Are you a Doomsday Prepper?
How are you using BTC in your plans to prepare for any doomsday scenario?
I am not a doomsday prepper but I have looked around for who is actually accepting BTC in the field of metal things, seeds, and nonregulated things generally. To be prepared and to do so without someone looking up your shirt or down your pants does not a doomsday prepper make, I just happen to like what I like without you liking to know what all it happens to be. There are some folks here and there, you usually have to just look. Truth be told, BTC may not be the most ideal choice for those kind of purchases, but it may be a much better possibility next year (in 2015) due to the growth of stealth technology and also the coming of, you guessed it, Zerocash, which when released will make many bitcoin users able to sleep a bit easier.
Now the question then, can you get things like seed, food, most tools you would need for ordinary work, some tools you'd need for bench work, reloading and so forth, in other words, things you might need for most daily this and that, with BTC? Yes but it would take quite a bit of digging to do so. To do so with OpenBazaar (a decentralized market system based on bitcoin) and similar systems would be a task at the moment because those markets are emerging - in any given moment there may be somewhere between 50 and 70 percent (growing) of the world's economy churning through (mostly) undetectable (though not exactly anonymous at the moment) SystemD. In this manner when all is said and done, in less than 15 to 20 years' time, truly and well regulated economic systems which also include well-traced units of currency (where said traced regulated units are not disposed of quickly) will likely become less than 5 to 10 percent of the world's economy (variable, but this is a fair estimate, examining developments in the USA, Russian Federation, Belarus, North Korea, and a few other choice places). BTC is not anonymous. It does not function in an anonymous way, although in 2015 it will be interchangeable with token systems that will indeed be anonymous and for which the consensus will be developed differently. One example is Zerocash, which will allow purely transparent bitcoin users to exchange with the (anonymous token) Zerocash users, without any conflict between the consensus systems in Zerocash and the consensus systems that also guard against double spend in standard bitcoin.