I'm Patrick Byrne, a pro-freedom supporter of cryptocurrency and school vouchers, early critic of Wall Street, three time cancer survivor, journalist at DeepCapture.com, and CEO and founder of Overstock.com. AMA! : IAmA

Well good for you, what's your thoughts on buying into Ethereum, good investment or BAD?

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3 time survivor of cancer, and successful entrepreneur. I bet you are a firm believer in positive thinking and the power of the mind for healing. I am just going to throw this out there, if there...

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I notice that you go out of your way to mention BitPay, Coinapult, etc, alongside of and even before the company you did your actual integration with - Coinbase. Why is this? Do you hope to / pla...

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Worked in customer service for this place, it was awful. They regularly failed to deliver, or partially delivered furniture. Even when people deserved a refund they would not give one. I was let ...

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Have you heard of the book Born to Steal: When the Mafia Hit Wall Street ? It's based on the true story of Louis Pasciuto, who was an unlicensed "stock broker" aka con artist who worked out of a ...

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Coinbase will add Litecoin when there is an exchange with high volume.

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As long as btc-e is the leading exchange for ltc, coinbase will not integrate ltc.

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I like Overstock and I like the fact that you now accept bitcoins. Do you think the other will eventually catch on?

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Why would supply not also increase?

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There haven't been any compliance issues around the IRS ruling?

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Great to know that Bitcoin is on your list too. Keep it up and more cryptocurrencies to come.

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Thanks for doing this. Do you pay any of your suppliers in bitcoin or have any plans for it? I hear you now stockpile 10% of bitcoins you receive. Do you plan on increasing this in the future...

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Or; they're implementing one of the newest technologies (Bitcoin) while using one of the oldest revision control systems?

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You sound amazing.

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/respect

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"Early critic of wallstreet" So....hipster

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checkout Counterparty decentralized exchange built on top of bitcoin blockchain. Unlike nxt and whatnot, it's been around months already, see more - https://www.counterparty.co/

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Hi patrick, I was recently told by Brad King that you were the owner of Overstock and I wasn't sure whether or not to believe him- interesting this should pop up! Question for you- who makes more...

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Exactly! Why should we have to pay for knowledge in the first place? If a man is determined to succeed or to grow his wisdom then there is no need to donate to these institutions. The internet is...

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You are one of our great Martyrs Charlie. Keep up your hope.

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> But if that taxing authority is tapped out (which it obviously is, Really? No taxes this year?

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How hard do you work? Do you feel like your job gets between you and your family? Do you find it easy to work long hours? Do you always have the motivation to deal with your responsibilities? I'm...

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I'm glad you are pro-freedom. Advertising that you are pro-slavery might turn off some of your fans who like bitcoin. Also, I've often wondered why people who support school vouchers deny that ...

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You say that Nietzsche pretends to be an individualist, but isn't. Can you please explain? Also, how did you become CEO of a large company while being so honest, and having views and a personal...

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I am fascinated by your move into insurance ... What's your strategy?

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I'm a 21 year old young man and your site overstock has made me lust over homewares, my friends find me weird and my girlfriend often questions my sexuality.

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Senior Developer @ Overstock here. Can confirm. Enterprise java shop as well. AMA

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"Early critic of Wall Street"? Aren't you so special

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQO5oqrP1KE

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What do you think would happen if public magnate schools self-selected the way that private school voucher programs self-selected?

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Patrick this is fantastic. Can't wait to buy from the UK version of the site.

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I'm anti-freedom. I also hate fun. Can't we all just get along?

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Rolling a cigar with you and Snoop would be bitching! :-)

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Is this a resume?

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You, sir, are a mouthful.

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It's not even worth arguing. Bitcoin is already entrenched. Let people holding peercoin think they might randomly blow up. But the fact is people holding altcoins are also holding bitcoins.

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Let's use our spacecash to buy spacecakes.

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I haven't made my way to bitcoin yet, but I do always seem to find better birthday/Christmas presents for the men in my family from Overstock!

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What?! That wasn't beer we were drinking?

