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26 Oct '12, 3pm

Bitcoin, Payments, and Online Pharmacies (my response to an academic study that advocates payment intervention)

A few US-based pharmaceutical programs, notably Health Solutions Network (which we did not study in our analysis), enabled Cash-On-Delivery (COD) payments for their customers when their Visa processing was disabled. Ultimately, the effectiveness of such mechanisms depends on their familiarity and overhead to consumers, the readiness of alternative sites offering more traditional payments, and the extent to which consumers are well motivated. Indeed, while we witnessed some programs (notably in the OEM software space) attempt to continue their businesses using alternative payment mechanisms including PayPal and, most recently, Bitcoin, by all accounts this has not been successful.

Full article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/10/26/generic...

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