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Re: OKCupid starts accepting Bitcoin using Coinbase

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Post by imgabe »

krichman wrote: post #22
lbarrow wrote: post #9

This seems like a great idea, since people who are into BitCoin are likely to use online dating services.

I thought this was funny, but downvoted because it was also rude and unproductive. I wish we could talk about Bitcoin without saying either 1. that its expected value is negative infinity dollars and pyramid tulip 2. that its expected value is infinity dollars and oppression fiat. I think both sides are well aware of the counter arguments. But even though that will never happen, I think we can stop short of allowing…

Is "uses an online dating service" still an ad hominem? It seems to be a pretty widely used way to meet people these days.

Re: OKCupid starts accepting Bitcoin using Coinbase

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Post by jeffasinger »

rdl wrote: post #27

I wish there were a simple-as-Stripe way to outsource multiple payment options for customers (BTC, cards, ACH, etc.). I guess technically you could use PayPal or maybe Amazon Payments for that, but I don't think they're particularly likely to support Bitcoin anytime soon.

Spreedly comes pretty close to this actually, and they're much more likely to support working with something like CoinBase for BTC soon.

Re: OKCupid starts accepting Bitcoin using Coinbase

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Post by [deleted] »

krichman wrote: post #22
lbarrow wrote: post #9

This seems like a great idea, since people who are into BitCoin are likely to use online dating services.

I thought this was funny, but downvoted because it was also rude and unproductive. I wish we could talk about Bitcoin without saying either 1. that its expected value is negative infinity dollars and pyramid tulip 2. that its expected value is infinity dollars and oppression fiat. I think both sides are well aware of the counter arguments. But even though that will never happen, I think we can stop short of allowing…

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Re: OKCupid starts accepting Bitcoin using Coinbase

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Post by woah »

InclinedPlane wrote: post #37
krichman wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought this was funny, but downvoted because it was also rude and unproductive. I wish we could talk about Bitcoin without saying either 1. that its expected value is negative infinity dollars and pyramid tulip 2. that its expected value is infinity dollars and oppression fiat. I think both sides are well aware of the counter arguments. But even though that will never happen, I think we can stop short of allowing…

Trying to write off the discussion of the speculative bubble nature of bitcoin as "just one side of a polarized debate" is, to my mind, grossly immature. Speculation and runaway inflation are things that are commonplace with currencies and investments, and for a sound currency there very much needs to be a robust and thorough debate on those topics. It does need to be discussed to death. If the argument of bitcoin pr…

I think that we can all be pretty certain that inflation is not, and will never be, a problem with bit coin.

Re: OKCupid starts accepting Bitcoin using Coinbase

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Post by rdl »

muyuu wrote: post #56
rdl wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish there were a dating site mainly for nerds, really. I don't know how you could maintain that.

The gender imbalance would be massive, as it used to be.

Not a problem for 5-10% (or more?) of the potential audience.

Re: OKCupid starts accepting Bitcoin using Coinbase

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Post by ios84dev »

chimeracoder wrote: post #60
jmtame wrote: post #35

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Funny things happen when companies get acquired. They stop acting like a startup and they start acting like large, slow companies, which is unfortunate. That blog was single-handedly what drove their traffic more than anything. Everyone I talk to said they found out about OkCupid through that blog. OkCupid knows this. The founders said they almost quit and that blog was their saving grace. Is it any coincidence that…

> Is it any coincidence that the blog stopped around the same time they were acquired? It served its purpose and ran its course. They're done innovating in the space. We'll have to let startups lead the next wave of innovation in online dating. First, I used to work on the OkTrends team, but I'm speaking for myself, not on behalf of OkCupid. OkTrends didn't shut down after the acquisition - in fact, they made two pos…

To be fair, from what I recall while I was there, the blog was also instead of paying for a PR firm and having Sam going on morning talk shows that didn't really hit our demographic or help our growth much. So once we got bought the need for it did decrease a lot.

I heard there is a book containing a lot of similar information coming out though.

Re: OKCupid starts accepting Bitcoin using Coinbase

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Post by neurobro »

woah wrote: post #64
InclinedPlane wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trying to write off the discussion of the speculative bubble nature of bitcoin as "just one side of a polarized debate" is, to my mind, grossly immature. Speculation and runaway inflation are things that are commonplace with currencies and investments, and for a sound currency there very much needs to be a robust and thorough debate on those topics. It does need to be discussed to death. If the argument of bitcoin pr…

I think that we can all be pretty certain that inflation is not, and will never be, a problem with bit coin.

While there's some deflation built in as keys get lost and the economy grows, periods of inflation are still possible as bitcoin billionaires start going on shopping sprees.

Re: OKCupid starts accepting Bitcoin using Coinbase

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Post by muyuu »

rdl wrote: post #65
muyuu wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The gender imbalance would be massive, as it used to be.

Not a problem for 5-10% (or more?) of the potential audience.

gk2gk is not a huge success because straight males usually prefer females, even if they are not geeks.

Your potential audience is not tiny but it isn't massive either.

Re: OKCupid starts accepting Bitcoin using Coinbase

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Post by rdl »

muyuu wrote: post #68
rdl wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not a problem for 5-10% (or more?) of the potential audience.

gk2gk is not a huge success because straight males usually prefer females, even if they are not geeks. Your potential audience is not tiny but it isn't massive either.

Aside from the non-heterosexual market being large, there are two other factors:

1) JDate allegedly has nots of non-Jewish people on the site who are looking to date Jews. I mean, it makes sense -- it's a great place to find them :) Maybe there are non-geeks who are looking to date geeks.

2) My definition of nerd/geek goes beyond programming. A professional (in law or medicine or engineering) is probably way more interesting than a .NET corporate programmer. I could see "career/lifestyle tags" working for this.

Arguably it wouldn't even need to be limited to geeky activities, but general interest interests as well. Maybe someone really likes backpackers, or people who have completed Bioshock Infinite, or corporate M&A lawyers, or people from Surrey. Having verified tags for those things would make searches more interesting.

Re: OKCupid starts accepting Bitcoin using Coinbase

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Post by rdl »

jmtame wrote: post #41
rdl wrote: post #39

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It would be interesting to have a site (dating or HR or commentary) where you could have specific facts/tags in a profile and some serious checking of those specific facts. e.g. for a dating site you'd have "less than 300 pounds", "graduated from Stanford", "not married", "hivfree" for an HR site you'd have "not a CISSP", "graduated from Caltech in 2000 in CS", "US Citizen", "worked for Google 2000-2004", etc. Indivi…

This is something that needs to exist, and I'm very excited about it. We may build this at CupidWithFriends. I've thought about tags for a while now, the problem is you don't have an identity layer to actually verify whether the tags are true or not. Think LinkedIn endorsements, but for dating. Lying is a huge problem, 81% of all online dating users will lie about some aspect of themselves. I wrote this comment befor…

I'm not really in the dating market at all, but if you could figure out how to do this for HR or social/hacking/friendship/etc., I'd be really interested.

Being able to find a set of N people who are into ancap/lib ideas if not politics, blinded tokens, HSMs, and are within a 100 mi radius of X would be interesting.

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