What kind of an effect will Bing adding BTC converter have on Bitcoin?

[BitcoinMamba]

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2014/02/10/microsoft-beats-google-adding-bitcoin-currency-conversion-bing/#!u9mMe

I think this is great news, both for personal reasons and also for Bitcoin in general.

1) It's awesome, because I am lazy and it makes my life easier. I don't have to go through the trouble of using a calculator and looking for the freshest price of bitcoin every time i need to calculate the price of x amount of bitcoins.

Before yesterday when I wanted to know how many btc i could get for $25000 i had to go through three steps: First I had to find the most current price of btc on coinmarketcap.com or coindesk or any other site with current information.
Secondly I had to open up a calculator.
Third I had to calculate (current price x $25000) and only then could I get the answer.

Now i just open up Bing and type "25000 usd to btc" and i get the answer. Much easier.

When calculating several different amounts this is very helpful.

I'm sure this has been coded before and lots of people use these kinds of applications already, but to the mainstream public it's a first. Shows, that stuff is getting serious, when Microsoft gets in on it.

2) It's also good for Bitcoin in general.

I am not the only lazy person in the world. There are lots of people just like me, who want to do things faster and more conveniently. I have never used Bing before, I am always going to google when I need to search anything. Will this make me use Bing for searches aswell? I am now going to Bing whenever I need to calculate the amount of btc i get for another currency. Maybe this will create a habit of using Bing for other searches aswell.

Again, I am not the only lazy person in the world... Lots of people are going to be using Bing, just like me...
Which means that Bing will be stealing traffic from Google... Will Google let it happen? I doubt it!

If Google doesn't want to lose traffic to Bing it will have to go with the flow and also add a btc converter. Since the google currency converter already has more currencies than the Bing converter, might Google also add othe cryptocurrencies like Litecoin or Nxt etc? Even if they go with only btc it's still a great event in the Bitcoin world.

Google adding a btc converter would be a huge headline. A headline that would leave btc investors and speculants rubbing their hands together.

What are your thoughts on this?
Do you think it's a good update by Bing?
Do you think Google will punish Bing in this battle for traffic?
And mainly: what kind of an effect do you think it will have on the price of BTC?

[Lauda]

Simple answer: Nothing special.
This is not a big deal at all.

[MakeBelieve]

Who uses bing? No one only google I think and I don't think there's any chance google will add it.

[bitsaber]

This is great news. It's just too bad bitcoin traders represent a fraction of users that's even smaller than Bing users...

[BitcoinMamba]

Simple answer: Nothing special.
This is not a big deal at all.

Read the whole post.

It might become a big deal if google adds it aswell.

I predict google will add it aswell. Talk about good publicity.

Who uses bing? No one only google I think and I don't think there's any chance google will add it.

Are you sure? Look at what i wrote. Noone uses bing, but people are going to start using it for calculating bitcoin values if Google doesn't add on themselves.

Once google adds this, it will not only be good news for the price of BTC, but for the whole Bitcoin world itself. Perhaps even the whole cryptocurrency world.

This is great news. It's just too bad bitcoin traders represent a fraction of users that's even smaller than Bing users...

This is true, but bing and google are competitors. It's not only about the number of people calculating bitcoin on bing. It's about the image of the company and keeping up with modern technologies.

I'm sure most people on these boards are sure, that Bitcoin is a big thing that is shaping the modern human society. Google will not want to miss this train and it's only a matter of time until they get on it...

What will it bring...

[CoinMode]

This is actually much bigger news than people understand. We are setting up for a classic battle of ideologies that goes far beyond the scope of just cryptocurrency. Take this however you like, but, this is a world stage event now.



US Senate and Bernanke say bitcoin looks promising
THEN...
China clamps down on exchanges and processors

US-based companies and entrepreneurs start accepting bitcoin
THEN...
Russia outlaws it completely

Apple bans most popular bitcoin apps
THEN...
Microsoft accepts first bitcoin app


You would have to be legally blind to not see this train's headlight coming down the dark tunnel. This is going to be an epic Commies Vs. Patriots or Apple Vs. Microsoft level battle, and it has only just begun. I need to buy some popcorn. In the end, I hope Apple pays for their ignorance, and China and Russia do as well.

