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Remember usa.net/netaddress.com? "With USA.NET® Net@ddress®, ... have one email address for the rest of your life for free!" http://web.archive.org/web/200012
by donretag 12y ago
Remember usa.net/netaddress.com?
"With USA.NET® Net@ddress®, ... have one email address for the rest of your life for free!"
http://web.archive.org/web/20001218082700/http://usa.net/personal/ http://web.archive.org/web/20001218082700/http://usa.net/per...
I'm not buying into free + forever.
- mastermojo 12y agoWell, free for as long as the company is around. For the next couple years: Do you expect Google (search) to be free? Facebook? Mongodb? Companies can build successful businesses around not charging for the core service.
- jMyles 12y agoMongodb doesn't really belong in that list, though.
- nly 12y agoSaying Google and Facebook have built successful businesses around free services is like saying dairy farmers have built successful businesses around offering cows free grass.
- alistairjcbrown 12y agoThat's a great analogy!
- wmf 12y agoRealistically if BitPay screws up you take a few hours to switch to Coinbase and move on. It's not like an email address.
- heynk 12y agoIf you use BitPay as a payment processor I don't think it would be as easy as, say, swapping out BTC addresses, because of different implementations of webhooks and other APIs.
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- ChuckMcM 12y agoRemember the joke? "On the Internet, 'forever' is 2 years from now."
- antr 12y agoI won't use Bitcoin if transfers aren't free. Bitcoin is competing with my bank account, and to date I can transfer money all around the EU for free, and I've been doing so since 2006. I my case, Bitcoin won't work if the level of service is any worst/more expensive than my bank.