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November 05, 2013, 09:40:26 AM
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Subway near Moscow offers 10% off if you pay with Bitcoin.

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November 05, 2013, 10:34:53 AM
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wow Subway? Surprised by that one, I thought big companies would have to be dragged kicking and screaming into accepting Bitcoins.
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November 05, 2013, 11:24:37 AM
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Subway is a franchise, every Subway is its own buisnes with a licensing contract.

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November 05, 2013, 11:39:40 AM
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Hope more company's will see the bright future of bitcoin.

This is really good news, even though it's only small and local, if more people pick this up it will mean a wider adoption of bitcoin !
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November 06, 2013, 04:29:05 AM
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Given Russia has had not one but two currency crises in the last 20 years, this makes eminent sense

Unstable nations with poor track records of managing inflation are the core use case for BTC after all

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November 06, 2013, 11:01:19 AM
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If my local subway accepted bitcoin.....

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November 06, 2013, 04:36:09 PM
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"BTC 0.01953 Footlongs!" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

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November 06, 2013, 04:40:22 PM
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There is no subway near Moscow, lol

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November 06, 2013, 06:27:38 PM
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Even if this isn't real, discounts are the way to go for bitcoin!!
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November 06, 2013, 10:10:53 PM
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There is no subway near Moscow, lol

You sure of that?

http://www.subway.ru/restaurants/central/moscow/

ETA: In case you can't read the Cyrillic alphabet - Mocквa is Cyrillic for Moskva, which is the Russian name for Moscow.
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November 06, 2013, 10:56:16 PM
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"BTC 0.001953 Footlongs!" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

"Footlongs now only 1.95 nBTC!"

People will change denominations. Houses will likely not be referenced in price as 22BTC, more like 220,000 nBTC (nano). We love big numbers and hate decimals.
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November 07, 2013, 04:26:37 AM
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There is no subway near Moscow, lol

You sure of that?

http://www.subway.ru/restaurants/central/moscow/

ETA: In case you can't read the Cyrillic alphabet - Mocквa is Cyrillic for Moskva, which is the Russian name for Moscow.

I'm russian and live there (surprise!), there is no subway NEAR Moscow, double lol. I think it's fake

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November 07, 2013, 04:57:03 AM
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There is no subway near Moscow, lol

You sure of that?

http://www.subway.ru/restaurants/central/moscow/

ETA: In case you can't read the Cyrillic alphabet - Mocквa is Cyrillic for Moskva, which is the Russian name for Moscow.

I'm russian and live there (surprise!), there is no subway NEAR Moscow, double lol. I think it's fake

Wherever you live, you lack reading comprehension, even in your own language, because I think a chain of restaurants knows where their own franchises are.
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November 07, 2013, 05:02:46 AM
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Wherever you live, you lack reading comprehension, even in your own language, because I think a chain of restaurants knows where their own franchises are.

I don't really care, calm dowm

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November 07, 2013, 11:31:24 AM
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"BTC 0.01953 Footlongs!" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

As Lollaskates pointed out, this isn't a Bitcoin problem, it's a marketing one.

Try "20 mil footlongs!" where mil is short for millibitcoin(s)/mBTC.  The market may prefer "millies", "millibits", or "bitmil" instead but a popular name for the unit will emerge.

I maintain that BTC has been a horrible unit almost all year and have only used it myself to explain what mBTC means.  Indeed people seemed to be much happier with the BTC unit in early 2010 than they are today which suggests that even uBTC would be friendlier than BTC at this point.
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November 07, 2013, 12:17:49 PM
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There is no subway near Moscow, lol

You sure of that?

http://www.subway.ru/restaurants/central/moscow/

ETA: In case you can't read the Cyrillic alphabet - Mocквa is Cyrillic for Moskva, which is the Russian name for Moscow.

I'm russian and live there (surprise!), there is no subway NEAR Moscow, double lol. I think it's fake

It's a very elaborate fake if it is....
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November 07, 2013, 12:23:09 PM
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Also, google streetview seems to have managed to photograph a Subway near Moscow.

http://bit.ly/HBRzWO

There is some suggestion this may be the Subway branch in question, but whether or not it is, surely you're not going to claim that Google is somehow in on this fake?

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November 07, 2013, 12:39:47 PM
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Also, google streetview seems to have managed to photograph a Subway near Moscow.

http://bit.ly/HBRzWO

There is some suggestion this may be the Subway branch in question, but whether or not it is, surely you're not going to claim that Google is somehow in on this fake?

Ok, I stay corrected. Do you suggest I visit that place and try to pay with Bitcoin?

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November 07, 2013, 06:27:02 PM
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Also, google streetview seems to have managed to photograph a Subway near Moscow.

http://bit.ly/HBRzWO

There is some suggestion this may be the Subway branch in question, but whether or not it is, surely you're not going to claim that Google is somehow in on this fake?

Ok, I stay corrected. Do you suggest I visit that place and try to pay with Bitcoin?

Well, I'm not sure if anyone has confirmed that this really is the right Subway (assuming this is real).  I got that from this article: http://www.coindesk.com/subway-sandwich-russia-bitcoin-payments/
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November 07, 2013, 07:28:33 PM
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Well, I'm not sure if anyone has confirmed that this really is the right Subway (assuming this is real).  I got that from this article: http://www.coindesk.com/subway-sandwich-russia-bitcoin-payments/

Should I start a BTC collection campaign to find out exactly?

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