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U.S.A

Overstock.com, an online U.S retailer, has started accepting bitcoin as of January 9, 2014. However, the CEO of the site initially said that the company will accept bitcoins as payment in around June 2014. Regardless, this is the first major U.S e-tailer that will allow the customer to pay by virtual currency. Honestly, this could be a publicity stunt to call attention to the website, but it could also be a way to attract new customers.
Either ways, the CEO’s decision does increase support for the Bitcoin since this means that a huge online retailer is accepting digital currency. It also shows that the Bitcoin is slowly becoming main stream in a very short amount of time, and people are becoming more aware of the potential value it will have in the future.
This retailer may be the first major one to accept Bitcoin payment, but it is highly likely that more will follow suit very soon.
The Bank of America has stated that Bitcoin can potentially become a “major means of payment for eCommerce” and can also become competition to money transfer providers. It is rather interesting that a bank is expressing a positive opinion of Bitcoin and it shows that Bitcoin is gradually receiving wider support.
However, the bank further stated that if Bitcoin gets too big, the government might have to do something about it. This is not necessarily a concern, but it is definitely something to think about.
Sacramento Kings is the first U.S based sports team that is accepting Bitcoin. With this, the dynamic coin makes an entry into the sports world; we can imagine it’s here to stay.
Sean’s Outpost, a homeless outreach program, accepts donations in Bitcoin.
United Kingdom

Loudwater Estate Event Center, a wedding venue service in England, now allows payment in Bitcoin. Now you can even pay for your wedding in virtual money!
eBay U.K is allowing customers to sell bitcoins and other digital currencies.
Space Travel

A space company by the name of Virgin Galactic is actually accepting bitcoins for people to travel to space.
One person has already purchased a ticket by using bitcoins and the company expects more to follow suit. This, I think, is very amazing because who would have thought a few years ago that one could use digital currency to go into space?
Richard Branson calls Bitcoin futuristic and links it to forward thinking. This tactic is quite intelligent; allowing payment in Bitcoin will allow a new batch of consumers who do not have enough USD to instead use bitcoins to buy a ticket to space, and it will also raise bitcoins’ value.

In Japan, all banks accepted Bitcoin because the goverment already turn on the green lights for Bitcoin.

maybe Barclays accepting Bitcoin, found some news on the web. https://www.c[Suspicious link removed]m/2017/06/26/barclays-bitcoin-regulators-fca.html

Canada

The Bitcoin Foundation Canada educates people on what Bitcoin really is. Community building events are held as a way to increase awareness of bitcoins.
 In addition, the very first Bitcoin ATM was installed in a coffee shop in Vancouver. This innovative ATM allows bitcoins to convert to Canadian dollars and vise-versa.
Many more Bitcoin ATM’s have opened up in Canada following the first.
Quantum Properties, a real estate firm, has started accepting bitcoins as payment for properties

I can only speak for my country and its a BIG NO. No bank accepts Bitcoin as its not accepted as a legal tender means of making transaction.

I think it is unlikely that the bank will compete in the financial sector. Therefore, I do not know the bank, which would have reacted so calmly to this.

I think from now, their is no banks accepting bitcoin. But I know government studying this for future transaction. Because known all over the world.

No banks that I have heard of, however many gold dealers (including my favorite: Bullionstar) accept bitcoins.   For me, the fact that you can exchange bitcoin for gold gives more legitimacy to bitcoin than banks accepting bitcoin. 

I have not heard about any bank in my country accepting bitcoin and I have done not that research myself. I will take it upon myself to go from bank to bank in my country to carry out that research withing two weeks from now to ascertain the real truth about bitcoin acceptance by the bank. I hope to come back with a real answer.

So far I know, no bank in the world accept bitcoin yet. If they accept it, then it is a regular currency. So, we have to wait a little bit to see bitcoin as a regular currency.

still not but I am hopeful, soon there will be some.

Any bank don't want to use bitcoin or spread bitcoin because their job exists with money. All banks keep away than bitcoin.I think this situation will be broken because bitcoin may will be currency in the all world.

Banks accepting btc may be in future a day might come so that banks will start to accept btc.However so far i haven't seen anything like that in my local or national banks.Hopefully we can expect such things to happen in the future.I have seen banks accepting and dealing with stock and share like wise may be in the near future banks will start to accept btc and start selling and trading with it just like they do with stock and shares and play a third party role.

banks are still against bitcoin

A bank accepting bitcoin sounds quite unusual however, it makes total sense when you see it from a customer’s perspective. When you are holding bitcoins in your wallet and want to sell them, it usually takes days before you see money on your bank account. You need to go to an exchange platform that accepts your digital currency, set up an account, transfer your bitcoins and wait for the exchange to send a payment to your bank.

As far as I can tell, there is no bank that that currently accepts bitcoins, they see bitcoins as its main competitor and there is no way that they are going to accept bitcoins at all because to them it's a bubble and when it bursts people are going to lose a lot of money.

You can use your electronic wallet to charge your real account in the bank.

Same like me. here in my country there is still not banks that actually accepting bitcoin here in my country since we are just fewer users of bitcoin so i think it takes long time before more people here in my country will use bitcoin but hope so, that they will start using it in the future as a mainstream currency.

Apparently, there weren't any banks accepting bitcoin, all because it will be against the will and rules & regulations of the central bank of the country which they base their regulations depending upon if it will in favor of the government or their officials, which is definitely sometimes unfair.

Well, there is not one such bank yet. But soon, the government of many countries will try to infiltrate into bitcoin. It remains only to wait.