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Quote from: Ron~Popeil on June 11, 2014, 10:37:20 PM

I just booked 2 nights for the drive to and from my vacation in August. I sent a corresponding purchase through coinbase to replenish my bit coin of course.

that's nice and all, but it probably costs more having to exchange your fiat into btc to get your room.

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I just booked 2 nights for the drive to and from my vacation in August. I sent a corresponding purchase through coinbase to replenish my bit coin of course.

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Amazing ! Not just because it will affect the prices and some will lose and others will win money, as every innovation or new tech, Bitcoin

help us to improve quality of life and make a lot of things more comfortable; in this case travel-booking.

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Hopefully they will expend this to ticket booking quickly!

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This is good news, just a shame that I rarely find the best offers on expedia

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Quote from: Nathonas on June 11, 2014, 08:35:33 PM

Wow! This is huge news! Expedia is a very, very big, billion dollar company. I think it is actually THE biggest company so far to accept Bitcoin. This is the kind of thing we need to drive mass adoption by the world's leading companies.

No offense, but that kind of sounds communistic-ish. We don't need BTC to do anything. The natural flow is inevitable. Give it time and have patience.

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Quote from: tins on June 11, 2014, 03:45:52 PM

That's pretty cool. I hope Priceline follows suit.

William Shatner can do a heck of a commercial for them!

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This is an awesome news and this is the kind of acceptance we need to see for real price hikes. Which I am hoping we will be seeing soon.

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Awesome news! Expedia just earned a new customer.

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Wow! This is huge news! Expedia is a very, very big, billion dollar company. I think it is actually THE biggest company so far to accept Bitcoin. This is the kind of thing we need to drive mass adoption by the world's leading companies.

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Quote from: Carlton Banks on June 11, 2014, 05:14:01 PM

It's more interesting to imagine the secondary effects here.

What do people do when they travel? Bring local currency. Tourism driven businesses may begin to realise they have an opportunity in accepting bitcoin from travellers who are already using it to pay for the trip. Touristic businesses are probably used to dealing with people using stolen credit cards or doing chargebacks more than alot of businesses, so they'll see bitcoin like a form of universal cash.

The more that tourist areas accept bitcoin, the more people will bring bitcoin to spend when travelling, and vice versa. Very nice positive feedback loop. Why change to dozens of different currencies for all the places you visit when you could keep one that's accepted almost everywhere? And when you get home with a little left over, it turns out they accept it back home too...

agreed

plus what happens when yahoo finance and bloomberg finance list bitcoin in their finance price index/ticker?
next day google have to add so as not to look retarded and lose traffic

so, obviously a travel operator integrating is slightly more longwinded to add and has to be evaluated and find a partner like bitpay or coinbase. but expedia adding means instantly the plethora of other travel operators have to at least evaluate, some WILL add

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Quote from: Gianluca95 on June 11, 2014, 06:26:53 PM

Think that after this news, price of Bitcoin will go to the moon ! Grin

I personally think that the price will drop about 20-30$, because it always drop in price when a good news comes out!

Why? Because people sell before the demand is being made!

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Quote from: Carlton Banks on June 11, 2014, 05:14:01 PM

It's more interesting to imagine the secondary effects here.

What do people do when they travel? Bring local currency. Tourism driven businesses may begin to realise they have an opportunity in accepting bitcoin from travellers who are already using it to pay for the trip. Touristic businesses are probably used to dealing with people using stolen credit cards or doing chargebacks more than alot of businesses, so they'll see bitcoin like a form of universal cash.

The more that tourist areas accept bitcoin, the more people will bring bitcoin to spend when travelling, and vice versa. Very nice positive feedback loop. Why change to dozens of different currencies for all the places you visit when you could keep one that's accepted almost everywhere? And when you get home with a little left over, it turns out they accept it back home too...

Oh god, I got a semi erection reading this and how it will affect the bitcoin price. Cheesy

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Company X taking Bitcoin no longer increases the price like it used to, maybe the mindset is changing that these companies need Bitcoin not Bitcoin needing these companies.

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My default assumption is that this news would have pushed up prices a bit across all exchanges, but that definitely hasn't happened today..

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That's very interesting, Expedia is the biggest travel agency of the world !

Think that after this news, price of Bitcoin will go to the moon ! Grin

So, do you know that Expedia is a company of Microsoft?

Maybe Microsoft testing Bitcoin in a him company, so there is a probability that Microsoft in the next future will use Bitcoin as payment sistem. If this will happen, is the top for Bitcoin !

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fark that is cool!
don't care if its been posted.. i havent seen it !!

my only issue is, expedia is quite expensive isnt it ? they add on there own fee's while the other search engines dont (but I might be wrong??)

anyways this is great. !!

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better everyday ♥

Interesting, I will look for that option next time I checkout through Expedia.

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Expedia: the virtual hipster of travel sites.

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This is a major coup for Expedia. First to market in the travel industry I think.

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