Bitcoin Had Its Own Black Friday | Motherboard

No one was injured and all transactions were anonymized during Bitcoin's own #BlackFriday:

On November 9th, 65 Bitcoin-accepting merchants all got together, tossed their logos onto a website, and offered discount rates on products as diverse as bars of gold, chocolates, and automobiles. The idea was to stage a Bitcoin-only Black Friday-esque event to capitalize on the holiday purchasing frenzy, and maybe raise the profile of the oft-derided, always interest-piquing online currency in the process. Thus Bitcoin Friday was born. The deals were formidable: Wikispeed , which manufactures cars that “are designed and built by teams of collaborative volunteer teams distributed around the world,” offered $5,000 off the $25K sticker price. Other discounts included your standard 15% off, waived shipping and processing fees, and so on. So how’d it go? PaymentSource says the results were a mixed bag: BeesBros, a North Logan, Utah-based bee-keeping honey-making family busines...

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