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For the first time in history, a program discloses the real stats of its bitcoin sales!
Ok so in the first few days, we had a grand total of: zero sales from Bitcoin, Litecoin or Dogecoin. The regular customers simply continue to use credit cards, prepaid voucher and such as before.
We only added coins in the buy page, no special announcements across our site, and we did not wrote anything in coin forums or reddits yet... on purpose, so to check if our userbase had any coin. It seems not, this was expected.
A comparison: as soon as Epoch added support of PayPal (for euro users only, to euro companies as ours only), we had lots of people starting to use it, and still using, as much as Mastercard for Euro users. Some was a switch from card to paypal, and others was completely new sales: users who sort of waited paypal and would not use cards.
I think that with bitcoin press releases and bitcoin forum posts, reaching the coin guys, some will come to spend some on the site, even just to support whatever site embraces the coin religion. If that's it, the coin sales come from coin niche of traffic, not from (adult) mainstream traffic. I'll take the time to announce this in coin places next week.
Let the coins become mainstream in future, then you'll get coin sales from mainstream traffic - and no chargebacks or "high risk fees"! I really think in a far future some coins will be mainstream, it's cute and logic.
Coin volume sales for gambling, betting exists today, just I am skeptic on certain press releases claiming volume coin sales for adult sites today. Unless you're the official adult site for coin forums, that's $8 billion market cap of bitcoin, some bitcoin millionaire may spend some in adult sites rather than hoard and daily trade, I can't tell yet.
PS: introducing coins sales and having a PPS option for affiliates it is risky for the program, in fact an affiliate could do accounts and anonymously pay small items with coins to collect the higher PPS payouts in fiat dollars, profiting on the difference. But still, a PPS affiliate doing all sales from coins users will be easy to spot as unlikely real.
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