Pay for Uber with Bitcoin

Re:Pay for Uber with Bitcoin by shazow on Thursday September 17, 2015 @04:51PM (#10235988)

> Anonymous business. No street address. Not in Dun and Bradstreet. "Private registration" domain. And they want you to deposit money with them. Yeah, right.

https://bitcoinbuilder.com/ full name of the founder is at the bottom of the page, Josh Jones (founder of Dreamhost).

You can look up the company "BITCOIN BUILDER, INC." here: http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/

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Re:Pay for Uber with Bitcoin by Animats on Thursday September 17, 2015 @05:27PM (#10236178)

Wow! An apartment half a block from the beach in Santa Monica! Wonder how this Bitcoin business makes enough money for that?

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Re:Pay for Uber with Bitcoin by dangero on Thursday September 17, 2015 @05:29PM (#10236187)

You must not be familiar with Dreamhost

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Re:Pay for Uber with Bitcoin by waterlesscloud on Thursday September 17, 2015 @07:33PM (#10236716)

Didn't he also buy up a lot of Gox's bitcoins at a steep discount once withdrawals became impossible? Essentially betting they'd eventually be worth something rather than nothing. I wonder if that's settled out, and if so how he did...

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Re:Pay for Uber with Bitcoin by zhoujianfu on Friday September 18, 2015 @12:33AM (#10237481)

It's not settled out yet, and he's also wondering how he did...

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Re:Pay for Uber with Bitcoin by danneu on Thursday September 17, 2015 @06:12PM (#10236390)

Owning a website does not mean it funds 100% of your life or makes any money at all for that matter.

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