Quote from: pjviitas on July 24, 2014, 02:20:52 AM

Quote from: Room101 on July 24, 2014, 01:52:24 AM

As an Aussie, I have to say, all these retailers offering BTC payment are completely missing the point. Why would an American pay with BTC? A credit card is surely much much easier. It's us foreigners that need it, we get screwed by the currency conversion. At the moment the only person paying with BTC is someone that already had them, probably purchased much much cheaper, and is in effect cashing out. Nobody in their right mind would buy BTC just to purchase something online, the hassle and time involved is still ridiculous. But for something like a laptop, where currency conversion is usually around 3 -5 % of price, it could make a $100 dollar difference to everyone overseas, which would definitely drive adoption.

Dell, Overstock et al, get your shit together!!

Yup...if you don't have Bitcoin using fiat is easier and cheaper.

Imagine what the internet would be like without identity theft. Feeding that dream is enough to motivate me to use BTC.