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Title: The Talking History Podcast now takes Bitcoin! Post by: crazy_rabbit on September 13, 2013, 05:38:19 PM One of my favorite podcasts on iTunes, the "Talking History Podcast: The Italian Unification" now takes bitcoin thanks to listener requests. So if you like Italian or European History, be sure to check it out on Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-history-italian-unification/id672296937
And you can see there website and the ability to donate in Bitcoin here: http://www.talkinghistorypodcast.com/index.html Title: Re: The Talking History Podcast now takes Bitcoin! Post by: Stephen Gornick on September 13, 2013, 08:36:44 PM now takes bitcoin thanks to listener requests. Yup, they even wrote it on their site: Quote At the request of some listeners, we've also added the ability to donate Bitcoins! - http://www.talkinghistorypodcast.com/donate.htmlThese "requests" to merchants don't come from some corporate marketing department like a Square or Google Wallet would have to employ. Instead, these requests come from individuals who are motivated either because of their politics (desire for a nonpolitical currency) or for their own personal financial gain (as investors/speculators hoping further acceptance will cause the exchange rate to rise.) But its growth will continue rapidly because each party acquiring bitcoins (whether by donation like Talking History podcast, or as income, or for speculation, etc.) in turn becomes the next Bitcoin salesperson. Until there is saturation, there will be upside in value (exchange rate) with each additional bit of traction Bitcoin gains as a payment method. With only 4% of those in the U.S. even aware of bitcoin (results of a recent survey at a mall), Bitcoin has so much room to go yet. This appreciating value is the "startup funding" that pays for this global "salesforce". It's a phenomena that the world has never experienced before. Title: Re: The Talking History Podcast now takes Bitcoin! Post by: Carlton Banks on September 13, 2013, 10:19:25 PM These "requests" to merchants don't come from some corporate marketing department like a Square or Google would have to employ. Instead, these requests come from individuals who are motivated either because of their politics (desire for a nonpolitical currency) or for their own personal financial gain (as investors/speculators hoping further acceptance will cause the exchange rate to rise.) A powerful means of promotion indeed, what with trust being such a rare commodity these days. Do people trust the anti-capitalist financial services with their bail-outs, bail-ins, product "mis-selling" (aka fraud and deception), malfunctioning ATMs, faulty POS devices? Or do they trust what a bunch of people e-mailing them are saying? Maybe it would be the other way around in the past, after all, the corporate guys must know their stuff; they're accredited, rich and successful, right? Wrong, it turns out that the sequence is that you get rich first, then you buy political influence with your riches, then you get accredited, then you get your successful financial service. And richer. I always wondered how these new firms rarely show up on the marketplace, but when they do, they're everywhere in the commercial landscape before you're aware they're new. Shame on me for not being cynical enough of that pattern. It's a phenomena that the world has never experienced before. Well, this world, this culture. I'd like to think that we're performing a kind of progressive regression: new concept aids return to old values. Progressivism enables conservatism. I always thought that "liberals vs conservatives" thing was BS, even before Chris Rock said it ;D |