Roger Ver, a.k.a. "Bitcoin Jesus," is on a mission to get Bitcoin into the big time:
"What sort of bounty is still available if I can convince the following company to accept Bitcoins publicly on their website?
Publicly traded on the Nasdaq
Stock price currently over $40
Market cap of over $500,000,000
Anual sales of over $300,000,000
Worldwide customer base.
Would greatly benefit from accepting Bitcoins as a payment method."
Leveraging off the huge advantages of using Bitcoin for micro-payments, CoinWorker allows individuals or businesses to easily compensate others for performing tasks on their behalf.
First Restaurant Delivery Service to Accept Bitcoins
GrubGo Restaurant Delivery Service announced today that they will be accepting Bitcoins as an alternative payment method. Their mission is to bring together two of the best things that Saint Louis has to offer, its food and its people. By accepting Bitcoins, GrubGo has shown their dedication to staying on the forefront of technology. Founders Gary Tripp and Matt Hanley have built the business as a hospitality company first, a marketing company second, and a technologies company third. By utilizing an easy to use online ordering system the GrubGo team delivers a wide selection of items from steak to sushi and groceries to candy bars, from local, independently owned and operated establishments.
Bitcoin is the newest type of digital currency. It means that currency can be sent through the Internet from one person to another without ever passing through the hands of a third party. What makes this possible is a network via the internet, formed from the computers or smartphones of all bitcoin users. GrubGo, the St. Louis based company, works with many restaurants and utilizes technology to streamline the ordering and food delivery process. With plans for expansion into Chicago and other Midwest markets, GrubGo is really 'bringing something to the table'.
-- Matthew Hanley Director of Operations GrubGo Restaurant Delivery Service
In 1994, Danny Hillis gave a TED talk centered on the idea that human beings were embarking on a rapid, computer-enabled stage of their evolution, where change was happening at an exponential rate. What he couldn't pinpoint, however, was the final destination of that change.
Fast-forward 18 years later, and the end-state of this stage of our evolution has become a little clearer. Robert Tercek touches on it nicely:
Specifically, in the last year or so, platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit have begun to demonstrate that they are incredible tools for enabling the global collective consciousness. A protest in Egypt is no longer a story told on the BBC that you pick up on your shortwave radio. The story is instead told in real-time by the protesters themselves, with videos, pictures, and words. The mainstream media has also begun using social media as its primary reporting tool (and making itself redundant in the process). More recently, the SOPA fiasco showed the US government that it can no longer pass laws in the shadows of secure government buildings where previously only hand-picked media puppets could "report" on the comings and goings of elected officials. The global collective consciousness is demanding transparency and accountability, and world governments are beginning to take it seriously.
Don't let stories of social media "addiction" shame you into stepping away from your computer. There's nothing wrong with fulfilling a desire to be part of something bigger than yourself. The fact that you realize this, either consciously or unconsciously, simply means that you're evolving with your fellow humans to the next chapter in our story. Whether this will all lead to borders falling, poverty disappearing, and some sort of Star Trek utopia remains to be seen, but we're certainly headed in the right direction.
Btcurl.com has just rolled out an elegantly simple advertising service. If you want to drive traffic to your site, simply go to btcurl.com and generate an affiliate link. Post the link to your site and encourage others to link to your site using your affiliate link (with their Bitcoin address inserted into the link).
Btcurl will then generate a report of which links are generating traffic for your site, and you can optionally pay your most effective affiliates to encourage them to continue advertising for you!
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"We have a general morality gap, we are over-leveraged, we have neglected to invest in the future, we have undermined social coherence, and we are in danger of completely losing the confidence of future generations," said Klaus Schwab, host and founder of the annual World Economic Forum.
"Solving problems in the context of outdated and crumbling models will only dig us deeper into the hole. "We are in an era of profound change that urgently requires new ways of thinkinginstead of more business-as-usual," the 73-year-old said, adding that "capitalism in its current form, has no place in the world around us."
Phelix from bitcoinx.com has posted one of the best Bitcoin charts I've ever seen, and it speaks volumes:
See Phelix's post for a full explanation. The important stats to take away are:
- The total order book (bids and asks combined), as depicted in the middle graph, is near a peak for the last month;
- Bid depth is near a record high for the last month (bottom graph, blue line, ~1.5 million USD), nearly double what it was prior to the start of the last rally from $3.00;
- Ask depth is crashing rapidly (bottom graph, red line, ~1.3 million USD);
From the above, it's clearly just a matter of time before a new rally kicks off to push us past the pesky $7.20 resistance. This is a great buying opportunity that will probably disappear within 48 hours.
