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Re:The 21 Bitcoin Computer by tvladeck on Monday September 21, 2015 @04:47PM (#10255028)
I actually don't think a marketer touched this project at all.

If one did, they didn't do a great job defining the purpose of this device. They didn't talk - or if they did, they didn't listen - to potential customers about what pain point this could solve. They didn't define a positioning for this product. Etc.

Sell goods for BTC? What about Stripe / Braintree?

Buy goods w/ BTC? What about buying BTC on Coinbase?

Mine BTC? There are more economical ways.

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Re:The 21 Bitcoin Computer by akhilcacharya on Monday September 21, 2015 @10:05PM (#10256278)
The only real value of 21's product is power efficient mining. I'm bewildered as to why they would focus on the buying or selling aspect.
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Re:The 21 Bitcoin Computer by fit2rule on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @05:41AM (#10257577)
Because this thing contains everything you need to operate in the Bitcoin economy at all levels - mining, purchasing, selling BtC - in a smart little easy to install package.

So I'm a small business owner in .. lets say, Morocco, or .. Laos, or Sao Paolo, and I want to stop using US$ to purchase stuff from China.

This makes it very, very easy to do that.

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