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Comment by dasil003 | Hacker News Reader

Why is it hostile for a company to want customers to put their money where their mouth is? Anyone can say they want to pay with Bitcoin, but are those people actual customers? As a company you can't really tell that based on a bunch of internet hot air—especially about something that inspires the kind of fanaticism that Bitcoin does.

I'm not sure why this makes you so angry and where you draw your sense of entitlement from, but it's certainly not free to support Bitcoin just because you proclaim it to be.

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App.net to developers: Give me money, so you can use a Twitter like infrastructure. PS. It's not open-source and you have to pay an ongoing subscription.

App.net to investors: Give me money, in return I will give you equity ownership of the technology we built thanks to the money from developers. Don't worry, the developers don't own any equity so more for you and me.

App.net to Bitcoin supporters: Give me money, blah blah blah.

I don't know, I sort of think it's refreshing for a company to ask for money in this day and age.

I have to agree. There's too much of the "free, but we sell your information to advertisers" model going around these days.

It's hostile because they're threatening to remove a payment option that is literally no overheard for them to implement (all the work is being done by coinbase, they just have to cash the checks like usual).

I am not angry in the slightest, I just think it was a poor decision by app.net to place the time limit and threaten the Bitcoin community with permanent rejection of Bitcoin if they fail to cough up the $10K within 30 days.

Excellent point.

And as an app.net 3rd party dev, I wouldn't mind paying in BTC however I'm already paid up for the next year. I'm not going to prepare several years in advance either.

So giving a 30 day window for ~$10k when they're not really actively marketing for new users just is asking for failure.

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