Bit-Dating Has Arrived: OK Cupid Now Accepts Bitcoin

At the end of the day, the ultimate value of Bitcoin will have nothing to do with speculators or DDOS attacks.  The ultimate value of Bitcoin will be determined by end market adoption, which despite the dramatic rise and fall in recent weeks, appears to be continuing at an extremely rapid clip.  I supported Bitcoin publicly when it was only trading at 10, well before the recent run-up and mainstream financial media hype.  I support it just as much today as I did then, and I think the prospects have never looked better for the crypto-currency than right now.

In the latest news, we discover the OK Cupid dating site has decided to accept it as payment.  From Forbes:

As a company whose business proposition has gone from kind of weird to utterly commonplace in the space of a few years, OK Cupid has always been comfortable with novelty. Now it’s embracing a new technology that strikes a lot of people as too futuristic for comfort: Bitcoin.

Starting today, premium users of the IAC-owned dating service can pay for their subscriptions with the untraceable peer-to-peer digital currency.

OK Cupid CEO Sam Yagan says this is a forward-looking move, driven not by user demand but by the imperative to embrace a technology that’s not going away.

“There’s no question that these digital currencies are going to be the future,” he says. “Whether it’s actually the form of Bitcoins or evolves into something else, we want to be out in front.  We want to be the ones who have the experience. There’s a lot to learn.”

Full article here.

In Liberty,
Mike

Follow me on Twitter!

Like this post?
Donate bitcoins: 35DBUbbAQHTqbDaAc5mAaN6BqwA2AxuE7G


Follow me on Twitter.

1 thought on “Bit-Dating Has Arrived: OK Cupid Now Accepts Bitcoin”

Leave a Reply