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What company should take btc?

For me: I'd like Virgin airlines (or anything richard branson tbh) or UBER!

Morrisons maybe? Would love to do my food shopping with BTC :D

That could be huge if walmart took btc.

But then they have issues like safeguarding their wallets..

Any online shopping website like sainsburys too!

I think Seamless or Grubhub would be no brainers to accept BTC, especially since they're prevalent in the urban cities where most Bitcoiners reside.

That would make me and my tummy very happy.

Any company with online payment should take it. Then it can be accepted in shops.

i don't know if i can call it a company but if something like amazon starts accepting bitcoin as an alternative for payment that would be Huge.

I want every company to accept bitcoin.


I'm really surprised Branson hasn't started accepting bitcioin by all his companies and ventures. He's accepting it for Virgin Galactic so why not everything else? He seems to be a fan of bitcoin and I believe he has invested in some bitcoin start ups so it would make sense for him to do so. I think getting someone like Branson as an active and enthusiastic spokesman for bitcoin will do great for adoption.

Wallmart

Amazon or ebay... i can't really imagine if that will ever become a reality some day and i mean it could be really big. And since they already saved a lot on the fees instead of using credit card, people paying in bitcoin should get incentive in paying for lower price.

All internet companies would be a good start.

maybe the fast food restaurant  8) like McD, KFC,etc or supermarket

If bitcoin is getting known world wide , every company will use it.
Beside the low fee, the transaction process is quite fast

Any company selling digital product or service.
of course, in ideal scenario, all ''big'' internet names like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple... should accept bitcoin but I'm doubtful that this will happen.
Any way, as more and more online companies accepting bitcopin, we are more and more close to our long term goal. to become mainstream.

i'd like to see google or mcdoanlds
that two company is very famous in the world
so if they are accepting bitcoin, this will be a good news :)

Google and Microsoft shall start accepting it and may be apple too :D

vat19.com! thinkgeek.com! They sell the most awesome items i've seen.

Amazon, with a little discount when you pay with BTC  :)

Wait what?
Really?
Edit: Okay googled it and found
It is amazing  , we can fund our account with bitcoin to buy apps :D :D

Wow... How can no one here fail to bring up that Sir Richard Branson does indeed take btc for Virgin Intergalactic. I had to look at the date on this thread 5 times before I realized that most of you clearly know nothing about Bitcoin...


EDIT.. Mr Tea knows about Bitcoin!

 ;)

Aye, Morrisons, Asda, Tesco's ...aye. All of them money grabbin' shits. That would make my life so much easier! I would even get 10% staff discount from one of them too!

Maybe because one of us would need to have 100k in btc to spend on such an awesome thing ;)

Still.. It's not something most of you should be unaware of.
Bitcoin 101
Silk Road
Mt Gox
Blockchain
Overstock
Virgin Intergalactic
 ;D
 

Obviously Amazon! If they accept Bitcoin, it would give it the biggest validation it could possibly get. I mean that company is the world's(!!!) biggest retailer. It's not a shady company and people may re-consider their position if they previously though Bitcoin was only used for illicit purposes!

I hope rakuten is taking bitcoin soon,it is a really important company in japan and it is expanding to many others country

I agree Amazon should accept Bitcoin, but to piggyback off your comment, I'd propose an even bigger company.....

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Alibaba accepting Bitcoin would cause a tear in the time space continuum...c'mon Jack Ma you can do it!

Yeah I actually didn't know what they were about until today or so. I heard about them considering to accept BTC the other day but just shrugged it off. Turns out, they're the "Amazon of Japan"!!! That's huge!

Wow! Yeah Alibaba would be an awesome company, as well. I mean, many people don't even know it, but it's a major backbone of international and retail trades. It's the "eBay of corporations" so to say. Interesting suggestion!

That would be huge.