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Just like how Overstock would start accepting bitcoin by the middle of 2014 ;D Edit: PS I never made a purchase at Overstock.com until you started accepting bitcoin. You gained a new customer h...

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I'm just a little baby

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free markets, small governments, dirty water.

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Fellow libertarian here. 1. How do you get around the first amendment implications of giving tax dollars to religious institutions through vouchers?

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No kidding, I didn't see that anywhere. Very cool actually

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For completeness, there are more projects around decentralized markets. You should also check out colored coins ( http://chromawallet.com/ ) Open Transactions ( http://opentransactions.org/w...

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> Ironically enough: Subversion. And, that's ironic, because it's designed around the notion of centralized control, amirite?

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World Depression II has a very sad ring to it. :( How about "The Greater Depression"...yeah that's less depressing.

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ITT: /r/bitcoin stops by for a visit. So...uh...Patrick...can I call you Patrick? Paddy it is, then. What sports do you play? Also, do you watch Rick and Morty?

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Probably for returns.

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TIL the Bitcoin CEO isn't a grown up yet.

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If only that applied to politicians.

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I deemed them unworthy.

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South Park beat you to Space cash. http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s13e06-pinewood-derby Randy steals a superconducting magnet from Hadron Collider dressed as Princess Leia. Hilari...

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As a born and raised Liberal, I've found being a liberal much more ethically and logically sound.

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> Speaking of Amazon, why have you not implemented a "prime" type > subscription option? They do have Club O which gives free shipping on all orders, among other things. It doesn...

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> (Notice Amazon recently dissed Bitcoin? They do not want to appear > as Me-too'ers.) I assume you're aware that Amazon is going further than that, with Amazon Coins . One of their...

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I find it cool that you knew the answer to that question.

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Hi Patrick. European here. Sadly we cannot order with bitcoins. Are there any plans for enabling BTC payments or expanding Overstock to EU? Thanks :)

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Those non-backed bucks very often are malinvested in the most short sighted and destructive ways! I like the term 'Figments' .... that would be an awesome name for a Bitcoin decimal unit.

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Whoa whoa whoa! This is really interesting. Can you elaborate on that? Are you saying that overstock holds 10% of their bitcoin sales in BTC rather than cashing it out into fiat? Does Overstock d...

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Focus on stock value isn't necessarily a good thing

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It's even more impressive to remain cool after getting rich. Good on you

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I hope i can be this cool too when i grow up

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Where are those new marketing materials the president of bitcoin requested? We need those stat.

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"Also, he rolls a mean cigar." Awsome. 1 cigar /u/changetip

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Speaking of Amazon, why have you not implemented a "prime" type subscription option? It would add another revenue stream in itself and would probably drive more repeat traffic. It's also a great ...

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You're a very cool CEO and I'll leave it to that.

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I wouldn't expect much from The Borg. Kinda surprised they haven't blacklisted Roku yet.

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I also want to mention I find it commendable that you take a lower salary and no bonus.

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Like Ho Chi Minh, make it a war of the ants against the elephants.

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Good question. The day I got to Dartmouth I swore to myself that while I was there I would never enter a church, a party, or a fraternity. never did. Never had a single beer with anyone in coll...

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Mail sent :)

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Sorry if this has been mentioned already but how would you suggest the community as a whole informs the general public about bitcoin? Obviously mainstream media isnt doing a great job since their...

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How about a week of driving the other person's car? edit: tesla vs jetta

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The CEO of a major company flat out speaking the truth? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here. Keep up the good work.

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Wouldn't a lower cash salary give incentive for executives to focus on the valuation of stocks more?

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Why? Why bother? Let's keep it together here and focus on bitcoin. Merchants don't gain any new customers by accepting altcoins, as anyone who owns altcoins already has bitcoin. And they won't be...

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

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Beat the rush.

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10%.

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Thanks. If so, it helps that I was a really cool person before I became a rich guy.

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It's not just a cryptocurrency. It's a fully decentralized payment platform.

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One must look at cash and non-cash together.

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When someone is dishonest, do not try to cajole or coach them. Get rid of him.

