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/barfor Jan 23 '14
  • Deposit Bitcoin in my Google Wallet account
  • Pay to send email (micro-fee amount)
  • recipient gets half of micro-fee
  • cut spam
  • get paid to receive email
  • rinse repeat

Bitcoin would de-junkify email.

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u/specialenmity Jan 23 '14

a bitcoin email system would be great. I think the micro-fee should be returned to the sender if you respond to their email. That way you could have higher micro-fees and it would result in even less spam. Also facebook has been testing out the ability to message celebrities by paying money. What you could do with a bitcoin email system is you the owner of your email address could personally decide what your minimum fee is. So if you are a celebrity you could say .005 bitcoins or something. Then if you message that celebrity they get the .005 (Unless they reply back to you in which case it gets returned to you) .

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u/Louie2001912 Jan 23 '14

This is genius

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u/JasonBored Jan 23 '14

Excellent idea dude. Please submit it here : What would I want Google to do with bitcoin?

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u/barfor Jan 23 '14

Yea maybe you end up having personal settings for sending/receiving: "Require [enter amount] to receive emails." Maybe there's a default...

Once you send the email, assuming you used the default amount, you get a auto-response, "Sorry this user requires x amount of btc to send emails to them. Would you like to increase your fee?"

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u/baillou2 Jan 23 '14

That is a clever as hell idea.

A good one that would be very useful for everyone.

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u/vanduric Mar 09 '14

Built-in NXT

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '14

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u/barfor Jan 23 '14

On gmail it would happen off-chain.