Does your credit score absolutely suck?  Did you purchase bitcoins previously and end up not having the funds in your account to pay for it?

Just some questions that comes to mind trying to reason why this may have happened.

I love CoinBase and how it is making it really easy for not only users to buy bitcoins instantly, but also its excellent merchant features.  I was thinking about the following feature idea and wanted to see if you guys thought this would be possible or even desirable.

What if CoinBase allowed the possibility for merchants to allow people who do not know what Bitcoin is, or has zero interest in buying bitcoin in order to purchase a merchants product - to have the ability for that customer to input their banking information instead of sending bitcoin.

So instead of having a buy it now with BTC button, have a pay with CC or ACH button.  The merchant would obviously have to wait 3 or so days to get their BTC but it would allow a merchant to widen their customer base and still obtain bitcoins for their goods and services in one central location.

The obvious issues that could arise is fraud, or for some types of services not being able to issue the product until the payment has cleared, however I can see some situations where this could not be a problem.

Another way to mitigate the above issues is to force users to register with CoinBase and go through the verification process like they are already doing.

Thoughts?

Can you provide links?

Lol, yea i have seen his youtube videos.  The kid has some creativity.

If only I had the time and imagination to turn it into a full story.  Aspiring writers out there, get at it!

Lol. I can imagine something similar to The Wire.

A large Bitcoin holder buys up a bunch of homes.  Turns them in to stash houses, hires a gang of youngsters and gives them each burner phones as well as a bitcoin address.  The gang peddles drugs and hands over the loot to a cleaner who launders the money through bitcoin.  The gang gets payed weekly through their bitcoin address.

Sounds like a good cypherpunk book.

To Ken or the new PR guy:

I was wondering if you could provide how much $ you guys have received through pre-orders already.  I am attemting to gather rough estimates on the monthly income of popular bitcoin merchants in this thread here.  Any insight would be wonderful.

Can you provide information on the timeframe of this figure?  I am trying to estimate the bitcoins merchant/marketplaces average monthly sales in this thread

I am trying to collect as much data as possible to get a rough idea how much money is being spent in bitcoins market place.  I am intersted in doing this as a result of many claims that Silk Road is the "driving marketplace of bitcoin" - which I don't think is particularly true.  If you have any links, or information about the below companies please share, I will keep it updated as more information comes in.  If you have any other suggestions on other bitcoin related merchants let me know.

BitPay ~$5 million/month
CoinBase ~15 million/month *February buy and sales total | *email
BitcoinStore Lifetime sales: $662,993 | $662,993/7(?) months = $94,713/month
BitMit ?
CoinGig ~$5,000/month
Avalon 8 million in chip orders? *from comments here on bitcointalk, looking for links
Butterfly Labs ?
KnC owner refuses to answer
AsicMiner ~$6,711,800 (unknown time frame) | Blade Sales Income: 29,594.75BTC + USB Sales Income: 37,524.00BTC
Satoshi Dice ?
BTCQuick ~ $320,721.23/month

The only data I can find on Silk Roads annual sales is roughly $22 Million a year, i.e. ~$1.8 million/month so BitPay alone technically processes more than Silk Road alone.

lol, i bet so as well.

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Are Cubans really that good, or are they just sought after because of the embargo in the states?

I remember the first cigar I ever had was a Cuban on a cruise..ended up puking over the railing  

This is proof mods don't give 2 shits about this forum.

Mabsark will be transferring 250 shares of ActiveMining to me (bitfunder: smswanso) once tendered by Ken as per a trade.  

Just a PSA  

Confirmed, AUCTION CLOSED

And proof for posterity's sake

still can't beat the highest bid of 0.0021 im offering ;P

Here is a chance to put your money where your mouth is

Starting at 0.002/share https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=265600.msg2843636#msg2843636

Why do you say that?  I don't see why it would go much lower than innitial IPO price.  Why would someone trade at a loss?

Only have 150 shares mate.  But ill do a buy it now 150 shares @ 0.01 = 1.5 BTC