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BS = Bullshit MS = More Shit PhD = Piled Higher and Deeper. Thanks.

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Nope. Just lucky I guess.

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Yes. Wall Street started to be infiltrated by Organized Crime. It sttarted with Michael Steinhardt in the 1970's (his dad, Sol Steinhardt, was the biggest Mob fence in America, and went to Sing S...

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Just want to say you sound like a really cool mega rich person.

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Thanks for doing this Mr. Byrne. I was curious if overstock held a small % of the btc from purchases or is it all automatically sold on the market?

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My company's CEO thinks there are more important things to take care of rather than bitcoin payments. What would you say to him?

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Wow! Thanks for the kind words Mr. Byrne! Just sent you some gold - paid in Bitcoin :) -Charlie

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You're on. My paycheck against yours? (Joke: I don't get paychecks, I believe.)

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I love you too.

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Thanks. Spread the word! We took a chance by taking it. Help make it pay off by getting more people to think like you. (Notice Amazon recently dissed Bitcoin? They do not want to appear as Me-t...

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Organised crime on Wall St -- Can you elaborate?

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Thanks. I like to reclaim the word "liberal"-- once used to denote someone who believed in free markets and small governments. It really tweaks so-called progressives when they see me describe ...

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I'm sorry that you contracted cancer numerous times, do you have any ideas about what caused it? Also, Bitcoin :-}

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The bitcoin community is full of tons of young entrepreneurs. As founder of a wildly successful company/one of the most well educated people I have ever read about (Dartmouth B.A, Cambridge M.A. ...

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Thank you for doing this AMA, and thank you for your activism and conviction you have shown over the years! Hindsight is 20/20, what is one decision that you would make, or wouldnt make, if you...

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Ironically enough: Subversion.

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Yesterday was a bit sad, for various reasons. A good friend was lost. Today... Just getting by.

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Your top executives (Stormy Simon, Johnathan Johnson, Dave Nielsen) make $350K a year in salary, while Amazon pays their around $160K. This information is made public in SEC fillings. How is your...

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I'm a computer programmer, so I'd like to ask a technical question if it's not a secret - what do you use for source control?

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who are your favorite philosopher's and what book on philosophy do you recommened for enlightenment? Nietzsche is my favorite philosopher as a writer, but I do not support his philosophy. (He ...

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Thank you for accepting bitcoin Patrick. I've made several purchases on Overstock instead of Amazon because of it.

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A book about Camille Claudel, I think.

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We love you. ;)

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I work over at castle and I challenge you to a game of ping pong.

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What was the last thing you bought from overstock.com?

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Schiff rocks, we got to get him on the Bitcoin train.

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Having been nibbled to death by a duck, I would rather fight the horses of whatever size.

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About two years ago I read a short piece about it in Wired, or Fast Company (perhaps). It struck a bell, from my computation studies at Stanford. I was also struck by how it has properties simila...

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hello patrick first i will like to say thank you for all you do. i have 3 questions 1. who are your favorite philosopher's and what book on philosophy do you recommened for enlightenment? 2. I ad...

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> NXT - the first second generation cryptocurrency LOL

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When and from whom have you first heard of Bitcoin, and what was your first reaction?

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It was an amalgam of two people. 1) Steven A. Cohen of SAC Capital (hence, all my references to "someday I am going to sack up and tell the world....") 2) Michael Milken, who, I believe, is the...

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Hi Patrick! I'd just like to say it's great working here at Overstock. Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or 1 horse-sized duck?

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Zombies never cease to amaze us. Thanks for answering.

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Calculate how much capital it is going to take to start your business, and how many years. Then square both those numbers.

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It is true that the Fed is propping it up, but they are not going to stop. They cannot stop lest we slide back into a deeper recession/depression. However, eventually reality has a way of happe...

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I love you.

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The fact that you can touch gold is next to irrelevant. Proving you actually have it is what's important. Before cryptocurrency (or SpaceCash as I hear it's now called), this meant touching it or...

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Did you ever reveal who the "Sith Lord" is??? Inquiring minds want to know!

