If you are sure it will keep going up at this pace, why not take everything you own, sell it, and invest in (or: speculate on) Bitcoin? That's not a rhetorical question.
Personally, given its volatility, it doesn't make much sense to me to hold much in Bitcoin outside of what you plan to spend relatively immediately. It could go up or down by 50% overnight - not a great store of value, either way.
isn't that equivalent to asking why anyone would be foolish enough to not have 100% of their money in bitcoins given its meteoric rise over the past few weeks?
There are reasons to not have all your money in bitcoins, therefore there are reasons to sell bitcoins (even if you just bought them specifically for that transaction (for the anonymity for example))
edit: I realised this sounds a bit snarky, but I'm honestly curious. Is buying with bitcoins really that different from not investing in bitcoins?
Definitely interesting, and more options are (in most cases) a good thing... the best application of this that's immediately obvious to me, though, is for financially successful devs/shops to mark one of their games for bitcoin income and use it as a test case.
I do hope, though, that it's not presented to small shops as being the same as [insert traditional currency here]; while it's certainly our own responsibility to be careful how we're paid, glossing over the realities of Bitcoin could end up with busy or otherwise inattentive devs accepting something that's just not the sure (or at least predictable) thing they need in terms of payment.
Unfortunately most users are annoyed by services like Heyzap and Openfeint. Ironically, Game Center seems to get out of the way the best, but is still pretty superfluous for a default app on a mobile operating system.
Exactly. It bugs me how much these types of services are making the front page of HN, considering that they only undermine video game quality for the sake of profit.
I wonder if you set a price amount in bitcoin or it just does a conversion between BTC and USD (or some other currency).
If you set a price in BTC then if there is a drop in value, you might find wake up the next day and find that lots of people took advantage of that as a way to dump their BTC and managed to buy your $10 game for $1.
I'm surprised so many people in the tech community have fallen for this Ponzi Scheme.
For example, many heard about "some guy bought a $25 pizza with 10,000 bitcoins", but no one has thought about what this means. It means someone now has that 10,000 "coins" (which is close to 2'000,000).
This also means someone had this amount (and possibly much more).
And, finally, no one questions who posseses the first "coins".
[+] [-] ajhit406|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] kurtko|13 years ago|reply
Personally, given its volatility, it doesn't make much sense to me to hold much in Bitcoin outside of what you plan to spend relatively immediately. It could go up or down by 50% overnight - not a great store of value, either way.
[+] [-] danielrhodes|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] shawabawa3|13 years ago|reply
There are reasons to not have all your money in bitcoins, therefore there are reasons to sell bitcoins (even if you just bought them specifically for that transaction (for the anonymity for example))
edit: I realised this sounds a bit snarky, but I'm honestly curious. Is buying with bitcoins really that different from not investing in bitcoins?
[+] [-] SilasX|13 years ago|reply
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5508031
[+] [-] obviouslygreen|13 years ago|reply
I do hope, though, that it's not presented to small shops as being the same as [insert traditional currency here]; while it's certainly our own responsibility to be careful how we're paid, glossing over the realities of Bitcoin could end up with busy or otherwise inattentive devs accepting something that's just not the sure (or at least predictable) thing they need in terms of payment.
[+] [-] mehrzad|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] Skoofoo|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] nwh|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] jiggy2011|13 years ago|reply
If you set a price in BTC then if there is a drop in value, you might find wake up the next day and find that lots of people took advantage of that as a way to dump their BTC and managed to buy your $10 game for $1.
[+] [-] BrokenPipe|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] myspace|13 years ago|reply
For example, many heard about "some guy bought a $25 pizza with 10,000 bitcoins", but no one has thought about what this means. It means someone now has that 10,000 "coins" (which is close to 2'000,000). This also means someone had this amount (and possibly much more).
And, finally, no one questions who posseses the first "coins".
That's why the creator is anonymous.
Just my 2 cents.