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obiwanjabroni50 · ‎09-29-2013

Hello ebay and Community, ebay has become such a fact of my families life from my 66yr old father to my 18yr old daughter. It was such an exciting time when I started contacting a seller in Shanghai asking questsions regarding the deal. It was one of our first purchases and it was iternational and we didn't know to expect. It was so exciting when that Start Trek box set of dvds arrived we all couldn't believe that it was from so far away with like 5 days. We all realized that day that thanks to ebay our world became a little smaller which was truly for the better and realized how ebay was connecting us with the world marketplace.

Then my family found out about bitcoin we and realized this is the next positive world wide step and strengthen those ties with and with buyers and sellers as it becomes more accepted which has happened a lot faster than early predictions. I just see Bitcoin and ebay would work very well for sellers and buyers as another payment option. Well from 18yr old daughters first Xbox360 purchased on ebay and my wife baby phat stuff to lens for my father's fishing polarized lenses for his Oakley to my hockey card, and oakley's dvd's etc. Having the option to pay with bitcoin would be awesome for us. So please, I hope you will really see this as an important step ahead in technology and pay processes. So thanks for listening and PLEASE ADOPT AND DISCUSS WITH PAPAL A BITCOIN AS ANOTHER PAYMENT OPTION (by the way the caps were for importance not yelling) -Customers since the early day and happy costumer, lets get ahead of the curve and adopt Bitcoin.

pierrelebel · ‎09-29-2013

I am glad to read that you and your family had great experiences buying on eBay!

However, Bitcoin is NOT something for eBay sellers. It is a form of speculation that may be of interest to some but certainly not most and could never be recommended by eBay.

For example:

The USD price of a bitcoin reached an all time high of $230 on 9 April 2013, up from just $13 at the start of the year. Among the factors which may have contributed to this rise were the European sovereign-debt crisis—particularly the 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis—statements by FinCEN improving the currency's legal standing and rising media and Internet interest.

As the market valuation of the total stock of Bitcoins approached $1 billion USD, some commentators called Bitcoin prices a bubble. In early April 2013, the price per bitcoin dropped from $266 to around $50 and then rose to around $100. Over two weeks starting late June 2013 the price dropped steadily to $70 ending around $80. Refer to online sources for more recent events.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

femmefan1946 · ‎10-01-2013

And I have some Bre-X stock I should probably list ......

pierrelebel · ‎10-03-2013

U.S. agents shut down the notorious Silk Road site, where hackers and drug dealers sold their illegal wares using Bitcoins, and arrested founder Ross William Ulbricht this week on charges of money laundering, conspiracy to commit drug trafficking and other crimes.

Though it’s long been associated with the nefarious transactions on Silk Road, the vast majority of Bitcoin usage actually has nothing to do with criminal activity. And companies active in the fast-growing, legitimate side of the market welcomed the crackdown.

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/bitcoin-crackdown-could-lead-bitcoin-resurgence-19574267...

",,, The sometimes volatile price for a Bitcoin initially took a dive on the Silk Road news. After the announcement of Ulbricht's arrest on Wednesday, the value of a Bitcoin traded on the Mt. Gox exchange in Tokyo dropped by more than 20% to as low as $110 from $140, before closing at $124. But a day later, the price had bounced back to $130.

Those fluctuations are minor compared to the bounces in April, when fears of a European economic and currency collapse sent the Bitcoin market into a frenzy. The value of a Bitcoin skyrocketed to $266 then plunged to $40 in a matter of days."