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Yes and maybe. Yes, just like there was a bubble when it broke $200 in April 2013 and it came back down. Maybe, just like there was a bubble when it broke $200 in April 2013, came back down and continued rising beyond the $200 point.


So, I own investment real estate that I wouldn't mind selling for bitcoins. Is there a good place to find buyers who want to pay with Bitcoin?


Most people, for good reason, use an escrow agent when buying and selling real estate (at least here in the US). As a buyer, I would be doubly uncertain about directly transferring someone Bitcoin since it's at least as irreversible as a processed wire, and probably harder to have good legal recourse for. If you can find someone who would do escrow with Bitcoin, you'd probably have better luck.


You'll also need to pay any titling, fees, insurance, and taxes in USD.


Take a look at BitPremier: http://www.bitpremier.com/. They advertise your high-value good on their site, and then once they pair you up with a buyer they also serve as an escrow agency.


Why would you care about in which currency you are paid?


It's not easy to buy $500,000 worth of bitcoins on the open market at "current value".


Someone bought ~$1mm on gox a few days ago without too much trouble I think


They did, but it sparked a frenzy of buying shortly afterwards...


Cost of conversion would be a potential reason.


Right, if there are supposedly buyers from abroad who want to buy, we can save money in currency conversions and transfers across borders.


Doesn't even have to be "from abroad" - if a buyer has a stack of bitcoins and I want a stack of bitcoins, going through an exchange is going to be expensive given the pretty broad spreads (if there's even the necessary liquidity).


The quality of Quora's ecosystem should not be judged by it's signup wall.


Yes it should. An ecosystem is just that, the whole thing. Some golden nuggets wrapped in excrement is still a ball of excrement.


The above comment looks flagged, But I seriously don't know why.


Launch soon could be nice, maybe do a partnership with some themeforest designers to cross promote.


Very impressed with your NFL data tool, check out this company, they may be interested in your technology: http://www.hudl.com/


Beautiful landing page. When I click "sign up for free" the "begin selling now" text was on the bottom third of my screen, should be in the middle or at the top.


Thanks! And good call, I just pushed a fix for that.


In Israel the first "devbootcamp" is being held in Python. http://10x.org.il


I have seen a new Toyota Prius running Anroid myself. You can plug in a sim card and use Waze. Just awesome. I hope the trend keeps growing.


And the sim card was just a duplicate of the person's regular line, of course only one could be used for calls at a given time.


Great points.


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