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Originally Posted by Chazley
Kilowatt, I am behind you on 99% of everything you do regarding Lock and I appreciate all of it, however one bit of criticism regarding the bitcoins issue: Shane has acknowledged they are 'strongly considering' adding bitcoins. This is a HUGE deal. The part I differ from you is, instead of taking the 'you wont' taunting route, instead we should be start putting a ton of pressure on Lock to start allowing bitcoins as a cashout option, and at every opportunity seize on what he said.
I realize you're probably laughing at that last paragraph because it means we are taking what Shane says at face value (which should instead be at the USD/Lock value after his blatant Portugal lie), but we now have statements from Shane and from the top, Jen Larson, that Bitcoins are being strongly considered. As a community we need to let it be known that we all WANT bitcoins, instead of taking the condescending tone in this particular instance.
And thanks for everything you've done re:Lock.
The story on G911 on bitcoins actually caught be by surprise since the last time I had spoken to Jen about it seemed a long way off. When the story broke I reached out to find out how serious we were about it and she indicated we were comfortable with bitcoin as a legitimate solution now and we had moved onto investigating the logistics of how we could best make it work for us.
We have obviously seen the debates on here about the rooms probably not wanting to hold onto bit coins, wanting to purchase them as the cashout is processed. This is fairly labour intensive for us, a processor is the preferred option. Which is of course why the recent action against a processor was slightly concerning. I have received no word that this has shot down any possibility of adding bitcoin as an option, it was just brought up in passing and is a situation we will monitor closely to see if it really does affect our decision in a meaningful way.
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Originally Posted by Kilowatt
Sweet that Shane ignored all of my questions.
I guess that's because he embarrassed himself last time he answered one of my questions (the one about Portugal), so now he's just choosing to ignore me.
Actually a forum poster was kind enough to send me some links detailing some interesting situations involving your forums and rather than continually respond to your pseudo-policing its clear a better use of my time is to focus on helping our actual customers.
As for the Portugal comment Im far from embarrassed. It was my job to deflect that, it was important that we didnt have public discussions on where the entire team was. Thankfully your information was slightly off stating that it had started something like 4 days prior when in fact we had only just arrived in Portugal so I used that as a way to deflect rather than be forced into a direct lie.
I didnt like having to mislead the community but it was more important that we didnt publicise the fact that our management and partners were all meeting together. This was no different to the first retreat a couple of years ago, the details remained secret till after the event.