I am pretty confident we are the new wealthy elite, gentlemen.

[Biomech]

and I am pretty confident we are the old dying elite, whose best times have passed

Speak for yourself! I haven't hit 50 yet!

[Cryddit]

I will soon have a premium hotel. How to make as many as possible bitcoin transactions out of it?

- Give 5-10% off of advance room reservations when paying bitcoin (wpb)?
- Give 20% off of restaurant bill if it's over $100 per person wpb?
- QR-code room service menus with one click ordering?
- In bars, also direct ordering from tables wbp?
- All staff wears/carries QR-codes for tipping?

You could wrap up speed and convenience in a way that people will notice.  You could have restaurant, bar, or room service menus with scancodes.  Your customer can just scan the code and touch the 'confirm payment' button that appears on his phone, to order and pay for an item in one step.  Done.  No waiting for waitstaff, no need to call roomservice, no mistranscribed orders, no messing about with the bill, etc. 

Likewise any 'extras' that the hotel might provide as convenience services, such as hair salon or spa appointments, dry cleaning or laundry, conference rooms, A/V equipment, stay extensions, and the thousand other things in your hotel service directory -- Scan once, and done. 

I can even picture the hotel pushing the 'convenience payment' for services outside of the hotel itself; for example cut a deal with a cab company that allows them to put some predefined scancodes into your hotel's service directory.  Then, if someone wants a cab to the airport/downtown, they can pay for it the same way they pay for things in the hotel itself, and it's absolutely seamless as far as the customer is concerned. 

Or, you know, they could use that old-fashioned phone number thing, go through the hassle of talking to a human, then go through later hassle of getting out their wallet and paying for the ride in a separate step, etc....  that's in the service directory too, but it's a pain in the ass by comparison, right?

[keithers]

I will soon have a premium hotel. How to make as many as possible bitcoin transactions out of it?

- Give 5-10% off of advance room reservations when paying bitcoin (wpb)?
- Give 20% off of restaurant bill if it's over $100 per person wpb?
- QR-code room service menus with one click ordering?
- In bars, also direct ordering from tables wbp?
- All staff wears/carries QR-codes for tipping?
-

Cool if I can be responsible for multimillion$ increase in bitcoin market cap
 

Wow, this is amazing. Seeing as you have good reputation, I'm willing to help out with anything I can.
Student with a lot of time on his hands and fluent in 4 languages.

4 languages? Impressive!

There was a joke once circulating around:

What do you call a person that speaks two languages?  Bilingual.

What do you call a person that speaks three languages?  Trilingual.

What do you call a person that only speaks one language?  American. 

I, unfortunately, fall into the last category.  I guess we feel like we can get by with English in most of the world.  Also, I think start teaching foreign languages too late in our schools.  Most students only start taking another language in high-school but studies have shown that it is much easier for very young children to pick up other languages.  Oh well.  I am thankful for Google translate.

For Americans, maybe English and Ebonics count as bilingual?

[keithers]

I will soon have a premium hotel. How to make as many as possible bitcoin transactions out of it?

- Give 5-10% off of advance room reservations when paying bitcoin (wpb)?
- Give 20% off of restaurant bill if it's over $100 per person wpb?
- QR-code room service menus with one click ordering?
- In bars, also direct ordering from tables wbp?
- All staff wears/carries QR-codes for tipping?
-

Cool if I can be responsible for multimillion$ increase in bitcoin market cap
 

Wow, this is amazing. Seeing as you have good reputation, I'm willing to help out with anything I can.
Student with a lot of time on his hands and fluent in 4 languages.

Thanks! You have any experience in website design?

BitChick: In Europe, speaking 4-6 languages is commonplace, and I presume Acidyo is from here also

Together, me and my wife speak Finnish, English, Swedish, German, French, Russian, Estonian and Spanish. In decreasing order of fluency

Wow this is really impressive

[bryant.coleman]

(native) German, English and some Slovakian here - and of course, always open for opportunities to work or support in Bitcoinbusinesses

hmmm... I am fluent in English and two local languages, and I can read the Cyrillic alphabet. Should have taught myself either German or French long ago.  Now it is too late to learn any additional language.

[Swordsoffreedom]

(native) German, English and some Slovakian here - and of course, always open for opportunities to work or support in Bitcoinbusinesses

hmmm... I am fluent in English and two local languages, and I can read the Cyrillic alphabet. Should have taught myself either German or French long ago.  Now it is too late to learn any additional language.

Well as long as your alive you can learn, that or watch some drama or TV series with subtitles and learn the slow way

[bryant.coleman]

Well as long as your alive you can learn, that or watch some drama or TV series with subtitles and learn the slow way

Well... if I devote 30 minutes to learning a new language every day, by watching the YouTube tutorials, how much time it will take me to master the language fully? I am referring to a world language, such as French, German or Russian.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Well as long as your alive you can learn, that or watch some drama or TV series with subtitles and learn the slow way

Well... if I devote 30 minutes to learning a new language every day, by watching the YouTube tutorials, how much time it will take me to master the language fully? I am referring to a world language, such as French, German or Russian.

Well spending 30 minutes of your time to watch a language tutorial may be faster than watching some television series with English Subtitles
But you can learn the connotations and the subtexts while learning the main language through dramas and television shows
French I guess reading Le Petit Prince and learning from Children Stories would help
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mVBaKd45jk
German and Russian never tried myself although
Guess you can find stories as well bit slower but in exchange more entertaining
That or find your favorite series and try to find the subtitles in English and rewatch in German Russian or French
Or music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1lrV4Rs7QM

[Biomech]

I will soon have a premium hotel. How to make as many as possible bitcoin transactions out of it?

