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Topic: Facebook starts testing Bitcoin payments on their Advertising Platform - BTC 1k! (Read 5568 times)

legendary
Activity: 3066
Merit: 1047
Your country may be your worst enemy
My sources also say the news is fake. Thumbs down for the site which gave it.
legendary
Activity: 1260
Merit: 1001
Yeah, we think these coins have value now, just imagine when the other 99.9% of the world starts using them! Limited supply, increased demand = increased price!
hero member
Activity: 606
Merit: 500
Its really good news as long as there are more and more people accepting bitcoin
hero member
Activity: 588
Merit: 500
This is some good news for BTC's if it was true though I doubt it considering the previous comments on this topic.
newbie
Activity: 47
Merit: 0
I did ask my friend, who works at FB for quite some time and he said that it either is VERY, VERY well kept secret, or this is completely fake.
It is like 95% fake.
sr. member
Activity: 378
Merit: 250
Why would someone try to fake this, getting peoples hopes up.

Someone has already posted, somebody getting ready to dump a fair amount of coins, an announcement likie Facebook accepting BTC is enough to hike the price.
staff
Activity: 3304
Merit: 4115
Why would someone try to fake this, getting peoples hopes up.
legendary
Activity: 3512
Merit: 4557
I can read Dutch and its 100% fake, sorry Sad
member
Activity: 112
Merit: 10
I just copied and Googled "Nieuwe betalingsmethode toevoegen" from the screen grab in the article, I had to use Tor to actually go to the relevant Dutch site because Facebook redirects me in chrome.
Here is the relevant page actually on Facebook "Facebook ads - what are my payment options" and listed are

    Visa
    MasterCard
    American Express
    Discover
    PayPal
    Automatische incasso

https://nl-nl.facebook.com/help/338388466239851/

I would say definitely fake.

I would say this pretty much confirms it's not really.  Is there a chance it's real?  Of course albeit a very small chance.  Fake stories being posted, I'd almost have to say we should close thread.

And BitCoinSteve, not your fault, you're just posting what you find! Smiley

Thanks, just trying to help, if its fake Id like to know also!
hero member
Activity: 994
Merit: 501
I just copied and Googled "Nieuwe betalingsmethode toevoegen" from the screen grab in the article, I had to use Tor to actually go to the relevant Dutch site because Facebook redirects me in chrome.
Here is the relevant page actually on Facebook "Facebook ads - what are my payment options" and listed are

    Visa
    MasterCard
    American Express
    Discover
    PayPal
    Automatische incasso

https://nl-nl.facebook.com/help/338388466239851/

I would say definitely fake.

I would say this pretty much confirms it's not really.  Is there a chance it's real?  Of course albeit a very small chance.  Fake stories being posted, I'd almost have to say we should close thread.

And BitCoinSteve, not your fault, you're just posting what you find! Smiley
sr. member
Activity: 378
Merit: 250
I just copied and Googled "Nieuwe betalingsmethode toevoegen" from the screen grab in the article, I had to use Tor to actually go to the relevant Dutch site because Facebook redirects me in chrome.
Here is the relevant page actually on Facebook "Facebook ads - what are my payment options" and listed are

    Visa
    MasterCard
    American Express
    Discover
    PayPal
    Automatische incasso

https://nl-nl.facebook.com/help/338388466239851/

I would say definitely fake.
member
Activity: 112
Merit: 10
I finally made a good thread! Smiley

Well, is it a "good" thread?! Wink  It has a lot of views and responses simply because of the title but I'm pretty sure this is fake until proven otherwise...

 Undecided
hero member
Activity: 994
Merit: 501
I finally made a good thread! Smiley

Well, is it a "good" thread?! Wink  It has a lot of views and responses simply because of the title but I'm pretty sure this is fake until proven otherwise...
member
Activity: 112
Merit: 10
I finally made a good thread! Smiley
member
Activity: 98
Merit: 10
So 2 pages and no one points out there is not one credible source backing this up?

This could be a scam, ie, photoshop.  No one has verified this.  On the other hand this is just in the testing phase and not an actual press release from FB.  Anyone on these boards have a business in Netherlands?  Open up a business account via FB, it's free, and try to start and ad and pay for it, see if its an option.  

As much as Zuckerberg hates the W Twins, I didn't see this coming, but who knows...

i have a dutch company account, but since it's still in testing i doubt i'd be able to see it.


No way this would be public testing.  Especially not with a payment processor.  If it's true, it's being tested by a QA/Dev. team, and they're working out bugs/functionality. 

Still think it would be pretty awesome.
legendary
Activity: 1344
Merit: 1000
Facebook knows about it every company knows about Bitcoin and they would all be considering using it.

It was word of the year last year in Australia  Cheesy

member
Activity: 112
Merit: 10
I hope its true, seems like btc is rising since the news.
member
Activity: 70
Merit: 10
It would be awesome if this were true. I should happen. It would also be a great way for parents to manage money spent of silly games.       It would be nice if the bitcointalk community supported a bitcoin awareness pr campaign.  Every business should be accepting bitcoins. Sometimes people just need to be told what to do.
legendary
Activity: 1106
Merit: 1005
So 2 pages and no one points out there is not one credible source backing this up?

This could be a scam, ie, photoshop.  No one has verified this.  On the other hand this is just in the testing phase and not an actual press release from FB.  Anyone on these boards have a business in Netherlands?  Open up a business account via FB, it's free, and try to start and ad and pay for it, see if its an option.  

As much as Zuckerberg hates the W Twins, I didn't see this coming, but who knows...

i have a dutch company account, but since it's still in testing i doubt i'd be able to see it.

Do these sites even technically need to accept btc? Couldn't they just use a payment processor who takes the btc payment and converts it to usd for the company? I don't see why companies can't do that and sort of indirectly accept bitcoin.

of course, but a large company like facebook accepting bitcoin directly would make bitcoin a lot more legitimate to new bitcoin users.
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