Topic: Why Is Getting Bitcoin "Accepted" As A Form Of Payment So Important??? (Read 6122 times)

Because Bitcoin has a big impact. This makes Bitcoin more familiar and helps in development. We know Bitcoin is the digital currency. We now live in a digital era where everything is connected to the Internet. There is a high likelihood of Bitcoin for each of our transactions, so it is important.

That seems to be the general consensus around here at least, is it not? That we need to focus on making bitcoin an accepted form of payment at as many institutions as possible. And ASAP.

Gold is the world standard in terms of holding a value.

But nobody can take their bar of gold to a store and buy a pack of gum.

Most everybody's gold is held in a vault. You rarely get to touch it. But you don't have to. You know you can't take a bar and go buy a car. But you don't care.

These qualities of gold are quite similar to bitcoin and it's intangibility.

I think we need to start thinking about catering to a more... swiss-bank-account-holder-type so to speak.

Let the world know that you can securely store your net worth and access it at anytime, for the cost of an average banking transaction fee and I would assume that investment into the bitcoin platform would skyrocket.

Why try to change bitcoin from what it already is? A store of value.

I think it would be a much easier and saner a goal to achieve first (making bitcoin an accepted store of value), before we strain the community too much in trying to tackle an incredibly competitive payments market. I mean... those companies work on margins of fractions of a percent. They have ties with big banks and government, most of whom most likely won't want to deal with us - at first at least.

Besides, we need people to have money invested in bitcoin in order to spend it first, right?!

That seems to be the general consensus around here at least, is it not? That we need to focus on making bitcoin an accepted form of payment at as many institutions as possible. And ASAP.

Gold is the world standard in terms of holding a value.

But nobody can take their bar of gold to a store and buy a pack of gum.

Most everybody's gold is held in a vault. You rarely get to touch it. But you don't have to. You know you can't take a bar and go buy a car. But you don't care.

These qualities of gold are quite similar to bitcoin and it's intangibility.

I think we need to start thinking about catering to a more... swiss-bank-account-holder-type so to speak.

Let the world know that you can securely store your net worth and access it at anytime, for the cost of an average banking transaction fee and I would assume that investment into the bitcoin platform would skyrocket.

Why try to change bitcoin from what it already is? A store of value.

I think it would be a much easier and saner a goal to achieve first (making bitcoin an accepted store of value), before we strain the community too much in trying to tackle an incredibly competitive payments market. I mean... those companies work on margins of fractions of a percent. They have ties with big banks and government, most of whom most likely won't want to deal with us - at first at least.

Besides, we need people to have money invested in bitcoin in order to spend it first, right?!

To point out, bitcoin is very easy to use as a payment method because there is no need for bank details to send money, all you need is the receiver's address.

Boy we're getting technical here!

Yes, that is what I meant. I live in Canada. In Canada, our mint sells "$100", "$200", "$500" gold coins... etc... they are 24k gold. They are worth a shit load more than $500 each. And they are legal tender. Meaning you can spend them anywhere - because technically they are worth $500 at a bank - (ie. for a car, which was my original argument) but you would be a fool to do so. They're generally collectors items.

Sorry I didn't explain myself better the first time around my southern friend!

Before something can be a store of value, it needs to have value. Gold gained this initially through being wanted for use in jewelry. The only way bitcoin can gain value, is by proving its worth as a useful (or even best) means of electronic payment.

Not by any definition of that term that I have ever heard.  Even an American gold Eagle isn't legal tender because of the gold content of the coin, but because of the face value stamped into the side of it.