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Richard Branson has now endorsed Bitcoin, it is very likely he's going huge into Bitcoins this will skyrocket the price further as another whale dives into the Digital Ocean.

Also Virgin Galactic plans to officially accept Bitcoin for space-travel! This is fantastic news and all the best for Bitcoin, truly the currency of the future there is no going back   :)

Now we can claim (literally) Bitcoin is going to da Moon ;D

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/22/5133362/richard-branson-endorses-bitcoin-says-virgin-galactic-will-accept-the

This is just a pr stunt, and will probably not move the price that much.

Even if it moves the price a bit, that would be great.  But the important thing to note here is that one of the wealthiest and well known people in the world, Sir Richard Branson, wants to part of BTC and believes in its future.  Get a few more powerful people to join, and the rest will come!

Depends on if the story is picked up and run with by major news companies ala BBC.

Sir Richard Branson has his fingers in many pies with Virgin, including Virgin Bank. It could be seen to regular folk that this is something worth looking at with him being a rather successful entrepreneur!

Imagine if he decided to accept Bitcoins for Virgin Airlines? Or used Virgin Bank to help with a bitcoin exchange. Sure its highly doubtful, but many others could be thinking the same things.

Article & Video:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101220710

It's good for UK bitcoin users - Virgin own a bank

http://www.virginmoney.com/worldwide/

When the CEO of your bank owns bitcoins, it would be a bit hypocritical if they interfere with your trading in them

you have no idea of the enormity of this announcement.

what politician is now going to say "you cannot have Bitcoin"?

He didn't say that, did you hear him? He didn't even want to speculate that much. Plus he even said he is converting it to cash on the spot, if it is his cash we still don't know.

any PR is good PR, but even if his purchases don't help push bitcoin up in the short-term, him getting on board brings ALOT of attention from the big guys who are now going to want to invest in bitcoin. So this helps solidify bitcoin's position further and also reduces the likely hood of governments "banning" bitcoin, since Governments worship celebrity and big shots endorsements.

And don't forget the fact a major corporation Virgin Galactic, a space travel corporation (and Virgin itself is one of the largest corporations in the world) plans to accept Bitcoin is a huge vote of confidence for the whole "Bitcoin as a currency" argument.

Branson's personal blog:
 

http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/bitcoins-in-space

So Bitcoin already going into Space now!

Next stop, DA MOON!
 ;D

Did we need a vote of confidence as a currency? I am pretty sure the government and most places saw we are a currency. If this was 2012 or 2011, I be excite, today, I am just not seeing it taking us anywhere.

Now if he said, I am keeping the bitcoins that we get, then I would think differently. Just him saying that he is using bitcoin is kinda like him trying to ride the train. He is a PR stunt guy, that is how he gets people excited about his projects. The space travel had not been in the news for a while.

First off if that is his personal blog that is just one big ad LMAO So anything on that blog I wouldn't taken too seriously.

It will definitely help. He actually recommends people investing in it if they have money to invest.

Not when he was asked in the news piece he said something along the lines "I will tell you off the record". Not giving me the sense he is 100% into bitcoins I would say this would give him about 60%.

does anyone hear seriously believe that he has not kept some Bitcoin for himself given his actions?

he's probably in the middle of trying to accumulate and doesn't want to drive the price too high.

Or perhaps he just wanted to keep his personal investment decisions private?  I think it fun news and the meme, "to the moon", certainly gets a nice boost with this.   ;)

He owns some. How many billionaires is that now? Branson, Palihapitiya, Novogratz...?

Hey if it was in my price range I be signing up to go to the moon LMAO

You and me both.   ;D

Well at least to the Kármán line.

I believe he definitely has.  He's a smart man and knows a good thing when he sees it.

Regardless if he does or not, this PR can only help out BTC.  I don't see how it can bring any negative attention.

Bitcoin to the moon, literally. Well actually will need Golden Spike to accept bit coin for that to really happen. At current rates Satoshi could actually afford it! 

There's that Mellon kid... that probably means something.

“I have invested in some bitcoins myself and find it fascinating how a whole new global currency has been created,” Branson said. “For people who can afford to invest a little in bitcoins, it’s worth looking into.” - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/22/virgin-galactic-bitcoin-space-flights-payment

O M F G

You are all missing the REAL news here...

From the blog:
"One future astronaut, a female flight attendant from Hawaii, has already purchased her Virgin Galactic ticket using bitcoins"

Smoothie is a woman!!!  ;D



Come on how many early adopters from HI can there be?  Biggest troll on bitcointalk is a female flight attendant...  honestly it makes a strange kind of sense.

Those are the News which keeps bitcoins going up !
Well, up to the moon ? ???
I would appreciate this. ;D

I lulzed LMAO

I'd say that's the biggest impact. He's a well respected all-rounder.

Richard Branson is also on the board of Square Payments, which make credit card readers for small businesses using a cellphone.  And according to this thread on Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1r1gu5/starbucks_to_make_announcement_regarding_bitcoin/

they also do all the payments for Starbucks, which they are saying are going to announce taking bitcoins next week.

Remains to be seen, but if Starbucks announces that they are taking bitcoins, I don't even know what will happen to the price.

This is what I have learned from this thread:

1) Richard Branson owns some bitcoins

2) Richard Branson thinks bitcoins are cool

3) Richard Branson says people should consider investing in bitcoin if they can

4) Richard Branson is going to sell space flights "2 Da Moon" with bitcoin


... FUCK

Ok, I guess now we need the obligatory step 5:

5) motherfucking PROFIT

Bitcoin "the first intergalactic currency"! Coming to a planet near you!





All belong to us

LOL!

Wow now even speculation of who I am even after I've made it clear as day on this forum is just super funny.

LOL! LAWL mega LAWL!  ;D ;D ;D

I want to see a full bitcoin node with blockchain in space. Surely it would not be difficult to install the client software on a satellite.

This sounds like a job for Branson... a functioning validating bitcoin node in outer space would be a great PR stunt. We gotta throw some comments on Branson's blog, maybe he'll get the idea... lol.

bringing the phrase too da moon to a whole nother level

I believe a ticket to the moon via Virgin starts at about $250K, so easily affordable by a Bitcoin early adopter.

Moon isn't 100 or so km away. I think the ticket you get with 250k is just for some very low earth orbit or something

Actually, the real news here is that a flight attendant spent the equivalent of 250,000 USD on a space flight. I'm not sure which is more newsworthy, that she's obviously gotten rather wealthy on Bitcoin, or that she's apparently still working...

 Considering the sums involved, accepting Bitcoin makes perfect sense for Virgin Galactic. You're not exactly going to be paying that with your credit card in most cases.

I wonder what international wire fees for that sum would come to, as well...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=167662

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Time to buy more coins! This son of a bitch is on board spaceship one!  :o :o :o

i bet richard been lurking about this forum for a while now. judging by the video he comes across as rather savvy in bitcoin.

TO DA LOW EARTH ORBIT THEN!!!! AND DEN TO DA MOON!!!