I don't think they paid anything at all, actually. Transactions above a certain priority are free, as I understand it: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_f

I don't think they paid anything at all, actually. Transactions above a certain priority are free, as I understand it: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees Not that $350 would have meant much - your point stands and is well taken. I was convinced of this money transmission use case as the most important when I was writing up something on Bitcoin a while back and talked with a few experts. They were all psyched about this kind of thing, not about "you can buy your groceries with a bitcoin card" stuff, which will have better solutions than this. Global liquidity is what it adds, really.