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July 18, 2011, 09:21:12 PM Last edit: August 12, 2011, 06:45:58 PM by antares |
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Hey friends, I just came across their news page, and there's some amazing entry to see for today. Just a short story before I go on: Since I heard about the BitCoin, I was thinking that this currency was perfect for one-click hosters. It provides a decent anonymity, it is easy to obtain, and people who buy vpn-accounts to download anonymously from those hosters would sure as hell buy premium accounts using btc. So I went on 2 weeks ago, asking the staff of ul.to whether they could consider payments via bitcoin, and or if they could consider affiliate payouts via bitcoins. Today it really happened(I hope I wasn't the only one suggesting the BTC) Ok, so heres the real news: Since rapidshare fagged out all their uploaders by removing their affiliate program and introducing a pricing model that seems at best shiny, uploaded.to has become the new #1 one-click hoster in the german area, one of the leading one-click hosters in europe and the US. Today they featured a news entry on their site, stating that they would start accepting bitcoins from today(however, they still haven't implemented the thing in their premium payment plan, but there are some features defect in their affiliate backend, so I guess they are sitting on that just right now). Uploaded.to, a top industry company in filesharing does currently acquire about 50-70 thousand new customers every month, as well as they have over 2 million existing customers. They can provide a decent trading volume in Bitcoins, thus making the bitcoin more stable(because they offer a volume that could be higher than the current coin creation rate) and provide some incent for other one-click hosting corporations to join in with bitcoins. Heres the links: News-Entry: click meSign-Up Link: please note that this is a ref link
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July 18, 2011, 10:28:07 PM |
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Seems pretty cool You should haev posted in the main forum to get more responses.
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antares (OP)
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July 18, 2011, 10:39:59 PM |
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well, it seemed to be the best place here, as the "Market Discussion", although being described as "place to discuss sites accepting BTC" seems to be the wrong place, as almost any site promoted there is just either spam or a fraudulent lottery scheme. But since a supporting corporation with that kinds of trade volumes is a whole new global player, I figured it would suit this section as well
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July 18, 2011, 11:28:57 PM |
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wow... great break breakthrough this could make others consider start accepting bitcoin payments aswell.
well done.
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antares (OP)
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July 18, 2011, 11:38:42 PM |
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well, I don't want to claim to be the sole responsible for this, however I consider my mail to them helped. Let's see if some filesonic/fileserve see a reason to follow uploaded's lead :-)
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July 19, 2011, 12:16:19 AM |
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as the first file hosting service worldwide, to accept bitcoins. This is not true. Wuala is accepting bitcoins for a while now. But these are great news. Lots of people use uploaded.to EDIT: OK, it may be true for 1 click hosters. Wuala has more of a Dropbox/Sugargync approach.
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July 19, 2011, 05:44:46 PM |
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Cant see it in the news
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July 20, 2011, 11:33:20 AM |
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Cant see it in the news
Neither can I.
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July 20, 2011, 01:30:35 PM |
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Bitcoins - Because we should not pay to use our money
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July 23, 2011, 12:32:53 PM |
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I'd say this is a pretty good achievement. They're a medium to big sized player in the filehosting market.
Persuade filesonic, filefactory, megaupload/rapidshare to accept BTC and you will start seeing mass adaption of bitcoins just for this one market
The internet is full of people who want to spend pocket change for download credits but have no means to do so (PayPal doesn't let them, no credit card, etc)
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July 23, 2011, 12:57:48 PM |
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Wonderful news! You should post this in the main forum ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif) And i quote Jack of diamonds, being able to spend by using bitcoin is very nice, much much simpler than having to use a credit card or paypal or what else
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July 23, 2011, 01:56:12 PM |
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The internet is full of people who want to spend pocket change for download credits but have no means to do so (PayPal doesn't let them, no credit card, etc)
Also full of people who have credit cards, but don't want to use them to pay for pirated material, which people often upload to 1-click hosters. Bitcoin will help them stay anonymous while enjoying premium service.
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July 27, 2011, 11:17:29 AM |
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I am still waiting for a file host who PAYS uploaders in bitcoins. I think that would pump up the pir8 scene 10X.
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July 27, 2011, 01:08:04 PM |
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I would be happier to see Amazon accepting Bitcoins instead of a platform for stolen goods. Not good for Bitcoin reputation... makes Bitcoin look shady and unattractive for "real" companies.
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July 27, 2011, 03:07:32 PM |
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That's good for two things: #Every company joining the BTC train is good for us #Warez1337s haz n0ledg3 ab0ut interwebz and likes BTC I would be happier to see Amazon accepting Bitcoins instead of a platform for stolen goods. Not good for Bitcoin reputation... makes Bitcoin look shady and unattractive for "real" companies.
Porn-site reselling doesn't make BTC look shady then?
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July 27, 2011, 03:59:52 PM |
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Porn-site reselling doesn't make BTC look shady then?
I'm a single person and not a big warez reseller company like ul.to. I offer to sign you up at realitykings.com directly, the porn producers themself will get the money and not some stupid kiddies for "their" uploads or a warez company. ul.to will sure give Bitcoins a push(in the german speaking part of europe) i'm just saying i would prefer to see more clean business companies.
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July 27, 2011, 04:09:12 PM |
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I think that would pump up the pir8 scene 10X.
agreed. a pir8 surge would be good for bitcoin values (and more importantly imho, bitcoin liquidity). +more 'clean' businesses.. we could do with both ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
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July 27, 2011, 04:16:42 PM |
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I would be happier to see Amazon accepting Bitcoins instead of a platform for stolen goods. Not good for Bitcoin reputation... makes Bitcoin look shady and unattractive for "real" companies.
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July 28, 2011, 03:44:40 AM |
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![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) about time , On demand data transfer is a perfect product for the BTC economy.
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antares (OP)
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August 12, 2011, 06:44:35 PM |
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Just an update guys Uploaded has added the Feature to their page as of today. I tested paying for a one month premium and it works fine!
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