I did try to keep my bitcoins intact as an investment...
But then i discovered two great startups (interesting, both from my home country Slovenia), that let me pay for anything without worrying about my investment.
Cashila https://www.cashila.com/Lets me pay bills using bitcoins. Works by converting bitcoins to EUR at the current exchange rate and paying for anything via SEPA. It's great if you are from the EU. Usually I use them when paying for my gsm bill, when i want to cash out bitcoin to my bank account, or i need to pay a friend, hehe.
The other one is
Reload by Bitnik https://reload.bitnik.eu/Keeps an eye for outgoing transactions from my wallet address and every time i make a purchase - it instantly buys the same amount from the exchange of my choice.
Now i can freely spend my bitcoins on almost anything, and when i do, my btc balance stays the same.
Give them a try and spend bitcoins whenever you can
Great idea, thanks. In connection with cashila, could you please advice about the costs? Are there any fixed fees or the fee is based on the amount you transfer via SEPA? I'll have a detailed look on it later on, but I'm sure you can summarize the cost part more straight forward then their website which is usually more marketing oriented
At Cashila the fee is based on the amount you transfer - it's a fixed 1% for every incoming transactions, outgoing are free. Check out the official announcement here at Bitcointalk, you should be able to get a 0% fee for testing the service
I have big trust issues with such websites. I didn't mind keeping money in Coinbase, I didn't mind using Uphold, but I sure as hell would not trust those unless they somehow managed to gain immersive reputation, receive investments etc. Just have heard to many horror stories about scams.
Bitnik has bitcoin ATMs all around Slovenia. Haven't tried the ATM yet, but Reload works as expected.. best part it is free
Cashila on the other hand did receive investments - as a startup they got seed funding from LAUNCHub, you can see them in their portfolio at
http://launchub.com/portfolio/Also they have a license by the Czech National Bank, are regulated, and are very reputable from where i come..