His comment notes he believes it's «clear that small retail payments don't make economic sense for Bitcoin right now,» and that although everything points to the rumor being true, it is still unverified as there was no official statement on Microsoft's end.
With oil prices collapsing to between $ 50 / $ 60 a barrel (at the time of writing), their lowest for six years, oil companies around the world have been slashing development budgets on projects that now don't make economic sense.
If you're already hooked up to the grid, it doesn't make economic sense to «un-hook» from the grid and power your home or business using renewable energy.
Off the record, some of the executives would confide that recycling didn't make economic sense to them, but they weren't about to speak out against their profits — or hurt their reputations by opposing anything as popular as recycling.
Dirty fossil fuels just don't make economic sense — and some of the world's most powerful businesses know it.
The natural gas is simply too strategic to be wasted in exports to Africa (which don't make any economic sense anyway).
By comparison, the solar advocacy efforts are, as acknowledged by TASC: «First and foremost, the group will work to protect net - energy metering (NEM) rules,» as without them — and the other politically correct policies — rooftop solar energy doesn't make economic sense.
Utilities and energy companies are realizing that coal is an increasingly bad investment — that was definitely the case with Brayton Point, which had just been purchased by new owners who quickly determined that keeping the plant running didn't make economic sense.
Especially if a spike in VRE is going to be short, under an hour or so, it doesn't make economic sense to shut off these baseload plants.
According to a Bloomberg report, Hilton cards represent only about 1 % of Citi's U.S. card portfolio, and the issuer said the partnership didn't make economic sense.
They don't make any economic sense.
If these trends continue — it won't make economic sense for people to be employees even for previously «good» jobs like engineers.
Of those two, the Prius is more cost - efficient, but it wouldn't make economic sense to buy unless gas prices topped $ 1.53 / L.
It doesn't make economic sense to me to do so.
Telling a reader she should pay more for a book simply because she buys other products at a higher price doesn't make economic sense to her because she sees a lower priced version of the higher priced product that delivers essentially the same result.
Celica: A convertible or turbocharged performance version of the Scion FR - S coupe was considered, but it didn't make economic sense given the limited volumes.
We can argue the virtues of conventional versus paddle - shift transmissions until we're blue in the face, but the truth is that once Ferrari began offering F1 - style transmissions in its cars, buyers spec'd so few manual - equipped cars that Ferrari couldn't make economic sense of offering a choice any longer.
Just doesn't make economic sense (in and of itself).
It just doesn't make economic sense.
«It doesn't make economic sense,» says Rafael Heras, professor of water management in Madrid.
«In the current situation that we find ourselves, it doesn't make economic sense to be keeping any money called Heritage Funds,» he argued and added that there is the need for an amendment to Act 815.
Energy and climate change committee chair Joan Walley added: «It doesn't make economic sense to let the sun go down on the solar industry in the UK.
«Our position has always been that it doesn't make economic sense for these ministries to be merged.
Then the prime - time package becomes less valuable, of course, which doesn't make economic sense in an industry in which rights fees go up, not down.
I know it doesn't make any economic sense, but I would say this to the Ox: either you go to the team with the highest bid — at this moment Chelsea — or we keep you at Arsenal as a benched squad player in the under - 23s and bury your chances of playing for England in the next World Cup, and explain to him that when he does go for free, it'll be to a club like West Brom on a quarter of the wage Chelsea are prepared to play.
As far as the club's financials show, the man has only respected the club's tradition / philosophy of self sustainability and that's his offense as we all have been spoilt by other clubs» billionaire / State - aid owners distorting the finances with decisions which don't make economic sense and which create unfair competition.
It just doesn't make economic sense to begin accepting BTC as payment — it doesn't result in much higher sales, because there are aren't that many customers with bitcoin.
«It's not fair, and it doesn't make economic sense.»
That's because it didn't make economic sense to employ a delivery person.
University of Alberta business professor Andrew Leach says that even absent new pipelines, a long - term differential greater than the cost of moving barrels by rail «doesn't make economic sense.»
While it may
not make economic sense to immediately trade in your new gas - guzzling SUV, there might be significant long - term savings in upgrading to an energy - efficient furnace.
Michael Powell, a former FCC chairman who heads a trade group representing major cable companies and broadcasters, told reporters that internet providers would not block content because it would
not make economic sense and consumers would not stand for it.
This statement is in sharp contrast to the statements of analysts at IHS Markit and GTM Research that new cell and module factories in the United States do
not make economic sense despite the imposition of tariffs on imported modules.
Similarly, if the Series A is participating with a cap, there will be a range of merger consideration values where the holders of Series A will be indifferent because the cap has been met, but it still does
not make economic sense for the Series A to convert.
«The one is Ulster just didn't make it on the merits... We already decided two casinos in the Capital Region did
not make economic sense.
He adds that even if all its components could be replicated by the machine, the concept does
not make economic sense.
They did
not make economic sense, and the rating agencies had never previously allowed for a martingale strategy to be a safety factor.
If you don't have the demand of a regular market the recycling paper still may end up in a landfill since it does
not make economic sense to collect and store what you can not be assured of getting rid of other than by landfilling.
Because shark fins command $ 70 per kilo while shark meat yields only about 50 cents per kilo, it has
not made economic sense for ships to fill valuable hold space with a commodity worth so little.
A clear message from sceptics is that the effect of CO2 and other global warming gases has been greatly exaggerated and it does
not make economic sense to solve the problem by reducing emissions.
Factor in the expected high cost of the first electric cars, and they really do
not make any economic sense at all.
It also helps eliminate the incentive to litigate a meritorious claim with a relatively nominal amount of damages because it simply does
not make economic sense for a party's attorneys» fees and costs to exceed the potential award of damages.
If you have an older car that's not worth very much, or if you won't have a problem paying for a new car, collision and comprehensive coverages may
not make economic sense.
If you are planning a long term event, say a 30 - day fair, you can expect some rain over that period and it would
not make economic sense to try to insure against any rain.
In layman's terms, with bitcoin prices in the sub - $ 400 range, mining at a difficulty level of 40,000,000,000 - plus simply does
not make economic sense with current - generation hardware.
Roughly 60 percent of her hiring plan for the new year included roles where the use of job boards did
not make economic sense, given salaries and volume.
In the price point your are looking it does
not make economic sense to build more.
Not exact matches
Of course, those refineries could be re-tooled, but that wouldn't
make much
economic sense.
«I still can't believe that buying what I consider to be an expensive, luxury car
makes more
economic sense than owning a Prius.»
But even if it isn't explicit in the
economic projections, a few Fed officials clearly thought it
made sense to raise their interest rate projections a little.»