Topic: Name something you've actually BOUGHT with bitcoin - page 12. (Read 20296 times)

A speedboat trip to Phi Phi Islands...Just got back from Phuket and saw a shop advertising Bitcoin, bought a days island hopping ticket using bitcoin:)

1. A DVD drive
2. Payments to those who've worked damn hard to figure out mining issues
3. Paid for online roulette on 22, black, even, 2nd 1/3rd ... and it HIT.

I honestly understand the "this-is-an-investment-I'll-never-spend-these-coins" people out there -- but unless you're willing to help adoption and foster the currency as a, ya know, ACTUAL currency, you're missing out. Do I hope to get lots of $$$ out of BTC? Sure. But I'm much, much more interested in BTC as a new world changing currency and network than I am if I can "get rich quick".

I made 2 very nice aluminum rigs for my friends out here and requested they pay me in LTC or BTC. But they wouldn't. They simply would not do it. Their thinking was that if they paid me (and this was just today) 4 LTC, so about $80, for their open rigs and in 6 months LTC hits $50, they just paid $200 for an open rig ... NO, NO, NO, NO. You paid $80 for it. That's how currency works. It's value is set to whatever the hell it is RIGHT NOW. Speculation and hoping for that big swing in the spot price is just that: wishing. If you are going to change your BTC for actual, real, physical goods, then it's worth is only as good as the price you're willing to pay RIGHT. NOW.

My issue is that if they're unwilling to actually use the currency as such, then where is their faith that it has real value? We know its a REAL currency now, that debate is over; I just don't think it's helping the widespread use and inherent value of crypto currencies if you're unwilling to spend them.

Iphone 5c (before apple banned the blockchain app). Hopefully the new NSA proof phone will hit the market soon and that will be the next thing I'll buy with bitcoin mates

Adding: much food, little doge, litecoin as a gift and converting as little as possible into cash..to help with electricity 

Amazon Gift Card
other gift card
Maple syrup
Some small collectable items
Web hosting

Hopefully soon, more people will spend their BTC

@kluge - remember, fisting is a thing - how do you think butt-holes get big enough for that?

I forgot - I also bought some vpn services with bitcoin.

I recently did my first real bitcoin purchase of a $20 steam card.

I have not physically purchased anything with bitcoin yet.   I have sold some back into USD, and the only other time I spent btc was to pay off super bowl bets that went the wrong way...lol. 

VPN service yesterday so we don't have to watch the annoying NBC "coverage" of the Olympics!  Don't get me wrong.  I am female and I like  heartwarming stories about the athletes but lately I feel like there is very little sports to watch.

VPN service, software, and several gifts (clothes, decals, jewelry). Surprising none of the things I got were marked up at all. In fact I got an additional discount on the jewelry that I bought since I used BTC (I think the seller wanted some BTC really).

........ inflatable..... Why would.... I.... 

Inflatable butt plugs (2), Lelo magic wand, nJoy butt plug, all delivered fuckin' fast, from cryptosextoys.com thanks, fendlestick!

also, services.

Cat food.
Car repairs.
Paid gardeners who rake leaves, trim bushes, cut lawn, etc monthly - twice now.
Speaker fees. 
Most recently, a nice wool peacoat from overstock.com. 
Several other things. 

Where to start.

Samsung SG4,
A laser printer,
An über cool laser pointer from bitlasers,
Repeated VPN services from various providers,
Stickers (i.e. Bitcoin accepted here),
Physical bitcoins,
A Yubikey,
Various donations to charity, blog tipping, GGB girls,
T-shirts,
Registration fees to bitcoin conferences,
Cupcakes,
and much, much more.

That's why I don't tend to purchase any thing with Bitcoin unless it's something like purchasing food etc.

delicious thai curry via http://www.lieferservice.de

I've bought steam games with Bitcoin.

I've bought wow gametime twice at https://bitcoincodes.com/index.php?unit=store&op=browse&cat=7

That's one theory.  Precious metals and a lot of other valuable and 'successful' things kind of argue against that though.

Another theory is that if everyone is using the global persistent block chain for everything all of the time, the nature of the Bitcoin network will change in ways that would make the solution lose a lot of the features that many of us value.  Like, say, being being widely distributed on an infrastructure level (and thus, quite robust and hard to manipulate.)

To me the best of both worlds is to have Bitcoin (or something like it) have it's current highly distributed strengths while a plethora of alternates service the global consumer load and rest their value on how much BTC they are associated with (among other things.)

Bitcoin has some design issues and hitorical baggage which will make it hard to compete with purpose oriented alternates in various spheres (such as privacy, latency, etc) anyway and if it tries it will probably fail and eventually become a two-time loser.

In the mean time it is of value to try to push to the limits of the block size and start evaluating the impacts of transaction fees so it is great to see you trying to sell trinkets for BTC and I wish you the best of luck with it.

it could be very useful as an off shore tax haven that can be stored in your brain even if the market decided not to use it as a currency.