Luxury watchmaker Breitling starts accepting Bitcoin for purchases

Discussion in 'Crypto Assets' started by johnarb, Jun 29, 2022.

  1. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    That would be like following Jack Daniels advice, if he were still alive.
     
    #21     Jun 29, 2022
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  2. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    so person A gives bitcoin to bitpay
    bitpay gives USD to breitling

    and then what does bitpay do with the bitcoin? hold it? sell it to someone else?
     
    #22     Jun 29, 2022
  3. johnarb

    johnarb

    FDIC insurance is limited so you probably wouldn't want to hold $10M in your checking account

    How much would it cost you in fees to wire $10M from your many accounts to your checking account?
     
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    #23     Jun 29, 2022
  4. johnarb

    johnarb

    I think Bitpay publishes their operating numbers. I'm sure it's somewhere in there that they sell a portion to exchanges or hedge with BTC futures

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitPay
     
    #24     Jun 29, 2022
  5. if i owned 10m in bitcoin, I would never sleep.
     
    #25     Jun 29, 2022
  6. M.W.

    M.W.

    I think you don't understand the real rational behind it. It's not because they like cryptos as our usual shills want to make us believe. It's because Russia and a few others can't otherwise access foreign currencies at current. Despite the volatility watchmakers rather keep the honey flowing despite larger volatility.

     
    #26     Jun 29, 2022
  7. M.W.

    M.W.

    You want that watch where they can't even get the Roman number 4 right? Lol.

    Just kidding, just find it funny how watchmakers want to come across as traditional or antique by using IIII instead of IV, which is the widely accepted way to represent 4. It's all about marketing and image. Nothing else.

     
    #27     Jun 29, 2022
  8. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    they take on principal risk and don’t even charge for that?
     
    #28     Jun 29, 2022
  9. johnarb

    johnarb

    Depends on how you balance your net worth and what percentage is Bitcoin

    If you're not rich and have a steady job, you could have over 80% of your net worth in Bitcoin

    If you're filthy rich, even better, put 5-10% of your net worth and fuggedaboutit

    Look at Winklevoss twins, they bought 210K btc's starting at $!2/ea

    Rode it to over $200M, rode it down to $30M, rode it up to $4B, rode it down to $600M rode it up to $14B now back to $4B

    They never sold a single Bitcoin. I bet they slept well in the past 10 years
     
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    #29     Jun 29, 2022
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  10. Baron

    Baron Administrator

    It's crazy how I used to be a watch fanatic in past years but now I look at luxury mechanical watches as being so outdated and overpriced. These days I just wear a fitbit to collect my activity data.
     
    #30     Jun 29, 2022
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