Quote from: CharlieContent on October 10, 2012, 01:28:06 PM

Quote from: sturle on October 10, 2012, 12:40:23 PM

Quote from: CharlieContent on October 09, 2012, 08:10:27 PM

Put yourself in the shoes of someone who doesn't already hold coins (99.99999999% of the population.) Do you still think making a Bitcoin payment is easier?

False. I hold bitcoins, and I am more than 0.00000001% of the world population.

Edit: I just realized I have sold or given away bitcoins to 0.005% of the population of my own country, and that is probably just a small part of the coin holding population of my country.

Let me ask you a question. If someone says "Can you wait a second?" do you look at your watch and wait for one second to elapse?

No, but I certainly don't expect to wait for a whole week. IMHO a long series of made up 9s expresses the same as the same number of exclamation marks. Your argument doesn't get better by yelling it, but people would take it more seriously if you wrote it like this instead:

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Put yourself in the shoes of someone who doesn't already hold coins. Do you still think making a Bitcoin payment is easier?!!!!!!!!!!

Or you could make it look even better, and make people notice your point, like this:

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Put yourself in the shoes of someone who doesn't already hold coins. Do you still think making a Bitcoin payment is easier?

If you read this thread closely, I answered that. It's a feature. People who don't have money can't pretend to pay. That is very important if you sell things, and the main reason why many stores are reluctant to take credit cards.

I tried to buy stuff in the U.S. and have it mailed to a friend there to avoid VAT. (Sending it via my home address would mean 25% VAT and much higher shipping costs.) It turned out to be impossible, because no store would send to another address than the one registered with my cards. I wish I could pay with bitcoins then. It takes maximum one business day to buy coins if you don't have any, unless you live in some third world country.