Review: Brawker Let's You Buy 'Almost Anything' with Bitcoin
Name: Brawker. What it is: Brawker is a site that offers discount shopping at all legitimate web retailers. The firm says users can buy "almost anything" online with bitcoin. It also enables people to semi-anonymously purchase bitcoin by shopping for others with their credit/debit cards or PayPal. Who's behind it: Co-founder and CEO Cyril Houri previously founded Infosplit, the first company to provide geolocation based on IP address, and Navizon, a firm specialising in wireless geolocation. He designed and patented some of the technology that is now commonly used to geolocate website....
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Brawker, a proxy buying platform, recently launched with a trendy post that made it to the top of the Bitcoin subreddit. For the first time bitcoin users have the chance to buy anything on the web with their bitcoins. Brawker helps bitcoin users by letting them spend their bitcoins on virtually anything, giving them an 8% discount and making bitcoin more widely used. On the other end, Brawker also allows people to buy bitcoins with a credit card or Paypal, by buying the items for the bitcoin users. This easy way to buy bitcoins was almost impossible to do until now. So, how is this....
Bitcoin startup Brawker is on a roll. On October 16, the company enabled a New Hampshire-based reddit user "Rossby" score what is a world's first: pay a parking ticket with Bitcoin, and while at it, get a discount in the process too. Brawker is an online marketplace that connects people who want to buy Bitcoin and people who want to buy things with Bitcoin. Brawker allows you to buy anything you can find online with Bitcoin, or use it to buy Bitcoin with your credit card or PayPal account. You can even use Brawker to pay your bills with Bitcoin, as well as buy books that are supposedly....
Before I begin, this article is about how Amazon dropped the ball and how Brawker outperformed them. I use Brawker. I love the concept of sites like Purse and Brawker. Their business models are such classic examples of innovation outpacing the establishment. An article on Brawker was something I wanted to do but then the price crashed. Then sidechains and a bunch of other great innovations happened. I kept missing the chance to write about Brawker. Writing about my personal experiences are not as exciting for me as writing about technology or economics or history. This article goes a....
Most of the times I introduce bitcoins to people who don't know about it, they invariably reply: "Where could I use them?" I would usually reply "at any merchant that accepts bitcoins." But now I'm able to reply "Anywhere". The next question most people ask is "But where do I get bitcoins in the first place?" I'd usually mention localbitcoins or Coinbase. But now I'm able to tell them about Brawker. Brawker is proxy buying service that allows you to both buy bitcoins and purchase anything on the internet using bitcoins with a guaranteed discount, just for using bitcoins. Here's how it....
"The overall security level for all Brawker users has just gone up," reads Brawker's latest blog post. Brawkeris a service that matches up a bitcoiner who wants to buy something online with their bitcoins and a credit card holder who wants bitcoins. The credit card holder buys the product and gets bitcoins in return. The bitcoin user gets a discount of up to 20% on the product they want. Following the decentralized design that characterizes Bitcoin, Brawker has just switched to multi-signature transactions. If you've used Brawker before, this new implementation isn't going to make your....