Wallmart selling BTC miners?!??!?!?!

bitcoinsrus

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Quote from: Wolf Rainer on May 30, 2014, 09:21:37 AM

"Not long ago, mining Bitcoin was territory for serious nerds and hardware freaks " Grin

Incredible BFL has scammed a lot of people and now they sell in wallmark, they maded.

Lets see if tiger direct delivers first Grin

(where walmart gets there stuff)

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"Not long ago, mining Bitcoin was territory for serious nerds and hardware freaks " Grin

Incredible BFL has scammed a lot of people and now they sell in wallmark, they maded.

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This is good to see, why?

If you're on their site and just type bitcoin in the search, it now returns something.

Honestly, it'l be great when they are physically STOCKED in-stores to purchase. That will be great!

When they have physical miners in their stores.. shit will get crazy.

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I was excited until I realized that I could never buy the miners they are selling..... LOL

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Quote from: protokol on May 29, 2014, 04:12:52 PM

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10 GH/s Processor; high speed ensures efficient bitcoining

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Plug and play; enables hassle free usage for bitcoining

YAY bitcoining till I die mofo.

First there was HOLDING now there is BITCOINING. I love it.

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Quote from: Elwar on May 29, 2014, 03:34:36 PM

For all of those people that keep worrying about ASICs making Bitcoin more centralized I have repeatedly told them that because of this you will at some point be able to go into a Walmart or Best Buy and buy your miner for $50 and be able to easily plug it in and start making money.

When any joe schmoe can go into Walmart and buy a miner that they just plug into their computer and give it an address to send their bitcoins, then there is no stopping the decentralization of it. Like going in and buying a Roku box to get better channels with little effort setting things up.

sure, but it seems to me that casual miners are like a drop in the bucket compared with the hashing power produced by big mining farms. and won't this trend continue? i'm not sure that the growth of casual miners is significant.

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10 GH/s Processor; high speed ensures efficient bitcoining

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Plug and play; enables hassle free usage for bitcoining

YAY bitcoining till I die mofo.

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For all of those people that keep worrying about ASICs making Bitcoin more centralized I have repeatedly told them that because of this you will at some point be able to go into a Walmart or Best Buy and buy your miner for $50 and be able to easily plug it in and start making money.

When any joe schmoe can go into Walmart and buy a miner that they just plug into their computer and give it an address to send their bitcoins, then there is no stopping the decentralization of it. Like going in and buying a Roku box to get better channels with little effort setting things up.

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This is like when I saw a fixed gear bike on sale at target.... once it has hit the masses you know that its played out.
also Jalapeno is a great little box for folks who want to "Dabble", but you can get them off of ebay for way, way, WAY less than 300 bucks at this point.

uhoh

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Surprised it hasn't been pointed out, but it's only listed on walmart -- it's tigerdirect that are fulfulling the orders.

EDIT: Oops, it has been pointed out

I'll read next time.

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Welt Am Draht

Pretty darned cool even if it is a financial disaster for the buyer.

I guess a disclaimer about setting your money on fire by buying this wouldn't be too savvy on their part.

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Never thought I would see this

ShameOnYou

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Wow, that's awesome. I'm not super excited for a bunch of noobs to get fleeced buying crappy miners, but this would appear to be news of the bullish sort. Cool

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And here it is:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Butterfly-Labs-Bitcoin-Miner-10-GH-S-Processor-USB-2.0-BF0010G/34952957

Edit: And the search for "bitcoin" on walmart.com which returns three results:
http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?search_query=bitcoin&ic=16_0&Find=Find&search_constraint=0

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Quote from: BittBurger on May 29, 2014, 12:05:53 PM

Who knows.

Maybe a bunch of people mining 0.0001 BTC will be sitting on $100 from that one day.

If we truly believe BTC is going to the moon - then technically - these are a great deal for Walmart buyers.

Fast forward 10 years where you hear a dude say: "Man they were selling those 10G miners at Walmart back in 2014 - i SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT ONE!"

Still more profitable just buy some coins.. for now.

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Quote from: BittBurger on May 29, 2014, 12:05:53 PM

Who knows.

Maybe a bunch of people mining 0.0001 BTC will be sitting on $100 from that one day.

If we truly believe BTC is going to the moon - then technically - these are a great deal for Walmart buyers.

Fast forward 10 years where you hear a dude say: "Man they were selling those 10G miners at Walmart back in 2014 - i SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT ONE!"

I agree with this, walmart might be the only way people can get miners.

How long do you think before there is a mining section in walmart or never? I think with in 10 years.

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Who knows.

Maybe a bunch of people mining 0.0001 BTC will be sitting on $100 from that one day.

If we truly believe BTC is going to the moon - then technically - these are a great deal for Walmart buyers.

Fast forward 10 years where you hear a dude say: "Man they were selling those 10G miners at Walmart back in 2014 - i SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT ONE!"

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World Class Cryptonaire

Even though its on walmart's website it is actually being sold and shipped by TigerDirect, which is nothing new.

spazzdla

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Boys.. boys... boys..

It's the principle.. I understand 10gh is shit, I'm a lil 720Gh/s miner.

Walmart
Selling
Bitcoin
Mining
Gear

Is the point, Walmart..

bitcoinsrus

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That's one expensive noise cancelling machine for when you go to sleep.
(10 gh is not that much hashing power)

[edit]: in response to Op (below me). That is correct. It is the fact that they are selling it to (which is why I linked this in my newest post as well).

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