I hate Microsoft so much since the release of the original Xbox for an almost limitless number of reasons, the most of which being Halo paraded around in front of PC gamers at E3 2001 only to be ripped from our dreams the next month. However, I can easily say that I hate Apple way more since, well, since they have never been friendly at all to gamers or actual hardware enthusiasts after the release of the Apple IIe.



My overall opinion is let China and Russia and Apple lose a ton of money. They deserve it.

[BadBear]

Pfft, let me know when Altavista adds it.

[vpitcher07]

This is actually much bigger news than people understand. We are setting up for a classic battle of ideologies that goes far beyond the scope of just cryptocurrency. Take this however you like, but, this is a world stage event now.



US Senate and Bernanke say bitcoin looks promising
THEN...
China clamps down on exchanges and processors

US-based companies and entrepreneurs start accepting bitcoin
THEN...
Russia outlaws it completely

Apple bans most popular bitcoin apps
THEN...
Microsoft accepts first bitcoin app


You would have to be legally blind to not see this train's headlight coming down the dark tunnel. This is going to be an epic Commies Vs. Patriots or Apple Vs. Microsoft level battle, and it has only just begun. I need to buy some popcorn. In the end, I hope Apple pays for their ignorance, and China and Russia do as well.

I hate Microsoft so much since the release of the original Xbox for an almost limitless number of reasons, the most of which being Halo paraded around in front of PC gamers at E3 2001 only to be ripped from our dreams the next month. However, I can easily say that I hate Apple way more since, well, since they have never been friendly at all to gamers or actual hardware enthusiasts after the release of the Apple IIe.



My overall opinion is let China and Russia and Apple lose a ton of money. They deserve it.

I have way more confidence in Microsoft when it comes to Bitcoin than in apple. Apple is far too controlling to allow such a decentralized and open idea. Funny because it used to be the other way around.

[Nathonas]

Why would this have ANY affect at all?

Nobody uses Bing, and even if they did ,why on Earth would this matter?

[CoinMode]

This is actually much bigger news than people understand. We are setting up for a classic battle of ideologies that goes far beyond the scope of just cryptocurrency. Take this however you like, but, this is a world stage event now.



US Senate and Bernanke say bitcoin looks promising
THEN...
China clamps down on exchanges and processors

US-based companies and entrepreneurs start accepting bitcoin
THEN...
Russia outlaws it completely

Apple bans most popular bitcoin apps
THEN...
Microsoft accepts first bitcoin app


You would have to be legally blind to not see this train's headlight coming down the dark tunnel. This is going to be an epic Commies Vs. Patriots or Apple Vs. Microsoft level battle, and it has only just begun. I need to buy some popcorn. In the end, I hope Apple pays for their ignorance, and China and Russia do as well.

I hate Microsoft so much since the release of the original Xbox for an almost limitless number of reasons, the most of which being Halo paraded around in front of PC gamers at E3 2001 only to be ripped from our dreams the next month. However, I can easily say that I hate Apple way more since, well, since they have never been friendly at all to gamers or actual hardware enthusiasts after the release of the Apple IIe.



My overall opinion is let China and Russia and Apple lose a ton of money. They deserve it.

I have way more confidence in Microsoft when it comes to Bitcoin than in apple. Apple is far too controlling to allow such a decentralized and open idea. Funny because it used to be the other way around.

