Some of the software I've seen for accepting Bitcoin has more bugs and problems in it than Fallout New Vegas on launch, the only real way to do business right now seems to be doing everything manually.
The BitPay FAIL was a huge letdown for me. I questioned why they couldn't just pull up their tx log to see if my tx showed up. The manager just said he'd cover our drinks, but that didn't sit well with me. The following 2 txs went through without a hitch. For a "casual/first-time" Bitcoiner that could have been all she wrote.
Damn, $15 shots? Is that normal? I'm not of legal drinking age (in the US) but I've bought them in other places and they were like $4 max.
only in NYC (which is why i now live in ATL)
Also saying 5/10 doesn't make any sense because of the way you are rating your "bitcoin night".
I was just hoping to minimize my fiat expenditures; but ended up spending almost as much in USD as BTC. We arrived too late for dinner and it was an event night; that really threw things off.
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I have a lot more respect for Kashmir Hill and the Bitcoin Newlyweds. I'm working on a project of my own and this experience served as a baseline as to the State of Bitcoin.
I'm actually hoping to make it back tonight (early enough for dinner). I envisioned EVR as a place that I could take BTCurious to show them what its all about. But I don't want to be spending fiat at every turn. Kind of goes against the point.
hope things get better for the next time you visit, sounds like a lot of problems are just with software. I'm surprised that bitpay don't check that their services are working properly with the way they're almost certainly making millions of these people in transactions, sounds to me like they're just milking profit rather than running a business.