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Contact me about this. Patrick@overstock.com (RHIP)

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"Is naked short selling still a problem? " Not so much, or at least, not as obviously as previously. "What do you see currently as the biggest risks to our financial system?" Chains of title. Y...

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As a successful entrepreneur, what advice would you give to someone just starting up their own (tech) company?

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Right. Some say that Bitcoin is a figment of someone's imagination. But as I said on Fox or CNN or something recently (search my name on Youtube, you'll find it), I would be happy to debate the m...

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If you could change one thing about the bitcoin community, what would it be?

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Enlightening, thank you for that!

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I see there as being incremental steps towards educational freedom: 1) Backpack funding (e.g., Oakland) - Send your kid to any public school in the district that you want, and the funds travel ...

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I don't know the specifics of Shrem's case, so I cannot comment. But I do think the government should put more resources into policing Wall Street. The last I checked, the SEC budget was about ...

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Im liking this guy the more and more I read. Id die for the chance toke a "cigar" with snoop

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I grew up in New England and thought of myself as a Yankee Republican. Then the Republicans went crazy getting worked up over things that are none of the government's damn business. The old man w...

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I did not know that. I never saw that coming, but that goes right to the heart of it in a big way. Thanks, man.

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So true. BTW - here's the video (or a video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TDf36WYtNE

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I admire your position and fight for school vouchers, now that charter schools have become more common, do you feel that charter schools can replace the need for school vouchers? Charter schools ...

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Lol "cigar"

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No we are not in a recovery. We have re-inflated a bubble and called it a recovery. The government lies to us about the stats. Think of it this way: assume Alleged GDP (that is, "Nominal GDP") ...

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Its ridiculous to see the insane amount of people coming out attempting to hijack this AMA to pump their bitcoin clone

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I'd like to thank you for the nice red lounge chairs I got from Overstock. I was able to get a good price for them at a garage sale later. My question is how do you ensure a stable inherent value...

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Thank you very much for your answer!

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Is naked short selling still a problem? What do you see currently as the biggest risks to our financial system?

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Combine = "Our Benefactors" in the half-life universe. HL3 confirmed!

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I believe BitPay actually includes a way to pay employees with your bitcoin payments.

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Thanks. It was even more fun hanging out with the guy for four hours. He is one smaaaart dude. He asked me more intelligent questions about our business than any of the 80 or so VCs with whom I e...

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Hey Patrick! Thanks for doing this AMA! What are your thoughts on some of the high profile Bitcoin arrests like Charlie Shrem? Shouldn't the government be spending our tax dollars on putting ...

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I like Schiff. Opponents say, "Even a broken watch is right twice per day." But he shares my Austrian views. Yogi Berra said something to the effect, "Anything that cannot go on forever won't."...

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I couldn't agree with you more. This single post addresses why we have such major economic problems in this country. If we take away the power of the printing press in this country, the governmen...

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Working on it now. Phase II was getting so we could issue credits back in Bitcoin. I think it came live last week. Phase III will be accepting it internationally. Should happen late summer +/-.

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Thanks. Samuel Johnson said, "When you tell a man he is to be hung in a fortnight, it tends to focus his mind tremendously." As is well known, I spent a few years hospitalized with cancer. Read...

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I've heard from multiple sources that the stock market is due for a major retraction this year because its been artificially propped up by the FED's QE. Your thoughts?

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I don't know. Wherever you see an industry get over-leveraged, I suppose. Look for whatever sector has the most cronies of Michael Milken: thta would be a good guess.

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Patrick, What was your evolution toward being "pro-freedom" like? Were you always so? Was there some event that turned you in that direction?

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lmao

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Tiny. <.1%

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Right. Some say that Bitcoin is a figment of someone's imagination. But as I said on Fox or CNN or something recently (search my name on Youtube, you'll find it), I would be happy to debate the m...

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Hi Patrick, do you have any thoughts on where the economy is heading? Are we truly in a recovery as the powers that be suggest? Do you have examples you see in business that say one way or the ot...

