Bitcoin = Ponzi, even if you can buy a Tesla, an EV. To answer your question, who's the sucker? The acceptor of "wildly fluctuating" in value currency (See examples of out of control inflation)
-------- Original message -------- From: David Chapman <[email protected]> Date:12/08/2013 10:42 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [EVDL] Used Tesla-S bought using Bitcoin from a Lamborghini dealership So who is the sucker? The fellow that spent his bitcoins (that he may have mined or traded for profitably) or the lambo dealership that took them and most likely immediately cash converted them and got a shitload of free or cheap publicity? I agree that Bitcoin is not for everyone and is rather volatile but... I remember back when I was one of the very early adopters of some flakey new internet money service - IIRC it was called "Pay Pal" and thinking "this is awful weird so I won't risk much" and now the guy I helped make it work builds high end electric cars. Dach. "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are" - Theodore Roosevelt On Sunday, December 8, 2013 4:01 AM, "[email protected]," <[email protected]> wrote: Bitcoin "there's a sucker born every minute" -------- Original message -------- From: brucedp5 <[email protected]> Date:12/06/2013 10:52 AM (GMT-05:00) To: [email protected] Subject: [EVDL] EVLN: Used Tesla-S bought using Bitcoin from a Lamborghini dealership http://www.bayoubuzz.com/top-stories/item/562053-electric-sale-someone-used-bitcoins-to-buy-a-tesla Electric sale: Someone used bitcoins to buy a Tesla by Mike Blake / Reuters 05 December 2013 [image http://www.bayoubuzz.com/media/k2/items/cache/3ee9b427bad998cf326e61a48296b9d0_L.jpg ] A customer bought a Tesla Model S electric car like this one using Bitcoin. Add a brand new Tesla Model S to the growing list of items you can buy with bitcoins. An auto dealership in Newport Beach, Calif., revealed Wednesday that it sold its first vehicle with the virtual currency as legal tender. “Bitcoin, a fully encrypted and fully digital currency, has been used by a recent client of ours to pay for a Tesla Model S Performance we had in our inventory. That's right, an electronic currency was used to purchase a fully electric vehicle,” Lamborghini Newport Beach boasted in a blog post. A Lamborghini Newport Beach official told The Daily Dot that the buyer, who was not identified, paid 91.4 bitcoins for the premium electric sedan, which was voted Motor Trend’s 2013 “Car of the Year.” The value of the virtual currency has skyrocketed several thousand percent since the beginning of the year and recently crossed the $1,000 barrier on the Mt.Gox exchange. On Thursday, the price of a bitcoin slumped back below $1,000 after China’s central bank banned financial institutions from trading in the virtual currency. The California dealership didn’t say when the electrifying sale took place or what the equivalent sales price in dollars was. The manufacturer’s suggested retail price for the four-door Model S sedan is around $90,000, though customers rarely pay the full amount. “Lamborghini Newport Beach is proud to announce that we are fully capable of accepting Bitcoin as payment for vehicles. We are excited to be opening the door to this new currency,” the dealership said. [© 2013 Bayoubuzz.com] ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin Bitcoin open source peer-to-peer electronic money and payment network ... http://www.lambonb.com/contact.html Lamborghini Newport Beach 888-564-5020 1425 Baker Street, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 https://www.facebook.com/LamborghiniNB http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-purchased-with-bitcoin-2013-12 Someone Bought A Tesla Using Bitcoin Dec. 5, 2013 - A buyer paid for a Tesla Model S using bitcoins, according to the company blog of Newport Lamborghini in Costa Mesa, CA ... http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoins-aren-t-just-for-boring-stuff--tesla-s-buyer-finds-165255714.html Bitcoin May Be in a 'Bubble' but It Can Also Buy You a Tesla Model S Dec. 5, 2013 ... likely left over from a trade in by an earlier Lambo buyer. A new Tesla Model S starts at $62,400. With bitcoins trading at $1,052 on the Mt.Gox Exchange Thursday, it would take about 59 bitcoins to grab a new electronic ride. http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1088926_first-tesla-model-s-purchased-with-bitcoin a Tesla Model S has been purchased directly with Bitcoin. The car, sold for an undisclosed sum of Bitcoin by Lamborghini Newport Beach in Costa Mesa, California, appears to have been a lightly used model, if only because it wasn't sold directly by Tesla Motors ... ... http://electrek.co/2013/12/05/someone-bought-a-tesla-model-s-with-bitcoins/ For all EVLN posts use: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date Here are today's archive-only EV posts: EVLN: Trial results show EVs will work in Australia EVLN: GM Cancels Envia Battery Deal, IP lawsuits against Envia EVLN: 8 Tesla supercharger EVSE @Savannah Airport, GA EVLN: How-to guide: Montreal's Auto-Mobile Plugin-sharing service EVLN: ~1,200 Rav4EV-gen2 sold w/ Tesla pack = all in CA & fire-free + EVLN: Today's sexy new EVs burn rubber, performance addicts targeted {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Used-Tesla-S-bought-using-Bitcoin-from-a-Lamborghini-dealership-tp4666595.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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