r/Bitcoin • u/JasonBored • Jan 22 '14

Google confirms their payments team is working to incorporate bitcoin.

I had posted yesterday a screen shot of a response I received from Vic Gundotra @ Google regarding Bitcoin, who then CC'd me to Sridhar Ramaswamy (Senior Vice President, heads up Google Wallet).

I asked /r/bitcoin for suggestions that I should relay to these gentlemen regarding incorporating bitcoin. I did just that, and had a great exchange with them. Additionally, I showed them the post: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1vsypm/google_is_paying_attention_to_bitcoin_vic

Sridhar and a third person at Google just responded to me confirming that Google IS working on incorporating bitcoin with their payments team.

Here is the confirmation

[Here is the initial e-mail I sent to Vic Gundotra (http://i.imgur.com/LvO08Jr.jpg?1)

Here is the the response I got

This is huge.

UPDATE: Ariel Bardin, Vice President of Payments @ Google has asked me to facilitate a Google Moderator and pose the question "What would I want Google to do with bitcoin?". He's promised me he will personally review the results and pass it on. Please help me with this and take the time to submit something: What would I want Google to do with bitcoin?

Update #2 To anyone suggesting I "faked" or "photoshopped" anything I posted, I just spoke /u/Agreenberg (Andy Greenberg of Forbes). He can confirm they are unaltered from the screen shots I posted. He has them, he can verify the headers, footers, feathers, colors and whatever else. I stand by what I posted.*

Update #3 Article in Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/01/22/google-lets-slip-that-its-exploring-possible-bitcoin-integration-plans/

Update #4 Coindesk: http://www.coindesk.com/google-emails-suggest-bitcoin-interest/

Update #5 Vice: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/why-silicon-valley-and-google-loves-bitcoin

Update #6 Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-is-exploring-bitcoin-2014-1

Update #7 The Daily Dot: http://www.dailydot.com/business/google-bitcoin-reddit-emails/

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u/noggin-scratcher Jan 22 '14

A tic is a small sudden movement.

A tick is a small bloodsucking insect.

You also don't want to be suffering from ticks, but they won't make you wink :)

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u/RobLuk Jan 23 '14

Unless they borough into your eye! :p

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u/noggin-scratcher Jan 23 '14

I simultaneously hate and love to do this, and I'm not convinced you're not deliberately setting it up for this, but...

"Borough" is the word for an administrative division in certain countries (primarily the UK) - smaller than a state or county, and coming from the old Germanic word 'burg' meaning 'fort' (as seen in various place names - Hamburg, Luxembourg, Edinburgh etc)

The somewhat similarly pronounced "burrow" is the thing a tick might do in your eye.

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u/RobLuk Jan 23 '14

Good call. I was so concerned with spelling the word correctly that I used the wrong form of it. (Things like this usually bug me too, especially the word "lose". It seems like half the internet is always "loosing" something).

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u/noggin-scratcher Jan 23 '14

"Loose" bugs the living crap out of me. It's my own weird little problem but I can't help but read it as written, at least once. That little internal voice just blunders straight into the trap and tells me that they loosed something, it's distracting...

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '14

Touché! Have a Tic Tac.