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Topic: Baidu stops accepting bitcoins payments. (Read 3348 times)

newbie
Activity: 56
Merit: 0
December 07, 2013, 12:41:10 AM
#23
hmm not that btc is close to 700, is coinbase safe to link my bank account to so i can buy?
newbie
Activity: 56
Merit: 0
December 07, 2013, 12:15:58 AM
#22
hmm btc slowed down at 745.... and now i really wish i bought litecoins
legendary
Activity: 2492
Merit: 1473
LEALANA Bitcoin Grim Reaper
December 06, 2013, 11:59:49 PM
#21
Bitcoin > Baidu
Bitcoin > Gox
Bitcoin >? Satoshi
Bitcoin > $...all fiat
legendary
Activity: 3752
Merit: 1217
December 06, 2013, 11:56:43 PM
#20
so i guess its about time to save my 10k dollars i was going to spend on a miner and just buy bitcoins....

anyone know the best place to buy coins and send to block chain wallet?

I would recommend that. It seems that the price-dip is temporary. You can buy 10K worth of bitcoins using fiat right now... and can sell it later for 12K. Mining will never be profitable. Never ever.
full member
Activity: 624
Merit: 125
alcedoplatform.com
December 06, 2013, 11:51:08 PM
#19
so i guess its about time to save my 10k dollars i was going to spend on a miner and just buy bitcoins....

anyone know the best place to buy coins and send to block chain wallet?

Don't put 10k worth of coin on blockchain's wallet.  Use your own wallet and keep it secure.  This has been said so many times I won't even expand on it.
hero member
Activity: 784
Merit: 500
December 06, 2013, 11:45:52 PM
#18
so i guess its about time to save my 10k dollars i was going to spend on a miner and just buy bitcoins....

anyone know the best place to buy coins and send to block chain wallet?

I would recommend Coinbase if you're in the US.
newbie
Activity: 56
Merit: 0
December 06, 2013, 11:44:51 PM
#17
so i guess its about time to save my 10k dollars i was going to spend on a miner and just buy bitcoins....

anyone know the best place to buy coins and send to block chain wallet?
legendary
Activity: 3752
Merit: 1217
December 06, 2013, 09:20:39 PM
#16
Gox is fluctuating at 700-750 levels. If I had money, I'd have bought a few coins....

The main reason for this crash is not China banning banks from BTCs. The reason is that Baidu dumped BTCs due to high volatility.

People feel a bit nervous, as they think that other online / retail stores will also follow the suit.

You can't blame them either. The value has declined by ~45% in the last 24 hours.
full member
Activity: 238
Merit: 100
December 06, 2013, 02:43:26 PM
#15
Great. Glad I held off yesterday as I was looking to buy 1btc Smiley.
sr. member
Activity: 434
Merit: 250
December 06, 2013, 02:16:37 PM
#14
are they saying that the flucuating prices of BTC is making it too risky for them to accept BTC? they started accepting BTC when ti was $130 per coin.. sounds like a front for "we are scared of government."

They kind of are the government. All these large Chinese firms have state officials working there in high-up positions, calling big moves. The idea that one of those guys at Baidu just nonchalantly decided to start accepting stateless internet money without running it past the central planners, well, that's pretty laughable.

maybe the people at baidu decided that they had a lot of friends and family who wanted to invest more into BTC. i guess they didn't make enough in the last rally.
legendary
Activity: 3430
Merit: 3080
December 06, 2013, 02:09:31 PM
#13
are they saying that the flucuating prices of BTC is making it too risky for them to accept BTC? they started accepting BTC when ti was $130 per coin.. sounds like a front for "we are scared of government."

They kind of are the government. All these large Chinese firms have state officials working there in high-up positions, calling big moves. The idea that one of those guys at Baidu just nonchalantly decided to start accepting stateless internet money without running it past the central planners, well, that's pretty laughable.
newbie
Activity: 39
Merit: 0
December 06, 2013, 02:00:45 PM
#12
News sites are picking up this rather slowly, while the price is crashing hard.
sr. member
Activity: 434
Merit: 250
December 06, 2013, 01:16:34 PM
#11
are they saying that the flucuating prices of BTC is making it too risky for them to accept BTC? they started accepting BTC when ti was $130 per coin.. sounds like a front for "we are scared of government."
full member
Activity: 168
Merit: 100
December 06, 2013, 01:14:23 PM
#10
On the other hand, 6000 CNY is roughly worth $980. So it's hard to tell if it will sharply go up again.

I'm sure the folks in Speculation will tell you all about it. Wink
legendary
Activity: 3752
Merit: 1217
December 06, 2013, 01:08:18 PM
#9
Well, Mt.Gox dropped about 10%.

Damn.... Gox is down to 970 from 1,200. Now the crash is around 20%. May be this is a good time to buy... at 900 levels in Gox and at 860-875 levels in Bitstamp.
full member
Activity: 168
Merit: 100
December 06, 2013, 01:04:51 PM
#8
Well, Mt.Gox dropped about 10%.
legendary
Activity: 3752
Merit: 1217
December 06, 2013, 01:01:24 PM
#7
This particular piece of news didn't had much of an effect with any of the exchanges. There was a slight drop, from 6,200 CNY to 5,900 CNY. Now seems to be stabilizing at that figure.
full member
Activity: 168
Merit: 100
December 06, 2013, 01:00:06 PM
#6
The big surprise is that news of the Baidu mp3 service accepting BTC didn't make it out of China, I never heard that news anywhere.

So Baidu Jiasule still accepts bitcoin, but a music service that people were unaware about no longer does?

That explains why the price in China barely moved.

I guess speculators on Mt.Gox decided it was good enough and sold some.
legendary
Activity: 3430
Merit: 3080
December 06, 2013, 12:28:44 PM
#5
They have no established Bitpay style provider in China, although I'm pretty sure one is being started up. This move does make sense in light of that fact, mp3s are such tiny one-off payments that it's difficult to account for wild daily price swings. Jiasule is a different, as it's subscription based service contract type model, and not one-off like mp3 sales.

The big surprise is that news of the Baidu mp3 service accepting BTC didn't make it out of China, I never heard that news anywhere.
hero member
Activity: 784
Merit: 500
December 06, 2013, 12:13:51 PM
#4
Baidu music service? Great translation Tongue

Oh, and did they ever fully implement Bitcoin payments? One payment address for everything ain't how Bitcoin works.

Announcement in Chinese: http://jiasule.baidu.com/news/525cd5aabf9efd699f800e7e/

Baidu Jiasule, a CloudFlare-like anti-DDOS service by Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), today announce that they accept bitcoin for payment. This is the first service of this kind accepts bitcoin (in the whole world, not just China).

If you don't know what is Baidu: it is the Google of China.

Apparently that is what is translated by Google Translate. I read it myself but I didn't understand some of the parts.
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