Not likely to happen though, not until China softens their stance on Bitcoin.

cheap air already does that for virgin.

for me it would be ebay/paypal or a major car rental company.

b2b companies should.

if a business pays his debt with bitcoin to another business which one, let's say it's the manifacturer, and manifacturer paid his debt to raw material guyz etc, then bitcoin's price should skyrocket. why? because their money on bitcoin circulating...

Business to business companies should..

Others? B2C companies are just creating sell pressure. X company accepts btc but they're selling it immediately via bitpay etc...

Also C2C would be cool too.

Utilities companies.

Paypal.

Venmo (the Paypal copy cat payment company).

By the way, the OP, Virgin Galactic accepts payments in Bitcoin...so you can literally (some day) go to near the moon and pay for it with bitcoin.

PayPal n ebay/amazon for me.. Lets see if they happens..

I would like Valve to include bitcoin on the Steam platform.

All the companies which do not accept cash, and there are more and more of them.

in terms of spreading the word of bitcoin, i would like to see mcdonalds and facebook accept it, theres a good potential for possible trending in the world.
i can allready imagine word going around and spreading from one person to another , to two more etc etc..
but when it comes to merchants profits, i believe every online seller should accept it, simply because its not that hard to setup, and it may increase their customer number a bit.

cheers

All the financial monsters sooner or later will incorporate digital currencies. The so-called capitalism is heading towards anarcho-capitalism and to be honest it is a little bit scary that transition.

I hope that from the major internet companies facebook will be the first player to play with bitcoins on the market with friend to friend payments.

I would love to see Steam taking it officially but Gave is too dumb, so im stuck with Steam gifts.

amazon should be great but they won't in the short term

For me it would be, Amazon, Walmart, Alibaba , Well known fastfood restaurants like Mcdonalds and KFC.
And other famous electronic companies like Samsung.

In my opinion, first who should adopt are web based companies and in about year or so when bitcoin becomes more safe and simple to use then go for average joe use it so wall mart and everyone will have to implement Bitcoin payment option. Meanwhile we should encourage use of bitcoin and grow our community.

Facebook should use it! or twitter maybe

I would like to see higher adoption among internet-based companies.
Penetration in internet-gambling still remains surprisingly low.

ebay for me since i use it alot

Yes! that seems pretty good , we first need more people and for that we need more people to accept it !
Facebook, wallmart, Apple ,Google

I cant wait to see a nice little or big BTC button that say "Buy this with BTC" in every single ebay object ever.

I personally don't know why all businesses wouldn't accept BTC these days. It doesn't hurt and is just another payment method that can attract new customers. Although it isn't like the early days where this got you a massive amount of new customers.

no specific companies.. but gas stations, fast food and grocery stores.  now that's a list to wait for..

I would say retails that sell electronics as today not many people know of crytos and an electronics only store would have the most of the ones that do.

The companies that would like to say, have all been mentioned in previous topics.

Every company that sells products on the Internet will at some point will accept BTC.

Companies those have international business

McDonald's anyone?  :D

McDonald's, Walmart, Pizza Hut, Kwik Trip, pretty all the places that require fast service.

For me , Google the internet gateway should take it so they can pay me with google adsense without a cc or bank account .

The first one for me is Western Union that will really make huge revolution in money transfer .
Or the other company that transfer money

For me it does not matter .... From Massmart to the mom and pop shop around every corner... they should ALL accept it.

What we are seeing now is HUGE companies accepting it, but they using payment processors to convert it all back to fiat. {To me.. that is not true adoption .. They just jumped on a opportunity to make some extra profit with lower fees and a new source of income}

A true adopter for me, is a company like Overstock, who incentivize the use of bitcoin with special discounts and even paying salaries in BTC... {They do not just take from it, they try to grow and improve it}

Yes the acceptance come with free exposure.... and that is great.. but how much will it really take to offer a discount on one or two really popular items, when people pay with Bitcoin? They already cash in on the lower fees... why not pay back some of that in the early stages to incentivize and increase the use of that payment method.

