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Overstock.com Made $130,000 In First Day Of Sales Using Bitcoin

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Overstock's CEO must be very pleased after the news was broken to him in the morning. Following his decision to accept payment in Bitcoin and subsequently implementing the same with the help of Coinbase, CEO Patrick Byrne revealed sales statistics for the first day of sales using Bitcoin.

 

 

 
's first full day on
.com was a huge success: 840 orders, 0,000 in sales. Almost all new customers.

 

 

— Patrick M. Byrne (@OverstockCEO) January 10, 2014

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well the CEO has twitter

its where the info came from

 

 

 

ah, ok. why not put it in quotes? :)

nvm.

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ah, ok. why not put it in quotes? :)

nvm.

when i posted it

it was already in quotes but for some reason it didnt stick

so i fixed it after u told be about the hashtag

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Was all that money from sales using bitcoin though? For all we know, only $1,000 of the sales for that day were in BTC.

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Wow that is alot. Guess if you want your business to be successful, add bitcoin as one of your payment methods. :) 

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Was all that money from sales using bitcoin though? For all we know, only $1,000 of the sales for that day were in BTC.

If somebody had read the article *cough* ...

 

 

At the moment, Overstock rakes in around $3 million in revenue on a daily basis. $130k is still a long way from representing a significant percent of that figure, but day 1 figures are very positive.

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Congrats. Setting a standard to all other businesses. 

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If somebody had read the article *cough* ...

oops, sorry. I was looking through lots of posts and did not bother to read each article.

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Congratulations for the stunning sales success. For sure, after this "Overstock accepting bitcoin news", lots of huge retailers will follow and try to integrate bitcoin in their payment system.

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