Post for: #nyc (3 Posts)

Proud to once again see work by me and my team featured in Times Square.

Next month marks the 8th anniversary since the registration of the tra.cx domain name. Words connot describe the way I feel right now, after reaching yet another peak in this amazing journey, with my four partners and a dream-team of amazingly talented people making Tracx a global leader, a family and a home.

For the next week our dashboards are displayed on a 15x10 meters screen in Times Square, the most visible place on the planet, showing real-time data about the Super Bowl, the most watched sporting event in America.

I'm in NYC for a week, returning home tomorrow, and just got back from the EVR club. I'm a bit too old for a Friday-night dance club, and the $100 minimum bar tab was a little ridiculous, but I'm glad I went, helped the Bitcoin economy a bit, and gained some first-hand experience.

It was really funny on the way in. The bouncers didn't know what I was talking about, and they referred me to Alex (a different one, not the owner), who smiled and told them "oh, it's this Bitcoin thing that Alex is doing", then took me inside and whispered something into the radiant bartender's ear and told me she'd take care of me.

The payment process was smooth. Alex was so geeked out, I guess, that he asked someone to take a picture of us when I came to pay the bill. I just scanned a QR code off his tablet using my blockchain.info wallet app. I only had like 0.43BTC on me (worth about $60) so I paid the rest with my credit card, which actually took longer to process.

Anyway, it was a good feeling. Glad I did it.

The Genesis Block interviewed EVR owner Alex Likhtenstein, "Buying Drinks With Bitcoin".