TigerDirect is Now Accepting Bitcoin As Payment
TigerDirect is joining up with BitPay to accept Bitcoin.
Between wallet services, ATMs, and mining hardware, you'd have to be blind to miss the Bitcoin trend at CES 2014. Butterfly Labs, a company that specializes in mining hardware, even teamed up with BitPay, which helps merchants adopt the new currency, even forked over the cash for a nice looking booth at the show.
The digital currency continues to thrive outside of the world's biggest consumer electronics show, too. This week, TigerDirect became the first major retailer to accept Bitcoin as a form of payment. The company will now be accepting Bitcoin as a method of payment on over 200,000 of its products via BitPay.
"TigerDirect has always been on the forefront of alternative online payment methods and delivering the most convenient ways for our customers to shop,” says Steven Leeds, Director of Corporate Marketing at TigerDirect. "With individuals building their own high-powered PCs with parts offered on our site to mine Bitcoins, it's a logical fit."
Though it may seem like a logical fit, users hoping to mine Bitcoin as a means of funding their next build are likely going to be disappointed. With the value of Bitcoin where it is, mining any meaningful amount on money takes a while. If you want Bitcoin right away, your best bet is to buy it, a process that's never been easier, especially if you're lucky enough to have a Bitcoin ATM near you.
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People won't make money mining bitcoin from Tiger Direct purchases, they will make money mining Scrypt coins like Litecoin.
I agree Folding@Home has its place, but this is humanity, it is run by greed nowadays... Especially in the broke times we're living in now thanks to greedy bankers and corporations.
The same corporations wanting to access a network of computers "for science" are the ones using the public resources to find new drugs to sell to the people at high prices, instead of for free. I may not know much about FAH, but are products derived from the distributed (free?) computing power giving back results in free cures?
Bitcoin divides into very small fractions, are limited (unlike most every world currency) and easily exchanged. Don't try to lessen its usability please
I clearly criticized fiat currencies and the central banks that print them. I guess some people only see what they want to see.
But to answer your question, yes, my money got, I mean has, a physical presence. It may not have a physical value, but I can pick it up, hold it, roll around in it. It may just be paper, but it has a physical presence. That is comforting to people, and that is something a bitcoin does not have, by design I might add. I don't know if humans will ever get away from physical money.
Well, ultimately the responsibility lies on the public who voted in bigger and more powerful governments who empower the banks and corporations. Criticizing banks and corporations for being greedy is like criticizing a dog for barking at cars. It is just part of what makes them tick.
The people however, they should have known better. A government will never be able to do more for you than you can for yourself. They are inherently corrupt and inefficient. You are responsible for your safety. You are responsible for your success. Choosing a government as your advocate and protector is like making a deal with the devil. People are not inherently lazy, while governments are inherently corrupt and banks and corporations are inherently greedy. It is for that reason the public deserves blame.
I see you haven't gotten past the Left-Right paradigm.
First, Fox News is simply the neoconservative big government alternative to the main stream media. They beat the government is your protector and savior drum all day long. Deer kill more people than terrorists, but we have made countless new three letter agencies and have spent over $2 trillion on foreign wars, all to supposedly save us from this enemy who is less dangerous than deer. This is clearly the exact opposite of what I was suggesting.
As far as your idiotic Reagan comment goes, Reagan was hardly for small government. He increased the size and scope of government more than every president before him combined. Accounting for inflation, Reagen increased the Federal budget more than even Obama has. I would like to point out that less than 10% of Reagan's increase to the federal budget went to defense spending. Reagan even passed more damaging gun control legislation than any Democrat president ever did with the Firearm Owners Protection Act, AKA the machine gun ban. Small government? That is the last word I would use to describe Reagan.
Still, the economic troubles we are having now have little to do with Reagan's policies. If you want to blame a Republican, blame Richard Nixon. He did more damage to the US economy than any other recent president with his creation of the EPA. Go try to fart without the EPA getting involved.
You need to move past this Left-Right paradigm. You are being played for the fool that you are. Have you noticed Obama has been a near perfect carbon copy of Bush? From war to socialized medicine, it's like they are on one big team. The meaningless social issues that get you so angry are designed to do so. So while you are busy hating the other side, you fail to see that the other side and your side are working on something bigger.