..."For myself, I am beginning to get the hang of how you obtain the virtual currency - it is spending it which is the bigger problem. I already had a Bitcoin wallet on my phone, which meant using the ATM at the conference was relatively simple. I showed the machine the barcode which is the public address of my wallet, and once I'd inserted a £10 note into the slot, it popped up as roughly 0.2 Bitcoin on the phone screen within seconds.
In all I had 0.7 Bitcoin - worth about £43 at Tuesday's exchange rate.
And by this time I was hungry. Sadly, nowhere nearby seemed to take Bitcoin in exchange for food. Evangelists for the crypto currency say it's flexible, durable, secure and transportable. Now all they need to do is make sure it's useable."...
I mean seriously, what's the matter with all you 'new wave' corporate types ?
Yes. You bring new fiat money and increase public interest in Bitcoin by developing expensive ATM technologies for the masses, but neglect to sell slices of hot Pizza to members of the hungry media ! This is basic Bitcoin economics - lol
so very true,
which is why a few of us have been doing the 'flashmob' of informing customer services of
http://just-eat.co.uk also the guys behind (at the time named ) walletbit was supposedly speaking to their HQ aswell as other payment services in europe contacting the Euro HQ's..
one success in the US was foodler. but getting Just-eat.co.uk would be a great start to bitcoin UK mainstreaming efforts.
the only issues with the UK are:
'Faster Payments' makes wire transfers free and instant
lack of easy, free/cheap bitcoin to pound exchanges for high yield merchants.
plus other smaller counter arguments.
one other thing to highlight about the UK is that the main talent of the community in the UK seem to be veering off towards 'feathercoin' projects. which came to light, during a discussion that most european developers seem to be veering off towards litecoin.
im not sure what the future might hold, but with bitcoins dollar dominance, havings something like feathercoin attached to UK Pound, and Litecoin attached to the Euro. might be something that becomes more apparent in the future.
