Bitcoin Weekly 2014 November 19: Bitcoin Black Friday approaches, BloomNation talks BTC, Circle mobile apps, DPR coins …

Its already November and therefore a good time to prepare for Black Friday and the upcoming Bitcoin Black Friday. November 28th will be a date to save with all the deals that will be released to the Bitcoin community. Be sure to sign up for e-mail updates so you dont miss it!

Also in this issue: BloomNation talks flowers and accepting bitcoins; Circle releases Android and iOS apps; Blockstream receive $21 million in funding; the next round of Dread Pirate Roberts bitcoins being sold by the U.S. Marshals; and Coinbase releases its own tipping button.

November 28th this year is the retail holiday Black Friday and along with it the Bitcoin Black Friday deal-making event is also approaching.

Bitcoin Black Friday Jon Holmquist says that he expects to see 6,000 merchants this yearthats ten times the number who joined in 2013and that the expected deals will be released on November 26th.

This will be the third year that Bitcoin Black Friday as run and it has only gotten bigger each year. For more information see SiliconANGLEs post on the 2014 event.

Internet flower arrangement and delivery service, BloomNation started accepting bitcoin at the same time competitor 1-800-Flowers.com announced it would be taking bitcoins. In January of this year, BloomNation partnered with Coinbase to accept bitcoins for Internet-based flower delivery.

BloomNations mission statement is to disrupt the way that Internet flower delivery works by acting as a service that connects people with local florists and then getting out of the way. The process involves local small businesses, the florists send an image of the final arrangement to the customer before delivery (no stock photos), and it allows for same-day hand delivery.

A lot of people who would not have traditionally sent flowers today, have now sent flowers online because of bitcoin, says Gregg Weisstein, Co-Founder and COO of BloomNation.com. He feels that accepting bitcoins has opened up BloomNation to that niche customer.

According to Weisstein, bitcoin transactions represent a very small amount of total revenueless than 1 percentbut that the team sees bitcoin orders come in all the time.

Its pretty exciting, he adds. The business gets a separate notification from Coinbase on bitcoin orders.

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