Bitcoins have become a serious currency recently with millions of dollars being made for a few individuals on their meteoric rise. You can do your bricks and mortar based shopping with bitcoins in some parts of the world already.
Seems to me Amazon have a long term objective of controlling a real world currency. We will all be saluting the corporate flags, soon.
p.s. rather a shameless self-promotion of your page, lol.
I stick to actual money. Boutique currencies always seem to be more trouble than they are worth.
I am reasonably certain that the US government is going to fall on Bitcoins like a ton of bricks in the not too distant future. Same with Amazon if Amazon continues its endeavors along these lines. Not saying whether it is right or wrong. Just saying it's going to happen.
by Ken Kline 14 years ago
Has anyone used Coinstar at Walmart? Did you see a price before using the machine? I hunted and hunted but to no avail - please help - is it just me - did I miss the price of changing money from coin to currency?
by Jose Juan Gutierrez 8 years ago
What do you know about bitcoins?Have you earned bitcoins on a site? If so, what can you tell about bitcoins?
by Dean Walsh 10 years ago
Since we hubbers are making our money here digitally, it would be great if Hubpages could send us payments from the ad program in digital currency using Bitcoin, or even better Ripple.Either of these would have lower transaction costs for Hubpages compared to paypal (Ripple is cheapest, at around...
by Brie Hoffman 7 years ago
There is a new social media site where you can post articles and photo's called steemit.com and you can make a good amount of money on it.
by cashmere 11 years ago
What exactly is Bitcoin and how does it work?I've heard of a new currency which is not country specific but is being used online to make payements. Its called Bitcoin, but I have no idea how to use it and how you make it work. Do you know more about it?
by Don W 15 years ago
I am signed up as an afiliate with amazon.co.uk, but amazon capsules on hubpages always display prices in US dollars. Is this set by hubpages as the default?
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