[2014-06-11] “Woohoo!” Expedia announces Bitcoin acceptance

[aliceHortrex]

http://cointelegraph.com/news/111773/woohoo_expedia_announces_bitcoin_acceptance

Expedia, one of the world’s largest online travel agencies, has announced it will be accepting Bitcoin for hotel bookings.

[nwfella]

This one is huge actually imho.  Tons of young bitcoin millionaires all booking their bitcoin conferences hotel room bookings!  Oh yeah!!

[Swordsoffreedom]

This is the news of the day for me
Remembers using Expedia for a trip a few years back so having the option to use my Bitcoin on that trip is a sweet bonus
(Got to start resisting the urge now XD)

[Bit_Happy]

We also need more merchants who hold their BTC as an investment and/or use it to pay suppliers and staff.
This is HUGE news: 2014 is looking like a massively successful year for BTC. 

[medicine]

This is the news of the day for me
Remembers using Expedia for a trip a few years back so having the option to use my Bitcoin on that trip is a sweet bonus
(Got to start resisting the urge now XD)

I agree this is one of the biggest stories of the day.  Funny that it's only the story of the day because a year or 18 months ago this would have been the story of the month!
I didn't see one negative story today yet the price is falling.  Sometimes I just don't understand the market and that's way I do minimal trading.

[Ron~Popeil]

Man we are on a roll lately. If they get it going in time I will cancel my hotel reservations for my August trip and rebook them with bit coin.

[seriouscoin]

Man we are on a roll lately. If they get it going in time I will cancel my hotel reservations for my August trip and rebook them with bit coin.

Try it again, i heard they got the integration done

[Ron~Popeil]

Man we are on a roll lately. If they get it going in time I will cancel my hotel reservations for my August trip and rebook them with bit coin.

Try it again, i heard they got the integration done

Oh cool. I thought it would be one of those "by the end of the year" kind of things. Thanks for the heads up!

[medicine]

Man we are on a roll lately. If they get it going in time I will cancel my hotel reservations for my August trip and rebook them with bit coin.

Try it again, i heard they got the integration done

Oh cool. I thought it would be one of those "by the end of the year" kind of things. Thanks for the heads up!

Ya, it's there right now on Expedia dot com, I don't see the same option on the Canadian or Korea sites.  Very cool.

[Ron~Popeil]

Man we are on a roll lately. If they get it going in time I will cancel my hotel reservations for my August trip and rebook them with bit coin.

Try it again, i heard they got the integration done

Oh cool. I thought it would be one of those "by the end of the year" kind of things. Thanks for the heads up!

Ya, it's there right now on Expedia dot com, I don't see the same option on the Canadian or Korea sites.  Very cool.

Yeah I see it now. I might have to save a screen cap for posterity. 

[Swordsoffreedom]

This is the news of the day for me
Remembers using Expedia for a trip a few years back so having the option to use my Bitcoin on that trip is a sweet bonus
(Got to start resisting the urge now XD)

I agree this is one of the biggest stories of the day.  Funny that it's only the story of the day because a year or 18 months ago this would have been the story of the month!
I didn't see one negative story today yet the price is falling.  Sometimes I just don't understand the market and that's way I do minimal trading.

The market is probably going WOAH
But in actuality the market might be thinking they will be converting to fiat rapidly so for the short term so the price will dip a bit
Anyways still on schedule
2011 Year of Genius Cryptography users Highly Intelligent
2012 Year of Early Adopters/ Devs  IT/Programmers Coders
2013 Year of Early Adopters/ Mid Adopters Then Business/Economy/Finance People
2014 Year of Merchant Adoption Retailers/Companies/Finance Individuals More General Users but with computer skills
2015 Year of Early Adoption increasing retail usage combined with growing individual usage due to the network effect
2016 Year of Mid Adoption and Breakpoint start seeing a large scale usage and movement to mainstream
2017 Mainstream adoption lower tiers majority of first world countries with adoption start using it and variants of Bitcoin technologies in industry
2018 General Adoption recognized form of trade and commerce.
2019 Late Adopters
2020 Full Markets

[kjlimo]

Crazy awesome.  A major win for bitcoin!

[minimalB]

If i understand correctly, for now they only take btc for hotels and not for other services?

http://viewfinder.expedia.com/features/expedia-embraces-bitcoin

Anyway, this is HUGE!

[ninjaboon]

who's the lady in the pic?
great news for bigger traction.

[koryu]

this is awesome news for people who didnt use credit cards. it's so annoying that you often require a credit card for hotel bookings.
i hope its worldwide and not only for u.s. customers?

[bryant.coleman]

Expedia is the second largest company (in terms of market cap) to accept Bitcoin payments, after DISH. And if I am not mistaken, they are the largest travel website in terms of absolute annual revenue.

[qwk]

i hope its worldwide and not only for u.s. customers?

Right now, the German website Expedia.de doesn't accept Bitcoin.

[qwk]

Expedia is the second largest company (in terms of market cap) to accept Bitcoin payments, after DISH. And if I am not mistaken, they are the largest travel website in terms of absolute annual revenue.

I think priceline is bigger (booking.com), but Expedia is probably second.

[passionsurf]

This is HUGE news, so why is the price going down?

[Ashbite]

This is HUGE news, so why is the price going down?

It is huge news, but the news will not change the course of the bitcoin all of the sudden.
All that bitcoin needs right now is time and popularity.