The smaller shops, selling bread and milk, will be a great target market.... The normal people in Greece already said, they would adopt this currency, when they can buy their daily grocceries at the shop around the corner.... and I agree... when we can fill our tank at the gas station with Bitcoin, we would be in a better position, than having the option to buy a expensive camera on eBay.  :( 

Amazon and Ebay would be a great start . Yes I know that there is purse.io which basically do the same thing but I'am speaking about direct buying . that could attract a lot of people to Bitcoin world to be honest ;D

~ Madness

I think Apple should take bitcoin payment, which will have positive influence on bitcoin. 

I think facebook should start accepting bitcoin. They can very well integrate it with their messages and allow to send quick payments to friends and family.

That would be good and would promote Bitcoin but I hope they don't fuck up our Privacy but some new shit "Facebook wallet" or whatever ... Otherwise it would defeats the purpose of Bitcoin which is being annonymus

~ Madness

I hope that MacDonald or any global fast food restaurant will start accepting Bitcoin soon. I'm not a fan of fast food but.. Most teenagers eat fast food so.. Getting Bitcoin out to teenagers will increase Bitcoin awareness.


Agree. If Facebook integrate Bitcoin in a nice way (privacy-first), I'm sure Bitcoin will have more adoption.

AS we have seen mark doing things so far , that's exactly what he will do , so it's better keeping bitcoin away from facebook

Every company operating globally should use bitcoins. Today they have massive costs to transfer money from abroad to their base country plus ripped off with credit card fees. Unfortunately there are still too few customers owing bitcoins and even fewer actually using them. For customers is still difficult to buy bitcoins and also when they do they have to pay 5-6% premium over market price

UBER, and just about any coffee shop and store that are on the streets so people will see the logo all over the place! :)

amazon, facebook, walmart, shell, bp, exxon, that would be insane.

What's bp???

Amazon, iTunes, eBay, forever21, steam :D
It will be huge for bitcoin to be mainstream.

Gabe Newell gave his opinion about integrating Bitcoin on Steam . iTunes => Apple & Apple have their ApplePay so there is no way they integrate Bitcoin . eBay & Amazon are left . (I would say that Amazon is testing Bitcoin on Twitch.tv since they bought it recently )

~ Madness

Great if Gabe will adopt bitcoin for steam, are you have link that news?
How about if apple pay accept bitcoin ? Is there possible?
Nice, because I see some book about cryptocurrency sell on amazon so I think they will accept bitcoin recently.

doubt it, all i could find was strached out maybe, but not anytime soon.

"It looks like Newell, (GabeNewellBellevue on reddit), isn’t too eager to accept Bitcoin as a form of payment on Steam. The gaming platform and online store currently only accepts traditional forms of digital payment such as credit card and PayPal. Due to Gabe’s issues such as cryptocurrencies’ volatility, Steam is unlikely to add online currencies such as Bitcoin and Litecoin as methods of payment."
(cut from ccn)
cheers

Couldn't Apple integrate bitcoin in Apple pay?

I think it is necessary, to give salaries to employees using bitcoin :)

Okay well! the more people accept it , the better

Facebook and google.

Sure, for direct advertising campaign.

Amazon and eBay ... that would be a big impact  :)

Amazon should also do it, and Aliexpress. I'm sick of using my credit card everywhere. My recent purchase on newegg was pretty smooth... and eBay sucks.. it is one of the *WORST* piece of shit software running on any CPU since the universe came into existence. They should just go out of business. We need some decent competitor to ebay.

*forgive my rant*.. but I f***ng hate ebay.

Basically I hope one day every single company will accept bitcoin. And that bitcoin will the automatic choice of payment currency. Or better... bitcoin as the sole currency that will only be accepted. Everytime when I use my credit card for payment I had that kind of uneasy feeling that somebody might be snooping on my spending pattern. At least with bitcoin, it gets harder to get to my personal information.

I'm happy if my local groceries n alcohol stores accept btc.. I don't mind the big companies not accepting it... Amazon would be nice though!