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Re: Overstock.com not accepting bitcoins as payment!
by
BitchicksHusband
on 09/01/2014, 22:24:52 UTC

If you pay with your CC in a store, you still say the store accepts the CC. Even though they get fiat from the CC company.



The credit card itself is based on fiat.

Overstock does not accept BTC for a later use to...restock itself using BTC to pay it's suppliers. Etc...  That would be an actual acceptance of BTC.

What they offer is a way for you to pay in BTC but what they accept is fiat.  
You don't know if they are not keeping some parts of profits in BTC. Anyway, it is great news, we should be all proud to be part of it. If this is not great news, i don't know what people more want to hear to understand that Bitcoin is BIG DEAL.

Well if they're using Bitpay then they instantly turn it into fiat.

Both Bitpay (who they don't use) and Coinbase (who they do use) allow you to select any percentage from 0% to 100% to keep in bitcoin.  But apparently they've already said they are converting 100% immediately.