Topic: What was your first face-to-face transaction that you spent your bitcoins on? - page 2. (Read 1770 times)
August 10, 2014, 03:44:01 PM
What I really want is to be able to pay in fiat and get the change in BTC, that would be cool
August 10, 2014, 03:41:34 PM
Never had a face-to-face transaction using Bitcoins. TBH, I find fiat to be more practical in f2f transactions. Bitcoins are ideal for digital / online commerce. Just my opinion though and the conveience of f2f transactions is bound to imrpove over time.
FWIW, my experience was extremely smooth. The server simply handed me a tablet where I could add any tip to the bill and then press a button. After the button press I was presented with a qr code. I snapped a pic of it with my android bitcoin wallet and pressed send. 10 seconds later the server said, "cool" and that was that.
My friend and I talked about the fact that the restaurant didn't seem worried about my transaction getting confirmations and the we realized that restaurants already have a kind of trust system---you can get away with dine-and-dash if you are that kind of asshole. The system is basically one where you pay your bill properly in order to maintain honor at that particular restaurant.
August 10, 2014, 03:31:18 PM
Never had a face-to-face transaction using Bitcoins. TBH, I find fiat to be more practical in f2f transactions. Bitcoins are ideal for digital / online commerce. Just my opinion though and the conveience of f2f transactions is bound to imrpove over time.
August 10, 2014, 03:30:32 PM
My first was the purchase of a cable for a 5.25in floppy drive at Free Geek in Vancouver, BC last year.
August 10, 2014, 03:09:03 PM
I just did my first face-to-face purchase at Fuel Sports bar in Seattle, USA. Very cool experience. What's weird is I didn't even know they were taking bitcoins until very rcently. Makes me wonder if any other places in my area take BTC. I would definitely do it again. Felt really good to trade btc for delicious beer!
August 10, 2014, 02:33:43 PM
Nowheres. But I don't buy anything face-to-face except for food and gas anyway.
August 10, 2014, 02:31:07 PM
I agree with the folks who said they prefer to hold bitcoin and spend fiat. That's generally my strategy these days too. Still, it was fun to at least once, do a face-to-face bitcoin purchase. Yummy beer and food for btc, I felt like the future had arrived 
August 10, 2014, 09:05:41 AM
I haven't done any face to face transactions yet I would like to find a store which would accept Bitcoin in that manner around my local area though.
August 10, 2014, 04:16:46 AM
I haven't spent my coins on anything yet, partly because I haven't got many and would like to hold on to them for a while, but also because there's nothing I've really wanted to spend them on so far, but hopefully that will change soon enough.
August 10, 2014, 04:13:45 AM
I recently had my first experience paying for food and beverages in a restaurant using BTC. It was a really fun experience to use bitcoins "in the real world" and not just for internet commerce. I'm wondering what other people's first experence using their bitcoins fact-to-face was like.
I prefer FIAT for F2F Tx. Bitcoin is online money and an investment asset for me. I prefer to spend my FIAT and HODL Bitcoin
August 10, 2014, 04:13:24 AM
I think it's difficult as it is at the moment to actually spend coins online never mind instore. I heard there's a lot of shops in Amsterdam that accept it and I'll probably be going there later this year so I'll probably try my first face to face transaction there.
August 10, 2014, 04:03:58 AM
Haven't had that pleasure yet. There's no place to buy anything with bitcoin where I live, I can't even buy anything online with bitcoin in my backwards country 
August 10, 2014, 03:26:19 AM
I recently had my first experience paying for food and beverages in a restaurant using BTC. It was a really fun experience to use bitcoins "in the real world" and not just for internet commerce. I'm wondering what other people's first experence using their bitcoins fact-to-face was like.
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