Will be interesting to see how active DISH customers will be once they start accepting it. I imagine DISH will announce how much they process in Bitcoin each month once it happens? Very good news for sure to have such a large company accepting Bitcoin for a regular ol monthly bill for millions and millions of people.
This is pretty awesome, and it gives a great benefit (if it's played out properly): people can order their PPV pr0n and use Bitcoin so their wife doesn't find out!
haha!
It's great news for sure to get bitcoin acceptance for one of the most common monthly bills anyone pays. It'll be even more wonderful once other television providers and cell phone carriers do so as well.
I brought this up because people call the call centers for DirecTV all the time to ask if they can pay off their pr0n bill without it showing up on their statement (ie. "can I pay it right now and act like it never happened?") so that their family doesn't find out. And people also call and claim they didn't order it and it was their son/daughter/neighbor/pet.
I can't believe that people still pay for porn. It is so widely available on the internet for free. Er that's what a friend told me anyway.
That's only good when you're playing solo. What about when you're having a mandingo party?! Think outside the box, my friend. Now you can have all the enjoyment anonymously (at least I hope?) with DISH!
Have a lot of Mandingo parties do you?
BTW: Bitcoin isn't an anonymous payment system. Cash is.
What's a mandingo party?
And you can't pay DISH with cash as far as I'm aware.
FWIW, the point wasn't anonymity in terms of who you're paying, but rather what you're paying for. A big issue with DISH/DTV/etc. is that when you do PPV, it will show up on your bill because they have to run it through the credit card. Granting the secrecy of allowing you to pay off certain items with BTC and have them removed altogether would be an awesome benefit (for others, not me).
