2013-04-07 Sunday Extra - Interview with Maria Bustillos - ABC Australia

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This is the reply I got from Walmart:

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Thank you for contacting Walmart.com regarding the link you provide us with and about the bitcoin gift cards we sell. We are glad to look into this matter for you.

In order to assist you, please be more specific with your question. We have no idea about Bitcoin gift cards and we are not able to open up any link due to system limitations.

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Maria Bustillos understands more than the average journalist. She wrote a great article in the New Yorker and this interview is good, too.

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Quote from: xcsler on April 07, 2013, 12:21:48 PM

"Walmart sells Bitcoin gift cards"? WTF!? Did I miss something?

Yeah, seriously? I would be very happy if you prove me wrong. Yes I would love to be wrong!! Cheesy

I'll send them an email. To do that I'm at "Online Products & Services". Please help me with Gift Cards, Specifically "Other". Ok, done!

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ABC Radio National reported at Sunday 7 April 2013 9:20AM from http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sundayextra/bitcoins/4614208
that Walmart sell Bitcoin gift cards:
"Although there are no physical coins, Walmart sells Bitcoin gift cards, and WordPress and Reddit both take payments in Bitcoin."

Is that correct? Am I right in assuming that is not so?

Argh

, missed some spelling/grammar.
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Thank you for contacting Walmart.com. We value your opinion and welcome your feedback. One of our Customer Service Associates will respond to you soon.

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"Walmart sells Bitcoin gift cards"? WTF!? Did I miss something?

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Interview with Maria Bustillos, at Sunday Extra - ABC.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sundayextra/bitcoins/4614208

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Have you heard about the Bitcoin bubble? What's a Bitcoin, you ask?

A weirdly invisible yet valuable internet currency is part of the answer. Although there are no physical coins, Walmart sells Bitcoin gift cards, and WordPress and Reddit both take payments in Bitcoin.

The repercussions of that latest twists in the eurozone saga are still unfolding, but amid the financial and social chaos the little understood Bitcoin has reached record highs in value.

Could this complex creation of computing be the new gold—an electronic safe haven?

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