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Airbnb: "We are not acquiring the assets of the company, nor do we have any plans to incorporate Bitcoin into the Airbnb ecosystem.” (cointelegraph.com)

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[–]finalhedge [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Paging /r/buttcoin

[–]TexasSteve3452345redditor for 3 months 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

I use airbnb to book a lot of rooms. I really do wish they would accept bitcoin.

[–]ctfn00b [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Was obvious to anyone that read the story yesterday

[–]--__--____--__-- 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

They just wanted some random employees, bs

[–]hoveringlurker 7ポイント8ポイント  (4子コメント)

Everybody will end up accepting Bitcoin. Fucking EVERYBODY.

[–]finalhedge [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

;)

[–]rydan -1ポイント0ポイント  (2子コメント)

AirBnb has a better chance of having a monopoly on housing than Bitcoin does on money.

[–]sQtWLgK [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

You are probably right, but take into account that they are not equivalent. AirBnb only has the network effect, but we can substitute it at no cost. The users of Bitcoin, however, are heavily invested stakeholders, up to the level of fanaticism (myself included).

[–]TheBitcoinArmy [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

you think they can take over letting agents for general living rentals?

[–]Hitchslappy 1ポイント2ポイント  (6子コメント)

If true, surely this is non-news?

[–]go1111111 [スコア非表示]  (5子コメント)

It's news because it confirms that the ChangeTip team was looking for a way to go out of business. Acquihires like this only happen when the team is pretty motivated to sell -- usually as a result of the company taking the initiative to try to sell itself.

It's another in a series of developments that suggest that it's really hard to make money in the Bitcoin space right now unless you're an exchange.

Wallet providers are either ceasing operations or transitioning their focus away from wallets (see Coinbase focusing on being an exchange)

Companies in the cryptocurrency space are chasing hard after the enterprise, permissioned blockchain market, suggesting that they don't see much opportunity in the Bitcoin space.

There are exceptions to this, for instance 21.co.

[–]errydaymofo [スコア非表示]  (3子コメント)

Honestly, I never even considered ChangeTip a business, always just thought of it as a little side project, I'm surprised they even managed to make a business out of it.

[–]BeastmodeBisky [スコア非表示]  (2子コメント)

Someone thought it had enough potential to hand them millions of dollars though.

[–]errydaymofo [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

Yeah, which was a dumb move because they overvalued it. Just because someone stupid invests a lot of money into something does not mean that something is worth a lot of money.

[–]saibog38 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Wallet providers are either ceasing operations or transitioning their focus away from wallets (see Coinbase focusing on being an exchange)

Agree with most of your point but I don't think Coinbase moving away from describing themselves as a wallet is a good example; I'm pretty sure that had mostly to do with the fact that the KYC/AML burden from their exchange status doesn't mix well with trying to be a wallet as well. You'll often hear people complaining about getting their account closed, but it's no good for Coinbase either if they have to ban users since they send money to a gambling site/darknet market/whatever because they're using Coinbase as their wallet.

[–]sunshinerag [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Airbnb: "We are not acquiring the assets of the company, nor do we have any plans to incorporate Bitcoin into the Airbnb ecosystem.”

Thank God. Crisis averted. without layer 2 solutions ready they could have just added more spam to the blockchain.

[–]ZionCluster 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

no? Your loss

[–]myedurseredditor for 9 days [スコア非表示]  (2子コメント)

So Airbnb are choosing to be the PayPal or MySpace of the sharing economy. After an initial attempt to move to a new decentralized internet-based system, an initial spur of innovation, they choose to get stuck in legacy systems.

Fair enough, PayPal have made a ton of money, but the future do not belong to them and they have ceded a wide open niche to whomever comes to take it, while the "facebook of money" is still waiting to be born (and it will be born on the blockchain), until they get swept away.

Airbnb (since it seems to prefer to comply with the old system rather than to keep disrupting and taking their initially disruptive idea to it's obvious conclusion) will be replaced with a decentralized, blockchain based successor that takes the p2p/sharing economy to it's full potential.

[–]zonky [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

tldr; decentralize all the things!

[–]Playful12redditor for 1 month [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

They brought on the Global Marketing guy from Coca-Cola. Talk aout legacy systems-thinking!

[–]bitcoinxbt -1ポイント0ポイント  (2子コメント)

hope this is not true.

[–]BeastmodeBisky [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

Why would it not be true? It said as much in the original article yesterday.

[–]bitcoinxbt [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

It may very well be true. I said I hope it's not true.