least two articles that linked to them and one even tried to contact them. I would have never guess pizza has this type of power. Time to change my plan of building a [ insert satoshi dice / casino / gambling site here] clone, and go for the pizza.

The day after Dominoes announces they'll take BTC, I will sell all my holdings.


Title: Re: Can someone explain something to me?
Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on February 07, 2013, 03:33:49 PM
Pizza and alpaca socks are pseudonymous with Bitcoin.
synonymous?

Si, I got the first part wrong, so have psy pseu me.


Title: Re: Can someone explain something to me?
Post by: edd on February 07, 2013, 03:58:06 PM
Am I on crazy pills or did the people that create http://pizzaforcoins.com have some good PR people. I saw at least two articles that linked to them and one even tried to contact them. I would have never guess pizza has this type of power. Time to change my plan of building a [ insert satoshi dice / casino / gambling site here] clone, and go for the pizza.

I think physical, non-mining related goods for bitcoins have a big impact, period. I have no PR people and BitBrew has been linked to in several articles:

http://economia.migueldearriba.net/2011/06/el-fenomeno-bitcoin-la-moneda-electronica-de-internet/
http://www.sovereignlife.com/files/moneyrevolution.pdf
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/bitcoin-based-casino-rakes-in-over-500000-profit-in-six-months/

I was even interviewed and had a bag of my coffee appear on the cover of the October 29th, 2012 issue of Tax Notes International® (http://tax.org/www/website.nsf/Web/InternationalTaxNews?OpenDocument). (Unfortunately, this is not a free publication.)


Title: Re: Can someone explain something to me?
Post by: Giftsforcoins on February 10, 2013, 03:55:48 AM
Am I on crazy pills or did the people that create http://pizzaforcoins.com have some good PR people. I saw at least two articles that linked to them and one even tried to contact them. I would have never guess pizza has this type of power. Time to change my plan of building a [ insert satoshi dice / casino / gambling site here] clone, and go for the pizza.

You are just as surprised as we were gweedo!!! We posted the site on this forum on a sunday night and monday morning the site exploded. We did not have ANY PR people. I guess we just had luck.

-Riley Alexander
Co-Founder PizzaforCoins.com


Title: Re: Can someone explain something to me?
Post by: 21after2 on February 10, 2013, 03:58:47 AM
I think physical, non-mining related goods for bitcoins have a big impact, period.

I agree. The media isn't concerned with the technical information. They want the practical application. If Bitcoin is going to catch on as a worldwide currency or payment option (however you want to view it), it needs to connect with the casual consumer. And the casual consumer wants pizza and coffee, not ASICs and mining securities. ;)


Title: Re: Can someone explain something to me?
Post by: Mike Christ on February 10, 2013, 04:10:01 AM
Not too surprising it got so popular.  There are a lot of services linked with bitcoin that don't actually provide anything tangible; mostly to do with bitcoin itself and gambling.  But what we need right now are more ways to spend bitcoin, and pizza delivery is something a lot of us use our money for.  Thank you to the guys who thought up pizza for bitcoin, and I hope more people follow your path in creating real services for me to use my coin with ;D


Title: Re: Can someone explain something to me?
Post by: Lethn on February 10, 2013, 06:32:30 AM
It will happen, just you wait, kicking myself into working on things now too because I know any money I earn isn't going to be worthless in a year or two.


Title: Re: Can someone explain something to me?
Post by: Giftsforcoins on February 10, 2013, 03:38:59 PM
Just thought i'd mention, we will be rolling out with PizzaHut and Papa John's in the next 1-3 days. :) We will continue to expand as we have time and resources to do so!

-Riley Alexander
Co-Founder Pizzaforcoins.com


Title: Re: Can someone explain something to me?
Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on February 10, 2013, 05:34:47 PM
Just thought i'd mention, we will be rolling out with PizzaHut and Papa John's in the next 1-3 days. :) We will continue to expand as we have time and resources to do so!

-Riley Alexander
Co-Founder Pizzaforcoins.com

Rosati's (http://www.rosatispizza.com/) in Chicago.

https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/1347573460/Rosatis_logofinal-_2_-mediu.jpg