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Then you're not the target market. If you have no credit card, it's very, very hard as a global website (i.e. not localized to the Netherlands) to accept money from you. So if that's the case, then they don't even want you as a customer, because you have no way of paying them.Giving you a free trial is then counterproductive.

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It's actually really easy.... ( http://bitpay.com )

No it's not, that just moves the difficulty from merchant to client. Actually getting bitcoins is not easy, takes a long time, etc. It adds friction, support overhead, risk, latency, for very little pay-off.

We're talking about subscriptions here, so the customer would have to send bitcoins every month. He would have to first get bitcoins, then those few days later actually remember wanting to use the service, send the service the coins he paid for a few days back, wait half an hour, again. All that, for those maybe 1 out of 10K leads that would even know what bitcoin is.

exactly.

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