Many brick-and-mortar shops don't accept CC at all (in UK) due to high fees (they do accept debit cards tho), or have a minimum purchase amounts set for cc payments. So I don't think it would be any sort of illegal 'discrimination'.

Either way, you can just do it as "discount for paying BTC", not as an extra charge for using CC. Like the Newegg and others did.

As for Overstock, $3m sales in bitcoin is actually pretty decent result if you ask me. Their predictions were just too optimistic, that's another story.

I think bitcoin discounts are just a matter of time. So far all the (large) businesses could get all the love from the community just by mere fact they started to accept bitcoin, they'll soon realise that in a long run - that's simply not enough.

Why? Likely for the same reasons Mozilla removed bitcoin donation button. It distracted page viewers resulting in less donations.

https://fundraising.mozilla.org/bitcoin-donations-to-mozilla-17-days-in/

I don't believe they would bother to play with BTC market manipulation. But the truth is, if they gave a green light to cryptos and created friendly regulations, the market cap could easily increase ten-fold.

The Ruble is going down due to the sanctions, so obviously it weakens compared with any currency.

What kind of revolution are you hoping for? You want to see their government replaced by "US approved" oligarch? How would that benefit the average Russian?

OK, so now tell me how do I get proper receipt (for tax purpose) from TOR when I send donations without submitting any details?

Wikimedia's not TOR's donation option is done properly. You want a tax deduction, you get the receipt hassle free. You want to stay anonymous, just type "John Doe", it's not that hard, is it?

You can find my BTC address in my profile, but no need to tip me. Glad you find it useful.

That's a great news. But if it's true why they haven't updated the fee schedule on their website?
When you google "xapo fees" you get this:

http://support.xapo.com/95219-What-fees-are-associated-with-the-Xapo-Debit-Card

Did they waived the fees only for the first customers, who complained to be mis-leaded?

Why not? What does he/she have to lose by accepting bitcoin?

I won't be buying anything anytime soon, as currently I've got loads of other expenses, but I like the website and the prices seem pretty reasonable (not sure what are the delivery costs).

Accepting bitcoin itself won't instantly drive a masses of new buyers. But it can work out quite good if you create a dedicated thread in a marketplace section (regularly updated with new items, discounts etc) + be active on reddit.

Another thing - offer small discount for paying with BTC. Just share your lower fees savings with the customers, that always leaves a good impression. And participate in events such as Bitcoin Black Friday.

Good luck!

Lol, there's more. Here's the Turkish edition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdJMmqGVGLM

Conclusion: Jeopardy producers are bitcoiners for sure 

It's not a first time. They've done it before in December 2013:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFnCkxc8tCo

Speaking for myself, I never got excited about the Good Wife episode, as I've never seen any of GW episode. And have likely heard of GW because it was mentioned on bitcoin forum, not the other way around.

It's not that big of a news (meaningless compared to Overstock, Dell, PayPal news), but afaik it's the first BTC reference in the multi-million production, so just another 'milestone' crossed. That's all.

I don't think it would be that difficult to get BBT to mention bitcoin, but it surely will be costly.
Notice they've got shitload of product placements in their series.

Works OK for me on Opera, Chrome and FF.

I do get similar issue from time to time but refreshing always does the trick.

Why? It's way better to use separate address for each customer. If you have 2 people buying the same amount of gold on the same day, there could be a confusion which of them paid and which one didn't.

Unless he sends first.


I see the OP took the advise and created a thread in correct section:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=894375.msg9846184#msg9846184

Keeping cold wallet with other important papers is useless if it's encrypted. And if it's not, it's very risky (burglars etc).

There are always some traditional ways like notary or bank deposit box. But I wonder if it's possible to create some sort of decentralised contract, ie that sends specific email to the relevant person, when there's no activity on particular address for 6 months or year...


Anyway, thanks for bringing up this subject, it's worth discussion. I reckon that in 20-30 years there will be quite significant amount of bitcoins lost because of deaths, unless there are some easy solutions available.

No such transaction on the Blockchain, are you synced?

I noticed they're always slower in replying when implementing new features (BlackJack in this case?), maybe that was the issue here.

Well, to be perfectly fair to BitPay, they also offered their "Warm regards" - surely worth more than lousy $1000 from Coinbase or others.

It all depends what market you operate in.

If you're in highly competitive low-margin retail sector (selling exactly same goods as your competitors) sharing your savings with customers could give you a crucial advantage.

But if you're an artist, selling your paintings with large profit margin, giving 1-2% discount wouldn't matter that much. But then again, there's also the PR factor, if you choose to share, you'll be perceived as more genuine and honest merchant and you surely would get more sympathy from bitcoiners.

As for your oil price drop examples. I think the most important reason for that is what goose20 wrote:

 
Also, some businesses (such as UPS/FedEx) simply cannot be too flexible with their pricing. Adjusting prices every week or two would be seen as very unstable and unpredictable by their partners. I'm sure when the opposite happens (oil price goes up) they won't rush with increasing their charges.