Topic: Fundamental analysis thread - page 7. (Read 19912 times)

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Cyprus, New Zealand & other Mediterranean countries considering/ have decided to confiscate "one time" X% of depositor funds
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/world/europe/russian-ties-put-cyprus-banking-crisis-on-east-west-fault-line.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
TLDR The money you thought was safe from theft in your bank account is not safe (especially if you live in an at risk country in the euro zone).

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Updated with FINCEN releases guidance for virtual currencies (bitcoin)
http://www.fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/pdf/FIN-2013-G001.pdf

Updated with the fork issue

Blockchain forked, problem solved in the short term
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1a51xx/now_that_its_over_the_blockchain_fork_explained/

I sure hope that friend is paying in BTC!

Keep in mind that domain registration is extremely competitive and commoditized. Godaddy has greatly angered the Internet by (1) supporting SOPA/PIPA and (2) having a really painful checkout process. Many domainers have accounts at all the major registrars but keep most of their domains at Godaddy because they are slightly cheaper and have extremely attractive women in their advertisements.

Namecheap offered discount codes to everyone who transferred domains from Godaddy during the SOPA/PIPA mess. Although many domainers hate Godaddy and ideologically support Namecheap's SOPA/PIPA/EFF stand they still did not move merely because of being lazy and the inconvenience. Namecheap understands this and is why they emailed their entire customer list to inform them about Bitcoin and Namecheap has now featured Bitcoin promimently on their homepage. Also, notice the EFF notice; in effect pleading to the domainers and not just completely freeride on Internet freedom to save a few cents per year by going with Godaddy.

It is clear that Namecheap is attempting to distinguish itself in this commoditized space by being the safe and Internet freedom oriented domain registrar.

But now with Bitcoin I know many that are starting the long-needed migration. It will be interesting to see how well Namecheap's gambit plays out. For example, I have a lazy friend who is in the process of moving 20,000 domains from GoDaddy to Namecheap. That is about $200,000 per year in gross fees.

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source: http://www.runtogold.com/bitcoin-price/

Yep, it is great - but I havent heard anything about volume yet. I think its still a question mark whether or not this site will take off or not.

don't forget about bitcoin store, it's a biggie with big backers.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/bitcoin-gives-an-edge-to-amazon-competitors

"Roger Ver, the founder of the site, launched it to serve as a high-level demonstration for companies like Amazon and NewEgg, a lesson in the benefits of Bitcoin. If any of these companies begin taking payments in Bitcoin, representatives at BitcoinStore say they will close shop in triumph."

supplying 500,000+ items from Ingram Micro, which is a massive company and certainly good press for bitcoin
http://www.bitcoinstore.com/

Haven't heard about WinPoker before, I think it's rather small. Still, the iPoker network is huge, so there should be plenty of action. Not sure if I trust this WinPoker with my money though.

Haven't heard this news yet... how big is WinPoker?  Are they the company that Gambling911 was talking about?

http://pokerfuse.com/features/in-depth/winpoker-bitcoin-comes-worlds-largest-online-poker-network-ipoker-06-03/

Too bad the money is converted to a traditional currency upon depositing, but still good news nevertheless.

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edit: updated again because that was a fake.

https://twitter.com/SilkRoadDrugs/status/309238128097517568

While not everybody might approve of this, it does strengthen Bitcoin's fundamentals

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Amazon fulfillment integrates with Bitpay

GoDaddy has 52 million domains, so... no.

Cool. Is that bigger than godaddy et. al? I'm not doubting its big, but want to reserve the updates in this list for only the most significant impacts on the market (of which there are already plenty lately).

Meh?

You should go look them up. You won't be meh'ing afterwards.

"They claim to have over 3 million domain names under management."

I thought about it - but meh. I had never heard of them before the announcement.

Namecheap