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http://www.coindesk.com/movietickets-com-bitcoin-payments-900-movie-theaters/

Are you from the USA have you already heard of a cinema accepting bitcoins as payment. A post was made by Pete Rizzo at coindesk dated June 15, 2015 saying that Movie Tickets.com will bring bitcoin to over 900 US movie theaters all over the United States. I was glad to read such article but given the date I am not certain if they have already implemented it or the theaters in the USA are already started to accept bitcoins.

Your thoughts on this..

Another step closer to bitcoin acceptance by the regular people. The more deals as such are being made, the better it will be for bitcoin and for the world as well. And after many such news we've seen in the past few months, I am quite hopeful for prosperous future of crypto currencies.

If that would be available in other countries as well, bitcoin usage would definitely have a boost as it is clearly a very good business. I work for a company that is in a lifestyle segment and our malls have cinemas scattered across the nation, and I hope the management would definitely look into crypto currencies as payment options, aside from the now trending entertainment reloadable card that is being accepted.

Back in 2015 this was big news, but things might have changed a bit since then. I know some merchants who started accepting Bitcoin has stopped, because there were not enough business to support for it. If we want services and merchants to continue supporting Bitcoin, we will have to use Bitcoin for their services.

Can anymore say if they still pay for movies with bitcoins?

Well that is sad news, I thought that they have continued the trade. Maybe it is just to early for them to implement such actions since as you mentioned there are no customers or clients that year that has access and holds bitcoin. But possibly this year it will be realized but not on America but in Japan since they already adopted bitcoin as a form pf payment in exchange for services and goods in their country.

I`ll pay with bitcoins in some cinema and watch the entire movie.
After the end of the movie the transaction would still be unconfirmed. ;D
Anyway, i wish Netflix and Hulu to accept bitcoins.

This is the coolest thing that I have read in all day, I have to admit that I got very excited when I read that. I had never thinking implement Bitcoin as payment method for movies,  would never have occurred to me. This is bring Bitcoin to people that probably not even heard about btc ever.

It's great in america if watch movies can already use btc, i've heard if the taxi payment also have been using btc When in Indonesia can be like that? Hahaha ...

Ha ha ha
Like a dream come true.
Maybe in 2020 all can happen ..
Dowry can also use bitcoin, amazing.
ha ha :D :D

I think it is not that cool, in fact I am expecting these to happen. I think it will be really happening these days, but what I am thinking is how long will I be waiting so I can get my ticket and how long will they wait for my transaction/payment. With these little by little, other who don't know bitcoin will be knowing it, I just hope they'll be also attracted to it.

Perhaps in some developed countries has applied such payments. But I'm not sure in many developing countries it can be applied for now, maybe for the future.

Recently came across an article where a corporate firm working on aircraft parking named skypark have started to accept bitcoin around the country in most of the major airports. Possibly they have stated to start the service throughout the entire airports in the country.

none of these merchant services will make a bean. who would be spending bitcoin now? who would be paying a $3 bitcoin fee to buy a ticket to a movie? something fundamental will need to change for any of this to worth anyone's while. i expect the amount of places you can spend bitcoin to carry on contracting.

It's no surprise when it comes to the United States, the United States is a developed nation, they soon accept bitcoin and use it in their lives, America is one of the world's leading bitcoin foundations. Anyway, this is also a good thing, I hope it appears in my country.

there are a lot of these things, indicating real adoption out there. and it is actually a good thing for those who keep repeating bitcoin is just store of value to take their heads out of the sand and look around them.

of course these things won't last long if the fees keep on rising like this. nobody is going to pay for anything with bitcoin if it is going to cost them a lot. we may not yet be there but we surely are headed that way.

this is good step for bitcoin, if there are more people that know and use bitcoin it will spread to the world, i hope cinemas in my country can accept bitcoin too especially if can buy ticket online and no need to wait so long to buy ticket in cinema

Hope it will be implemented to our country soon this can be more useful not to convert any bitcoin into fiat to us to use to buy ticket and if bitcoin can will be more growth then bitcoin will be more implemented on our country. Also i can see the real future of bitcoin that soon enough supermarket will accept bitcoin too.

Step will be repeated again because all that bitcoin acceptance more global and will create a new thing too, future crypto currency will prosper.

Can say that this is a new step of bitcoin, although not too significant. But with many progresses , the bitcoin will be used more widely. Once the bitcoin is used as other money, i think the bitcoin system and users will have these positive redirects, which will be expected.

We would love to see this happen? I'm love going to cinema and watching movies in HD or 3D and I'm willing to pay premium just to watch the movie. If this this happen or happening now, then I will be happy and take advantage of me paying with bitcoins. This is really a step closer for bitcoin to be really mass adopted.

I doubt there are a lot of people who use Bitcoin for actual purchases, especially now that volatility is so high and you'd pay a couple of dollars in fees alone.
On the other hand, with prices so high, people might be willing to 'cash out' by making some larger purchases with Bitcoin, in those cases even a fee of a couple of dollars isn't too bad.

I would buy movie tickets if they start selling movie tickets for Satoshis not BTC. Seeing the price of BTC, it has gone out of the phase where people will buy things or services from it. It is more of an investment right now, If it reaches 5k$ or 10k$ and gets stabilized then it will be a great currency.

Even if the price reach 5k$ or above also until the transaction fees is not got lowered and fast confirmation is not made till then i dont think that no one will buy any thing for bitcoins as the transaction fees itself is high then the movie tickets you are going to purchase. So this idea is waste on the current scenario

Glad to here that i hope that would be available in our country but i hope it didnt have a so much fees and also not too much price in bitcoin value but this is actually a good thing and one step ahead in the future of bitcoin that will be the mainstream currency in the future for sure.

