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Topic: Are You Spending Bitcoin? - page 5. (Read 8644 times)

member
Activity: 109
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September 05, 2014, 12:47:55 AM
yes.. spending it with services and some sort of stuff. What is your first thought if you are not spending your bitcoin..
legendary
Activity: 1199
Merit: 1047
September 03, 2014, 03:22:26 AM
It will be bad for the price of Bitcoin, but it's important that people spend anyways. This is what will continue to get businesses to accept it and make people want to keep working on it.

Why is it bad? Spending them is good for its purchasing power, as more people realize that it's useful.
legendary
Activity: 1456
Merit: 1001
This is the land of wolves now & you're not a wolf
September 02, 2014, 11:16:36 PM
Are any of you spending BTC on subscription based services?   If so, do you need to manually pay each month, or does it automatically re-calculate the amount of BTC that is due each month (depending on current prices)?
hero member
Activity: 728
Merit: 500
September 02, 2014, 11:09:04 PM
I believe most keep them until it goes high to the sky.
legendary
Activity: 1190
Merit: 1000
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September 02, 2014, 10:56:33 PM
spent over 80+ btc on altcoins -_-
I don't think this so much counts as spending your bitcoin, but is rather speculating that the price of a scamcoin will increase.

I feel the same way. But if you are certain that your ability to speculate with alt coin is great you can earn. But most of the time I see massive loss only...

I should've said I lost 80+ btc on altcoins lollll

so far bought nothing with my remaining btc
sr. member
Activity: 476
Merit: 255
September 02, 2014, 10:46:13 PM
I've invested some business with bitcoin Cheesy and take profit from it ,
what it can call spending bitcoin Cheesy
legendary
Activity: 1400
Merit: 1001
September 02, 2014, 10:43:52 PM
spent over 80+ btc on altcoins -_-
I don't think this so much counts as spending your bitcoin, but is rather speculating that the price of a scamcoin will increase.

I feel the same way. But if you are certain that your ability to speculate with alt coin is great you can earn. But most of the time I see massive loss only...
member
Activity: 84
Merit: 10
September 02, 2014, 10:39:57 PM
spent over 80+ btc on altcoins -_-
I don't think this so much counts as spending your bitcoin, but is rather speculating that the price of a scamcoin will increase.
legendary
Activity: 1400
Merit: 1001
September 02, 2014, 10:35:13 PM
I am spending bitcoin. I try to use bitcoin as traditional currency. It is the way it suppose to be in my opinion. Not stacking it and waiting for higher price...
legendary
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September 02, 2014, 10:25:11 PM
I'm not really spending them anymore. I spent a lot of them monthly when I was mining Bitcoin. I paid as many of the mining bills as I could using Bitcoin. I even bought box fans to blow on the mining rigs using an Amazon gift card from SpendBitcoins. Now that I don't mine anymore I hold them. I know I should spend them and replace the ones used but that's too much of a hassle and I'm lazy.
Coinbase has a feature that is called something along the lines of spend and recharge. It allows you to buy something with bitcoin in your coinbase account from a merchant that accepts bitcoin then coinbase will purchase an equal amount of bitcoin for you (debiting your bank account) so you end up with the same amount of bitcoin.

I think this is actually quite smart on their end because they would be making two fees, one from you repurchasing the bitcoin from them and one from the merchant.

Yeah, that whole "debiting your bank account" isn't working for me. I don't trust companies that have been around for 40 years to automatically debit my account. I'm certainly not going to trust two kids that have been running a Bitcoin business out of an apartment in San Francisco for a year and a half.
newbie
Activity: 37
Merit: 0
September 02, 2014, 09:08:14 PM
I just read this:
http://www.finance-guy.net/finblog/how-will-you-spend-your-bitcoin/10/8/2014

It raises an interesting point that if we spend Bitcoin to buy stuff, the companies will most likely sell the BTC pretty quickly.

What do you think?

Will shopping with Bitcoin be good or bad for the price of BTC?

it is definitely good for the price, i mean it will affect other people' s opinion towards BTC, and push the government to accept it further,
meanwhile it will promote the popularity of BTC, which is quite good for raising the price of BTC.
sr. member
Activity: 308
Merit: 250
September 02, 2014, 09:06:18 PM
I'm not really spending them anymore. I spent a lot of them monthly when I was mining Bitcoin. I paid as many of the mining bills as I could using Bitcoin. I even bought box fans to blow on the mining rigs using an Amazon gift card from SpendBitcoins. Now that I don't mine anymore I hold them. I know I should spend them and replace the ones used but that's too much of a hassle and I'm lazy.
Coinbase has a feature that is called something along the lines of spend and recharge. It allows you to buy something with bitcoin in your coinbase account from a merchant that accepts bitcoin then coinbase will purchase an equal amount of bitcoin for you (debiting your bank account) so you end up with the same amount of bitcoin.

I think this is actually quite smart on their end because they would be making two fees, one from you repurchasing the bitcoin from them and one from the merchant.
sr. member
Activity: 672
Merit: 253
September 02, 2014, 07:15:32 PM
It will be bad for the price of Bitcoin, but it's important that people spend anyways. This is what will continue to get businesses to accept it and make people want to keep working on it.
newbie
Activity: 6
Merit: 0
September 02, 2014, 06:29:46 PM
Yes paying webhosting services Smiley
legendary
Activity: 2156
Merit: 1393
You lead and I'll watch you walk away.
September 02, 2014, 06:28:17 PM
I'm not really spending them anymore. I spent a lot of them monthly when I was mining Bitcoin. I paid as many of the mining bills as I could using Bitcoin. I even bought box fans to blow on the mining rigs using an Amazon gift card from SpendBitcoins. Now that I don't mine anymore I hold them. I know I should spend them and replace the ones used but that's too much of a hassle and I'm lazy.
legendary
Activity: 1190
Merit: 1000
Look ARROUND!
September 02, 2014, 06:19:17 PM
spent over 80+ btc on altcoins -_-
legendary
Activity: 1456
Merit: 1001
This is the land of wolves now & you're not a wolf
September 02, 2014, 12:55:01 PM
The last BTC that I spent was to purchase a Trezor bitcoin wallet.   I think I am going to purchase another one shortly.   If something happens to my current one, I don't want to have to order one then, and then wait a few weeks and all that...

I know I can load it into wallet32 or whatever, but I would rather just reboot onto another Trezor
member
Activity: 84
Merit: 10
September 02, 2014, 12:17:20 PM
People will spend their Bitcoin when it goes higher, so you don't feel like you are wasting money. We need whales to help us with this.
member
Activity: 111
Merit: 10
September 02, 2014, 09:57:13 AM
I just read this:
http://www.finance-guy.net/finblog/how-will-you-spend-your-bitcoin/10/8/2014

It raises an interesting point that if we spend Bitcoin to buy stuff, the companies will most likely sell the BTC pretty quickly.

What do you think?

Will shopping with Bitcoin be good or bad for the price of BTC?
People are more likely to hold and collect bitcoin rather than spending into shopping
newbie
Activity: 44
Merit: 0
September 02, 2014, 09:33:20 AM
I just bought 3 BTC from some one via IRC and I intend to buy sold gold and a cassacius coin. I can't spell it haha. I have been on a bitcoin break for a few months but I am back and want a coin!
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