They had you fooled the whole time. Apple was never for open platforms. After the Apple II they had complete control over all hardware that would ever go into their devices. Anybody can make a videocard for Windows, and you can install anybody's videocard as long as it fits the standard. Apple made it a habit to charge extreme sums of money for any authorization of parts for their machines. You would normally have about 100 options for videocards on a PC and you would have 2 on a Mac, if you were extremely lucky. Also, anybody can write anything they want for windows and sell it. Apple is like Nintendo when it comes to software, demanding publishers meet their desires for any kind of software. Once Steve Jobs called Google to tell them to change the color yellow gradient on their iphone app logo. This was not a friendly suggestion but an outright demand. Microsoft on the other hand has usually let people do whatever the fuck they want on Windows, up until the recent version you could install anything you wanted in any possible way you wanted. Now you have to hack the operating system to install tons of old programs from a CD or hard drive exe.

tl:dr Apple has always been a centralized, closed up bunch of assholes. Microsoft have always been assholes, but at least they used to be extremely open to 3rd party products of any kind. Think BetaMAX vs. VHS

[h3rlihy]

This will have no effect. Nobody uses bing. Except your nan who still uses internet explorer which defaults to it. The only thing bing is good for is if google is ever down and you need to search for why google is down.

[BitcoinMamba]

This will have no effect. Nobody uses bing. Except your nan who still uses internet explorer which defaults to it. The only thing bing is good for is if google is ever down and you need to search for why google is down.

Did you even read the thread?

Your statements have been answered several times

[hilariousandco]

Who uses bing? No one only google I think and I don't think there's any chance google will add it.

That's what I thought. I'm sure google will implement it soon enough, but it's not that difficult to just use existing sites. What exchange(s) do they even use?

[S4VV4S]

This is actually much bigger news than people understand. We are setting up for a classic battle of ideologies that goes far beyond the scope of just cryptocurrency. Take this however you like, but, this is a world stage event now.



US Senate and Bernanke say bitcoin looks promising
THEN...
China clamps down on exchanges and processors

US-based companies and entrepreneurs start accepting bitcoin
THEN...
Russia outlaws it completely

Apple bans most popular bitcoin apps
THEN...
Microsoft accepts first bitcoin app


You would have to be legally blind to not see this train's headlight coming down the dark tunnel. This is going to be an epic Commies Vs. Patriots or Apple Vs. Microsoft level battle, and it has only just begun. I need to buy some popcorn. In the end, I hope Apple pays for their ignorance, and China and Russia do as well.

I hate Microsoft so much since the release of the original Xbox for an almost limitless number of reasons, the most of which being Halo paraded around in front of PC gamers at E3 2001 only to be ripped from our dreams the next month. However, I can easily say that I hate Apple way more since, well, since they have never been friendly at all to gamers or actual hardware enthusiasts after the release of the Apple IIe.



My overall opinion is let China and Russia and Apple lose a ton of money. They deserve it.

How is China going to lose money?
They are making tons of money by selling miners.

[boogi]

come on, its bing.

[BitcoinMamba]

This is actually much bigger news than people understand. We are setting up for a classic battle of ideologies that goes far beyond the scope of just cryptocurrency. Take this however you like, but, this is a world stage event now.



US Senate and Bernanke say bitcoin looks promising
THEN...
China clamps down on exchanges and processors

US-based companies and entrepreneurs start accepting bitcoin
THEN...
Russia outlaws it completely

Apple bans most popular bitcoin apps
THEN...
Microsoft accepts first bitcoin app


You would have to be legally blind to not see this train's headlight coming down the dark tunnel. This is going to be an epic Commies Vs. Patriots or Apple Vs. Microsoft level battle, and it has only just begun. I need to buy some popcorn. In the end, I hope Apple pays for their ignorance, and China and Russia do as well.

I hate Microsoft so much since the release of the original Xbox for an almost limitless number of reasons, the most of which being Halo paraded around in front of PC gamers at E3 2001 only to be ripped from our dreams the next month. However, I can easily say that I hate Apple way more since, well, since they have never been friendly at all to gamers or actual hardware enthusiasts after the release of the Apple IIe.



My overall opinion is let China and Russia and Apple lose a ton of money. They deserve it.

Very interesting view on this commies vs partriots example. Never thought of it before, but now it makes sense.

I am sure, that the bitcoin community is too strong for anyone to destroy right now. It seems to be only growing bigger and it's only a matter of time until google and apple accept it aswell. Thent the price of btc should be way higher than it is right now. Time to gobble up those BTCs