Bitcoin cannot be used for micropayment because of tx fee issue. You will be paying more on fees than what you are purchasing. But this idea is not yet dead. If the scaling issues are resolved, the tx fee will be lowered and this idea can be pursued.

I don't know this news is true or fake. Because BTC confirmation is too late and if people buy tickets through bitcoin and the confirmation not done means they will allow us to watch a movie, or they will wait until the confirmation is done. I don't think it will work out. I am not from the USA, and in my country, we don't have this option.

I wonder how they will deal with the transactions delays. The can´t force people to buy tickets one week before and they can´t force them to pay high fees. I guess once the transaction is in the blockchain users will be able to watch the movie although the transaction is not confirmed yet. I guess Gocoin will take charge of this. It would be good for them to reach an agreement with some mining pool to put these transactions into a block.

I don't think they get it. Bitcoin is not appropriate for micro transactions.

You want to buy a movie ticket for $10 and pay a $3 transaction fee and wait for at least 10 minutes maybe longer for it to confirm? That's your business model? Doh.  ::)

I agree with you, I think the resolution of the scaling issues will put Bitcoin in the right position to be used in a daily basis for micropayments like buying movie tickets, coffee etc.

Using bitcoin in watching cinemas is a good idea for us. I think some mall will accept bitcoin as payment of there costumer. In the near future all market or mall in the world approved bitcoin.Lastly, I agree in that idea.

Is this true? well I think it is really fun, I hope that our country will have like that so that it is not hard for us to watch movies.  :D
Online or social media now are really powerful and we can make people believes in us even if we didn't really know the truth behind the story but one this is for sure, what you read from that article is really nice and really fun that you can enjoy if its really true.  ;D

Fees are still a problem that hinders the development of bitcoin, at high costs that are not common, and are not used in everyday transactions. However, fees will soon be fixed, which is essential, otherwise, bitcoin may be eliminated. I am waiting for segwit 2mb, it may be good measure to improve the situation.

Yes, it's true. Many merchants stopped used Bitcoin because it's not convenient for them, too little people pay using them and because of slow confirmation time.

I guess another problem is that most of us like anonimity and don't want that merchants know they use Bitcoin.

Lol, i also think about it is it true that the news is honest, if YES I also want it also exist in my country  8) 8) 8)

If the management where you are working right now accept bitcoin that is good because many bitcoin users will encourage to watch new movies. And if that happen it may also convince other country to accept bitcoin in cinemas

If this will happen. It can lead to boost the power and usage of bitcoin. Many users will be happy when they knew that cinemas accept bitcoin as a payment. Yes its true that this is one of the step for the future of bitcoin.

You can pay for online declamations.

That will happen if the government in your country accept bitcoin as a currency when it happen. Watching cinemas using bitcoin is not that impossible to happen. I believe that everything will start first if the government will allow and accept bitcoin as a money.

Your'e right.All changes should start from the government.If it will be allowed to buy and pay through bitcoin,then all good things for bitcoin will surely follow.

Yeah but the problem would still be the same...
What about the fees?
A cinema ticket is about 7$. Any tx right now needs a 3$ to go through.
See the problem?

I don't know how BTC can be used to daily purchased but in my opinion it's just not meant to be :/

Is it real? Well if this is real im gonna wait for  the cinemas here in our country to accept bitcoin and will watch all the movies I wanna watch. I knew it bitcoin is really a working progress and even though it has some problems, it can do many things that people will surely be satisfy of.

Are You waiting on prices in BTC or that they start working with exchangers to accept BTC?

If this is true, I would expect it to be in my country, it would be great because it shows that Bitcoin is getting more and more popular, the more service industries use Bitcoin. However, it also has many limitations. The biggest drawback is that as people have said, transaction speed and transaction fees will affect ticket purchases. If we buy tickets directly at the cinema then we will have to wait a while for the transaction to be completed. But I believe there is a way to fix it

For sure - pay in cash.

On the one hand, spending bitcoins would encourage more businesses to accept bitcoin. On the other hand, you have the price of bitcoin hitting new all time highs. That 0.0016 bitcoin or whatever it is you spent watching a movie could be worth $10K+ in a few years. It's happened before - BTC10K pizza anyone?

On a side note, fnck Hollywood and all it's self-important fncktards who presume to tell others how to think. You can watch new releases in HD for free on the interwebs nowadays anyway.

Bitcoin is not big enough to be dedicated payment method in cinemas. Don't get me wrong. I would very much like that idea and buy tickets with Bitcoin, but it's too early.
Who would buy cinema ticket with BTC? 1 in a 1000? That article about cinemas accepting bitcoin was linked to that movie Dope, but that movie was forgotten soon.

First things first, legalize bitcoin, make it legal payment tender - the way Japan did, and then we can add it as payment method in cinemas, and everywhere else.

What is Your Religion? 1BTC=$1.000.000. ?

I don't know about that, I do visit allot of cinemas but 1) not sure if our town's cinemas are under the influence of movietickets 2) as well as if that was implemented or 3) is still in action till now "many websites do remove BTC as an option of payment after a while"

Intersting that Americans getting so much forward about the bitcoin. It is obvious thing as bitcoin is new generation currency as well as Americans are really straight forward with there business, thats one of the good quality that they have which makes them successful in new techs. Looks like lot of big organisations also have accepted these coins and started as payment option. This is a good advertising strategy also as they know many of them are into bitcoin now a days. I like that so much is going on with bitcoin it is getting populate day by day.

So that's about 2 year ago right? I never heard people using bitcoin to watch cinema so i think they already abandoned that payment method simply because there's no one using it. If we want bitcoin to accepted by more merchants, we also have to use bitcoin to shop more often.