Topic: Have you actually used bitcoin for any payment in your country? (Read 732 times)

   No. I've never used crypto in my country like in a cafee or something like that.
The only thing I done is buying through internet from another country, but that was bad experience, the man just disappeared. So, since that moment I do not even try to.

you are lucky man, my country is one hell of a place, most people are very slow in adapting to technologies like this, they either call it scam or don't think it will succeed, but am here, waiting and hoping for a day when crypto will be very popular over here as it is in some major countries of the world, by then, I can spend crypto to buy close to anything I want

I know some merchants related to selling electronics accepts bitcoin as payments but they are not having this feature in public for some reasons so if I have bitcoin then I can buy things with it.

Yes, I actually used my Bitcoin for any payment in my country such as electric bill, water bill, internet bill,
cable bill, tuition fee's, and also for remittances or money transfer through bank cash in. And bitcoin was not the
only digital currency allowed to my country, We can able to use Ethereum, XRP, and BCH too.

Yea, they also convert your bitcoin to local currency and can send them to your bank account which will be easier to spend through ATM card or send them to any money transfer company. Its good there is this platform and I hope in the future they can also be used in buying things like pizza online and be connected with Lazada or OLX so one can shop online easily with no hassle.

in my country I have not agreed that there will be payments through bitcoin and etherum, so far only bitcoin has been made for investment and trading

I was actually going to do that because we have a very useful exchange site that can also be use to pay bills and game purchases but the idea that bitcoin is just popping in value always at 2017 stopped me. However, I tried it one time to load my mobile sim card and I have never paid anything with btc after.

i have a debit card with bitcoin wallet (wirex) and i use it to buy almost everything in my country...

I've used eth and btc online to pay for goods but people in my country are still apprehensive towards Cryptocurrency

I mainly used BTC for withdrawal, BTC to my local fiat. Maybe the exchange fee, you know transactions always have a fee.
As long as i know, I didn't use it to pay for my bills or buying things with Bitcoin.
But there's a lot of merchants here that accepts BTC.

I haven't and to be fair I wouldn't for the time being. Paying my bills using e-banking has no fees in my country. If you are asking about paying for groceries on point of sales I also use my debit cards, as again as a consumer I get charged 0 transaction fees (the bank fees are charged on the merchant). So even if the fees are 30cents it wouldn't be economical wise to pay for these. Now lets say per month I use my debit cards 100 times on average. This sums to 30 bucks on fees every month if I was using bitcoin transactions. Instead using debit cards all fees are paid by the merchant side. Also 99.99% of transactions are instant. What we told people that transactions using bitcoin were instant and feeless was a lie after some time. Perhaps it was like this in the beginning but this changed a lot. Especially in the end of 2017 when we had a million pending transactions and 50$ fees. Probably things will change with the use of lightning network but for the time being, looking at the best options you have for payments, these are ebanking and debit cards.

I did for a couple of times. Here in our country, we are allowed to transact and use bitcoin as a mode of payment.
We can pay straight to our utility providers through our platform which is coins.ph.
It made every transaction more convenient and faster and we could actually gain rebates through it.

In my recent trip to Singapore I have used, many cryptos as a currency, I even paid in DAI while purchasing tickets to Universal Studios.

Bitcoin is actually making our lives more convenient in our country. It's multifunctional, it's not just good for a long term investment but the fastest mode of payment as well. We're using it to buy mobile electronic load, to pay utility bills and even to pay for tuition fees in chosen universities. There are also establishments who are planning to adopt bitcoin.

unfortunately for me , i havent used crypto to pay for anything ever since i got involved in 2016, though i do have a couple  of friends who have sucessfully bought some great items with btc and eth , the last time i tried paying my phone bill with crypto, the fee was really out of this world so i backed out and never tried again

not once the problem in my country is that it still prohibits users from making payments using bitcoin and other crypto until the garbage government legalizes bitcoin

Nothing direct transaction for now but we use btc then jist converted to our fiat currency then use for online payment like internet, pay bills, buy load and even for online shopping we can use that. We have wallet called coins. Ph, it has lot of features  like having btc, eth, bch and xrp wallet and of course our main peso wallet. Hopefully the day comes where btc can use direct transaction in physical and online world

Yes I did use it as a payment in our country I used our local wallet to buy some cellular load and also to top up some of my online games.
I also use it to pay some online merchant that I know luckily I have a friend who sells some online product and I use my crypto to pay for some products for my wife as gift.

It has been years that I am using my local bitcoin exchange in topping up my phone because of the rebates afterwards.
I bought also in an online shop via bitpay. I prefer not to touch my bitcoin as much as possible.
Having bitcoin is like a reserved option for me because I believe that one day, its value will grow again.

I've bought with Bitcoin a good couple of times. But not lately, since the crypto winter has come.

First time was very strange and rather stressful. It was at an online shop and the payment processor (Netopia) has a time limit (20 minutes?) for seeing the transaction (not the confirmations!). I made a mistake: I tried to pay by withdrawing from an exchange. Of course, the exchange didn't send in time, so I had to discuss with their support and so on.
Next times I knew and used my own wallet. And everything went fine. Of course, they need a number of confirmations. Of course, I've learned meanwhile that the shop interface doesn't update in time to show that there are the confirmations and everything is OK, so now I just don't follow the process after I've sent the coins. Most of the things I bought with Bitcoin were from this one online shop.

Another surprise was when another shop was using BitPay as payment processor. I didn't know what to do, since it was no address to send to. Luckily I've pasted that "invoice" into Electrum and it knew what to do with it.

I've also paid one my bills with Bitcoin, but that was only a test and I found the excess they were asking for their services was a bit big.


I bought Bitcoin at self-pay machines. I've seen Bitcoin ATMs lately, but I didn't use them (yet?). I've used also some local exchanges.
The means to buy, sell or spend Bitcoin are slowly growing in Romania, I can't complain.