NOTE: This is a blog post about 2013 promotion. The 2014 promo post is here!
I bet you've heard about Bitcoin — a new internet currency that is taking the world by storm. Invented in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto, for a few years it remained a niche project — developed by enthusiastic developers, supported by a very small but strong community, now seems to be ready to revolutionize internet payments. There has not been a single financial or economics new source that would not mention Bitcoin in the last few months.
Now the real news — we are excited to announce that Wikidot joins the Bitcoin marketplace and
you can now pay for Wikidot upgrades with Bitcoin!
There's more: if you upgrade or prolong your Wikidot account between now and Sun, 8th Dec and pay with Bitcoin you
save 50% on all upgrades!!!
We hope that accepting Bitcoin is not only an awesome news for our current and future users, but we deeply believe we can help growing the economy based on digital currencies.
How to pay with Bitcoin? Visit the upgrade panel and complete the checkout. Select Bitcoin as a payment method and make a transfer to the address displayed. To make things easier, we provide a QR code for easy payment with mobile devices and link with "bitcoin:" schema for desktop wallets too. If you are familiar with Bitcoin it's nothing new.
Need to learn more about Bitcoin? Check out the official website at Bitcoin.org or watch this introduction video.
How to get Bitcoins quickly? Try Coinbase if you are in US. Bitstamp works well if you are in Europe. There are several exchanges around the globe where you can buy Bitcoins. You might need a wallet to store your new Bitcoin — either on your computer (check out Multibit) or on-line (Blockchain.info wallets are OK).
We wish you Happy Black Friday and many great deals!
The Wikidot Team
P.S. Check out the Bitcoin Black Friday website to find other great Bitcoin deals today!
Hm… I must admit I have never heard of this, but at the first glance, it looks like something that it might be very useful for me. I checked the video, but I still have some doubts: I get the bitcoins spending part, but how do you earn bitcoins? I mean, you have to earn them first in order to be able to spend them. Then, how much is it worth? What is exchange rate for for example, Euro, or US Dollar? in order to anyone accept this currency, it has to have some value like real money…
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegan. - Paul McCartney
I know this new currency code ( not (yet) using it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin )
Brunhilda - key in Bitcoin on google and you will get 100's of addresses to "buy" bitcoin.
Or you take the longer way and EARN bitcoin with lot of work on computers.
But at the moment the currency exchange rate of bitcoin to other world currencies is growing faster and faster.
I know that at the moment E-bay is thinking of accepting bitcoin for payments too.
Good idea Michal - but what are you doing than later with all the bitcoin's ?
Service is my success. My webtips:www.blender.org (Open source), Wikidot-Handbook.
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I know that I can BUY them. I was wonderng how they can be EARNED…
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegan. - Paul McCartney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j7opj5-32hw
You open your PC ( depends on your chip's hpw fast they are ) for other server to use them…
Service is my success. My webtips:www.blender.org (Open source), Wikidot-Handbook.
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Brunhilda, "earning", or rather "mining" was useful when the Bitcoin world was small enough. Right now to mine bitcoin you need to literally spend thousands of dollars on dedicated hardware designed only to mine Bitcoin. And you can never be sure your investment will pay back.
It is much safer just to purchase BTC right now. The thing is that most people buy Bitcoins as investment only (a really good one so far), but if Bitcoin is to deliver the promise of the "next generation payment", there needs to be a market where you can actually spend them and use as "normal" currency.
Wordpress.com has been accepting Bitcoin for about half a year now, quite many services and local stores do it too.
Bitcoin is still young, but honestly, as an internet payment method — it rocks! Much easier than PayPal or credit card payments. The issue is it is still pretty difficult to get Bitcoin to enter the market, but it's getting better.
Michał Frąckowiak @ Wikidot Inc.
Visit my blog at michalf.me
I want the discount, but I have no interest in Bitcoin.
Jan Goossenaerts
@collaboratewiki
Agree with janbmgo, your fee should be "payment agnostic" or "payment independent".
Here John Gruber quote about Bitcoin from China, and the Soaring Price of Bitcoin:
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/11/28/china-bitcoid
Nice job incorporating BTC payment, it is so easy. I missed the 50% sale but took the 15% offer :)
Where hvae you seen a 15% offer?
Am I missing something?
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Notice the "Save 15%" with Bitcoin". This is good for Wikidot too, since Paypal and Visa/Mastercard charge transaction fees, whereas it costs nothing to accept BTC directly, and only a negligible/or zero amount to convert to USD.
It is hidden in the payment method!
Thanks for showing this!
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Do you still have those bitcoins from those years?
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