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Circle opens doors to global audience

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Re: Circle opens doors to global audience

#21

Post by spoonerVille »

dabeeeenster wrote: post #6

This homepage is fucking terrible. HOW CAN I USE YOUR PRODUCT? What do I need? Credit card? Bitcoin address? Fiat bank account? PayPal? Is it a joke? "We believe in intuitive design and excellent customer support"! A design so intuitive I have no fucking idea what the hell is going on. Oh but you have some big depth of field photos of hot 19 year old girls on a beach. Brilliant. Just tell me in 1 sentence what you do…

from their site it's obvious what circle is: bitcoin for hip young white people

Re: Circle opens doors to global audience

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Post by dabeeeenster »

corv wrote: post #13
dabeeeenster wrote: post #6

This homepage is fucking terrible. HOW CAN I USE YOUR PRODUCT? What do I need? Credit card? Bitcoin address? Fiat bank account? PayPal? Is it a joke? "We believe in intuitive design and excellent customer support"! A design so intuitive I have no fucking idea what the hell is going on. Oh but you have some big depth of field photos of hot 19 year old girls on a beach. Brilliant. Just tell me in 1 sentence what you do…

Have you considered that engaging customers on an emotional level might be more effective than doing so in a utilitarian way?

You can't be serious?

Re: Circle opens doors to global audience

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Post by dabeeeenster »

spoonerVille wrote: post #21
dabeeeenster wrote: post #6

This homepage is fucking terrible. HOW CAN I USE YOUR PRODUCT? What do I need? Credit card? Bitcoin address? Fiat bank account? PayPal? Is it a joke? "We believe in intuitive design and excellent customer support"! A design so intuitive I have no fucking idea what the hell is going on. Oh but you have some big depth of field photos of hot 19 year old girls on a beach. Brilliant. Just tell me in 1 sentence what you do…

from their site it's obvious what circle is: bitcoin for hip young white people

But it just says at the bottom:

WHY BITCOIN? Bitcoin is a secure, global form of digital money. Brilliant minds developed and support it. People around the world use it. It provides a foundation for technologies that make money more powerful every day. The future of money begins with Bitcoin.

So that tells me precisely nothing.

Re: Circle opens doors to global audience

#25

Post by saturdayplace »

davidw wrote: post #3

I'm afraid people (regular people - not the HN following sort of people) are going to start getting confused between all the Circles and Squares and Stripes and so on.

Meh. The word "Target" doesn't really carry any signal about what that company actually does. Ask yourself, in Target's infancy, did the name hurt or help them? I'd guess it had very little to do with their eventual outcome.

Re: Circle opens doors to global audience

#26

Post by wldcordeiro »

dabeeeenster wrote: post #22
corv wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you considered that engaging customers on an emotional level might be more effective than doing so in a utilitarian way?

You can't be serious?

Marketers do it all the time, it's a key component of most advertising and marketing campaigns. Still though, this site doesn't even execute that well.

Re: Circle opens doors to global audience

#29

Post by twostorytower »

anon0d wrote: post #19

How retarded is this, first of all, reading through their privacy terms, I barfed a bit. The reason people buy fucking bitcoin is to stay anon, with Circle, practically everybody down to your grandmother in the 3rd knee know that you just purchased bitcoins. Secondly, Circle, really? Was Square taken? I would prefer square. It's like making money on the face of stupid people. Very original.

"The reason people buy fucking bitcoin is to stay anon"

That's just one reason that somebody might use bitcoin. There's plenty of others.

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