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Title: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: Gordonium on June 14, 2013, 10:22:17 PM Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: Jozzaboy on June 14, 2013, 10:25:57 PM Hey Earl! Is this one of these thingymajiggers... a bear toss?
Na Jake, he's just one of those special people. Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: Lohoris on June 14, 2013, 10:26:27 PM Unlikely.
Currently the trend is creating a fake centralised currency which actually isn't even a currency at all since you can't exchange it with other people; i.e. a credits system which trick the users into thinking it's a currency instead. And Facebook already has credits (at least they don't pretend they are something else, AFAIK). I guess it will be something else, completely unrelated. Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: ElectricMucus on June 14, 2013, 10:26:57 PM What is a Bear Toss? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=197892.0)
Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: torba on June 14, 2013, 10:33:11 PM Way to get my hopes up high.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/14/facebook-reader/ Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: phoenix1 on June 14, 2013, 10:33:32 PM Yeah, I hear Zuck is really good mates with the twins after the law suit - wants to make them rich ;D
Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: str4wm4n on June 15, 2013, 12:14:48 AM yay they're joining prisim!
Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: WinVery.com on June 15, 2013, 12:24:32 AM Not bloody likely
Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: Gordonium on June 15, 2013, 12:30:02 AM Yeah, I hear Zuck is really good mates with the twins after the law suit - wants to make them rich ;D Let's say you could become trillionaire by making your old enemies billionaires. What would you do? Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: BitAddict on June 15, 2013, 01:03:54 AM Omg, thanks for giving me a heart attack for nothing...
Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: maco on June 15, 2013, 01:26:13 AM What fake currency are you talking about? it sounds like you know something we may not. Tell us!
Unlikely. Currently the trend is creating a fake centralised currency which actually isn't even a currency at all since you can't exchange it with other people; i.e. a credits system which trick the users into thinking it's a currency instead. And Facebook already has credits (at least they don't pretend they are something else, AFAIK). I guess it will be something else, completely unrelated. Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: QuantumKiwi on June 15, 2013, 03:02:14 AM Facebook will not be incorporating bitcoin into any payment gateways at this point due to the unreliable US dollar. If it didn't jump so fast it would be looked at.
Can't provide source, but can say they are within facebook. Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: Lohoris on June 15, 2013, 09:35:06 AM What fake currency are you talking about? it sounds like you know something we may not. Tell us! amazon, for instance?Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: wordofmouth on June 15, 2013, 10:22:41 AM What fake currency are you talking about? it sounds like you know something we may not. Tell us! Guess he's talking about this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Credits interesting read. Seems like Facebook is discontinuing the facebook credit idea and will refund all users in FIAT. FinCen according to this wiki compares Facebook Credits to Bitcoin, in term of regulation at least.. Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: worldinacoin on June 15, 2013, 10:27:46 AM Goodness, the sentence is so vague, it can mean anything in the world!!!! How do you associate it with Bitcoin in the first place?
Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: Lohoris on June 15, 2013, 11:08:08 AM What fake currency are you talking about? it sounds like you know something we may not. Tell us! Guess he's talking about this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Credits I'm talking about Amazon Coins (http://www.wired.com/business/2013/02/amazon-coins-currency/) instead, which are marketed as a currency when they clearly aren't (i.e. they are just "credits"). The difference between a currency and credits is that a currency may be exchanged between different users, while credits always go through the issuer. Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: dave111223 on June 15, 2013, 01:22:04 PM Goodness, the sentence is so vague, it can mean anything in the world!!!! How do you associate it with Bitcoin in the first place? I think he mistook the coffee stain mark from the bitcoin logo :D Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: Operatr on June 15, 2013, 03:33:36 PM I could totally see Facebook creating FaceBookCoin in the same streak as other "coins" like Apple iMoney and AmazonCoin, neither of which are cryptocurrencies but centralized web-coupon garbage not unlike web currencies of the 2000s .com implosion.
But, I would still hold hope Zuckerberg sees the light and actually pushes to accept the real deal as payment for ad services and such. Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: xavier on June 16, 2013, 08:18:37 AM Yeah, I hear Zuck is really good mates with the twins after the law suit - wants to make them rich ;D Let's say you could become trillionaire by making your old enemies billionaires. What would you do? If its riskless, i would do it. Enemies one day, friends the next Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: CMMPro on June 16, 2013, 12:26:25 PM facebook is fast becoming totally irrelevant to anyone under 20...I've seen my teenage son and daughter and all their friends completely dropping off facebook in the past year...I know this is the end for them. They have a few short years left but will eventually be another myspace trying too hard for an audience that is no longer interested.
I also can't see them ever making a move to something like this that they cannot completely control. Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: ElectricMucus on June 16, 2013, 06:38:31 PM facebook is fast becoming totally irrelevant to anyone under 20...I've seen my teenage son and daughter and all their friends completely dropping off facebook in the past year...I know this is the end for them. They have a few short years left but will eventually be another myspace trying too hard for an audience that is no longer interested. I also can't see them ever making a move to something like this that they cannot completely control. seems pretty stable to me. http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=400&h=220&o=f&c=1&y=r&b=ffffff&n=666666&r=2y&u=facebook.com& Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: dexX7 on June 16, 2013, 06:46:41 PM ;D
Quote Not exactly, but that's the literal translation of the article's title, and I couldn't make a better one. http://index.hu/tech/2013/05/28/bitcoinrol_beszelt_zuckerberg_olvasonknak/ Alright. Translated the entire first part of the article: It is already confirmed that Facebook founder, Marck Zuckerberg is in Hungary. He's been staying in Europe for a while, in Coppenhagen he had a discussion with the prime minister, in Germany he talked with representatives, and he spent the Sunday in Vienna. By Monday evening he was in Hungary, eating in the restaurant called Spíler. Our readers caught him last night at 1:30 AM around the Király street. They could not talk with him much, but based on what he said even Bitcoin, the digital currency, could be the reason behind his visit to Hungary. Here's Gábor's report: We wanted to take a photo with him, but he didn't let us. We asked him why he came to Budapest, he asked back whether we know about Bitcoin. I had no idea what it is, didn't even understand what he's saying, but a buddy of mine knew about it, but by the time he'd have told it to him he already walked away from us, in a polite but assertive way. We have got no idea what Bitcoin has to do with Budapest, maybe the famously strange CEO was just kidding. index.hu is one of the biggest Hungarian news sites, they're very reliable, but the part about Bitcoin is entirely based on a reader's letter. http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1f77qd/mark_zuckerberg_talks_about_bitcoin_in_hungary/ At the same time, they say, was a Bitcoin meetup nearby in Budapest. ;) Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: ElectricMucus on June 16, 2013, 07:01:27 PM Quote Not exactly, but ... Not exactly, but Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: bbit on June 16, 2013, 07:01:43 PM LOL!
Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: Singlebyte on June 16, 2013, 07:21:55 PM What a misleading title. :-[
Title: Re: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! Post by: moni3z on June 16, 2013, 07:27:57 PM teens/young adults are dropping facebook faster than ever because their entire family is now on FB and the last thing you want is your parents and extended family watching everything you do online.
i see facebook dying a horrible death in a few years |
