"DISH will use Coinbase’s Instant Exchange™ feature to exchange bitcoin payments to U.S. dollars at the moment of the transaction"
Bitcion is probably pretty far off from being stable enough for things to cost "X Bitcions". But out of genuine curiosity, can someone list the benefits of paying with bitcoin besides anonymity/privacy (which for DISH's account-bound customers is irrelevant). I suppose it saves DISH from having currency-specific payment processors in each geographic region if they wanted to reduce admin overhead, but the conversion fees would still exist in a sense from Coinbase's fees.
Bitcion is probably pretty far off from being stable enough for things to cost "X Bitcions". But out of genuine curiosity, can someone list the benefits of paying with bitcoin besides anonymity/privacy (which for DISH's account-bound customers is irrelevant). I suppose it saves DISH from having currency-specific payment processors in each geographic region if they wanted to reduce admin overhead, but the conversion fees would still exist in a sense from Coinbase's fees.