Mega update: Dotcom’s service now accepts Bitcoin, will expand into email, chat, voice, video, and mobile
Kim Dotcom knows how to stir up a storm on Twitter. On Saturday, he announced Bitcoin support for his cloud storage service and also sent out a slew of tweets suggesting Mega is going to become much more than just the successor to Megaupload.
Doctom reemphasized his company’s commitment to privacy, while also suggesting that Mega is uniquely positioned in New Zealand to safeguard user data. He also teased that Mega would expand into email, chat, voice, video, and mobile services “in the coming years.”
If you head to bitvoucher.co, you’ll see six ways to buy Mega services with Bitcoin. There are three monthly options and three yearly options (no refund or exchange for any):
Mega Pro I: 500GB of data storage and 1TB of bandwidth for 0.5184 Bitcoin per month or 5.1888 Bitcoin per year.
Mega Pro II: 2TB of data storage and 4TB bandwidth for 1.0373 Bitcoin per month or 10.3781 Bitcoin per year.
Mega Pro III: 4TB of data storage and 8TB bandwidth per month for 1.5563 Bitcoin per month or 15.5674 Bitcoin per year.
For those who don’t know, Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency, currently the most-widely used alternative to common forms of money (total market cap at over $100 million). Because it has no central issuer, it has no single authority and thus no way to lock out certain users (or countries) out of the network. Bitcoin can be used to pay for certain transactions both offline and online.
Mega supporting Bitcoin makes perfect sense. Doctom’s company wants to distance itself from governments as much as possible, and a virtually untraceable payment method is an excellent way to do so.
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http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/16/mega-update-dotcoms-service-now-accepts-bitcoin-will-expand-into-email-chat-voice-video-and-mobile/Nothing new for us. But a official Announcement from Kim, is something.
