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ChuckMcM · on July 30, 2014

Remember the joke? "On the Internet, 'forever' is 2 years from now."

mastermojo · on July 30, 2014

Well, 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.

nly · on July 31, 2014

Saying 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 · on July 31, 2014

That's a great analogy!

jMyles · on July 30, 2014

Mongodb doesn't really belong in that list, though.

wmf · on July 30, 2014

Realistically if BitPay screws up you take a few hours to switch to Coinbase and move on. It's not like an email address.

heynk · on July 30, 2014

If 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.

antr · on July 31, 2014

I 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.