- Give 5-10% off of advance room reservations when paying bitcoin (wpb)?
- Give 20% off of restaurant bill if it's over $100 per person wpb?
- QR-code room service menus with one click ordering?
- In bars, also direct ordering from tables wbp?
- All staff wears/carries QR-codes for tipping?
-

Cool if I can be responsible for multimillion$ increase in bitcoin market cap
 

Wow, this is amazing. Seeing as you have good reputation, I'm willing to help out with anything I can.
Student with a lot of time on his hands and fluent in 4 languages.

4 languages? Impressive!

There was a joke once circulating around:

What do you call a person that speaks two languages?  Bilingual.

What do you call a person that speaks three languages?  Trilingual.

What do you call a person that only speaks one language?  American. 

I, unfortunately, fall into the last category.  I guess we feel like we can get by with English in most of the world.  Also, I think start teaching foreign languages too late in our schools.  Most students only start taking another language in high-school but studies have shown that it is much easier for very young children to pick up other languages.  Oh well.  I am thankful for Google translate.

For Americans, maybe English and Ebonics count as bilingual?

Nah. Ebonics "speakers" can't even understand each other.

[yenom]

From the article http://bitcoinexaminer.org/bitcoin-castle-born-estonia/ last paragraph:

While several members of the Bitcoin community are praising the project, several others are still reticent mainly because of the presence of Risto Pietila, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur with a very controversial past.

Anyone know what the author of the article is referring to here?

[Bit_Happy]

From the article http://bitcoinexaminer.org/bitcoin-castle-born-estonia/ last paragraph:

While several members of the Bitcoin community are praising the project, several others are still reticent mainly because of the presence of Risto Pietila, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur with a very controversial past.

Anyone know what the author of the article is referring to here?

A quick search doesn't find anything really bad:
Risto Pietilä?
Silverbank
The Chairman of the Supervisory Board and founder of the company is Risto Pietilä. He is an entrepreneur with 12 years of experience in growth companies. He started the investment silver industry in Finland in 2006. His nick in Bitcointalk forum is rpietila.
https://www.silverbank.net/index.php/en/meista

[Erdogan]

From the article http://bitcoinexaminer.org/bitcoin-castle-born-estonia/ last paragraph:

While several members of the Bitcoin community are praising the project, several others are still reticent mainly because of the presence of Risto Pietila, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur with a very controversial past.

Anyone know what the author of the article is referring to here?

He sometimes take a walk on the wild side.

[rpietila]

From the article http://bitcoinexaminer.org/bitcoin-castle-born-estonia/ last paragraph:

While several members of the Bitcoin community are praising the project, several others are still reticent mainly because of the presence of Risto Pietila, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur with a very controversial past.

Anyone know what the author of the article is referring to here?

He sometimes take a walk on the wild side.

A cash prize to the one who finds anything more controversial from my past than the screencap with silver pot in my head (taken from our very own commercial video, which unfortunately went viral 4 years later than scheduled ).

[wachtwoord]

From the article http://bitcoinexaminer.org/bitcoin-castle-born-estonia/ last paragraph:

While several members of the Bitcoin community are praising the project, several others are still reticent mainly because of the presence of Risto Pietila, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur with a very controversial past.

Anyone know what the author of the article is referring to here?

He sometimes take a walk on the wild side.

A cash prize to the one who finds anything more controversial from my past than the screencap with silver pot in my head (taken from our very own commercial video, which unfortunately went viral 4 years later than scheduled ).

Dressing up for easter http://www.kaleva.fi/uutiset/galleriat/virpojat-liikkeella/7812/998333/

[rpietila]

Dressing up for easter http://www.kaleva.fi/uutiset/galleriat/virpojat-liikkeella/7812/998333/

Hahaha what a shame that at least 24 individuals claim the same "firstname,lastname"...

Although it seems that I am among the top 5% of them in Internet popularity

[bryant.coleman]

A cash prize to the one who finds anything more controversial from my past than the screencap with silver pot in my head (taken from our very own commercial video, which unfortunately went viral 4 years later than scheduled ).

lol... actually it was quite funny....



http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2011041513549051_uu.shtml

Erikoinen yritys järjestää seksibileitä eikä maksa työntekijöilleen palkkaa.

 

[Bit_Happy]

A cash prize to the one who finds anything more controversial from my past than the screencap with silver pot in my head (taken from our very own commercial video, which unfortunately went viral 4 years later than scheduled ).

lol... actually it was quite funny....



http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2011041513549051_uu.shtml

Erikoinen yritys järjestää seksibileitä eikä maksa työntekijöilleen palkkaa.

 

He seems to have passed the background check required for operating a Bitcoin mansion.  

[Arriemoller]

Sex parties? Tell me more.

[bryant.coleman]

Sex parties? Tell me more.

Ask rpietila himself. I am not good in Finnish and I can't properly translate that article even using the Google translator.

[Lauda]

From the article http://bitcoinexaminer.org/bitcoin-castle-born-estonia/ last paragraph:

While several members of the Bitcoin community are praising the project, several others are still reticent mainly because of the presence of Risto Pietila, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur with a very controversial past.

Anyone know what the author of the article is referring to here?

He sometimes take a walk on the wild side.

A cash prize to the one who finds anything more controversial from my past than the screencap with silver pot in my head (taken from our very own commercial video, which unfortunately went viral 4 years later than scheduled ).

I'd like to see that as well. What do people have against you mister?