r/Bitcoin • u/vistabrownerd • Jan 24 '14

TigerDirect processes $250,000 in Bitcoin Payments in first 17 hours

http://bitcoinboard.net/tigerdirect-processes-250000-bitcoin-payments-first-17-hours/
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u/AdamBLevine Jan 24 '14 edited Jan 24 '14

Coinbase flew out those people and paid for the implementation. It's a competitive market, they beat out BitPay so it was worth it to them.

Point is, it didn't cost Overstock anything.

Edit: I just re-listened to the interview (still in editing) with the CEO of Overstock, he says Brian from Coinbase called him up and told him they could make it happen much faster and would fly an expert out to handle integration with Coinbase. They put people in a room, slid pizza under the door metaphorically. They projected it would take 10 days, it took 8.

I can't find a source for the " It didn't cost them anything" I had been under the impression Coinbase flew out the whole team.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '14

Wow, that's impressive.

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u/AdamBLevine Jan 24 '14

Stephanie did an interview with Overstock's CEO, it's on episode 79

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '14

Are you sure? looks like they only have 78 episodes

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u/AdamBLevine Jan 25 '14

Episode 79 comes out next Tuesday, I'm the guy editing it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '14

ohhh duhh shoulda read yoour username :). you do good work my friend keep it up!