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The Snoop Dogg Overstock commercial was awesome! When can we expect to see more ads from him?

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True dat.

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What percentage of transactions (# or revenue) are paid for in Bitcoin on Overstock.com?

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Nice to see you on Reddit, Mr. Byrne. Here is my question. Peter Schiff and many others think that a collapse of the dollar is imminent. What do you think about that? And what impact this colla...

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Thanks Walden. You are talking about an "angel investor." In every city there are circles of retired execs and what-not who want to be angel investors. Start there. However, I think the crowd...

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Love the term. Im sure that its going to spread like wild fire throughout reddit. And yes there is no doubt that currency SHOULD be limited. The fact that our government has unlimited power over ...

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The solution that you are requesting is exactly what the NXT decentralized Asset Exchange is all about (it launches in 10 days). Here is a link to a comprehensive article explaining the NXT As...

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I have no theories as to valuation. Adoption.... I would imagine SpaceCash (of one flavor or another) will gradually increase until you see 2-3% of transactions occur within it. If that day eve...

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It has been unbelievably seamless. Coinbase made it easy. But Bitpay and Coinapult do as well, I hear. Once integrated, it has not demanded an ounce of effort.

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Truly. The beautiful thing about bitcoin is that we can all be a small part of this change. The peer to peer aspect makes it truly pro-freedom

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I became a strong believer in several ways. 1) As a grad student at Stanford I studied computation thory, which underlies public key encryption, and so when cryptocurrencies came along it was n...

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Hello Patrick, Thank you for doing this. Do you know when Overstock.com will be accepting bitcoin for international shipment? I've been waiting this for months! (I'm in Canada)

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Hello Patrick Glad to see you made it to AMA land! I see other Bitcoiners are showing up on your AMA, which is no surprise. You've become a Quasi-God in crypto-land for having the guts to tak...

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Thank you so much for answering this! We will continue to lean on Coinbase.

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You mentioned the term bust out in your presentation on Ecomonic Warfare. You taught that an example of this was the S&L crisis. Where do you see the next bust out occurring?

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No opinion on such companies. Not offering it to employees yet, but there is always the year-end bonus to consider!

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It depends upon what their hesitancy is. There are business reasons to do it: save on transaction fees, eliminate fraud and charebacks, etc. There may be business reasons not to do it as well, ...

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I am a bit confused about what you are asking. My fight with Wall Street came about because I became convinced in 2004 that the market's mechanisms for clearing and settling trades had been corru...

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Where do you see Bitcoin in 1 year? What about 5? Or 10?

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Hi Patrick! You've gotten a lot of praise for accepting Bitcoin, I think its great. But I'm curious what you've found to be the biggest challenge or drawback with accepting this new form of curre...

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Hello Mr. Byrne, Clearly bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have the potential to change how our world does money for the better. What made you such a strong believer in bitcoin, and how would ...

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Ultimately, my support is for cryptocurrency, of which Bitcoin is currently the most well-known example. I am happy to see other cryptocurrencies gain momentum. As far as Overstock goes.... We in...

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Mr. Byrne, What is your take on companies that operate solely in Bitcoin (i.e. Blockchain, Bitcoinstore.com, etc)? Are you offering your employees to take a percentage of their salary in Bitcoi...

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You have previously mentioned in a interview with Forbes that you are very intersted in a "Bitcoin version of the stock market" and having the ability to conduct more than just simple transaction...

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Hi Mr. Byrne, If someone has a good creative idea and is committed to develop and implement it, but needs more financial resources for research, development, and production, what ways would you...

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Hi Patrick, I was wondering if you've done any research into the 3rd largest crypto, Peercoin (PPC) and if Overstock would consider accepting it after they implement Litecoin in the future. In ...

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Hello Patrick! You have done a great service to the bitcoin community by taking the bold leap and becoming the first major retailer to accept bitcoin. Do you have any future plans to use a paym...

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14 years ago I launched Overstock.com. Today, despite the great dotcom bubble and several financial downturns, Overstock.com has grown to become one of the largest internet retailers on the plane...

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