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I like the point that aside from illegal activities and investment opportunities there are really not a lot of legitimate uses for bitcoins. Only site I know th

I like the point that aside from illegal activities and investment opportunities there are really not a lot of legitimate uses for bitcoins. Only site I know that accepts bitcoins is buyincoins and that sells chinese knockoffs.

ChrisClark 13y ago
Places that accept bitcoins: https://www.spendbitcoins.com/places/ https://www.spendbitcoins.com/places/ And not just listing web sites, but physical locations too. For a map of physical store that accept bitcoins, http://coinmap.org/ http://coinmap.org/ is a great site.
lukifer 13y ago
Saving 3+% in credit card fees is good for buyers and sellers alike. There's always the option to pay 1-2% for voluntary escrow for eBay/Craigslist/etc, but for purchases from reputable companies (Amazon), it would be unnecessary. There are other advantages to crypto-coins, but that one alone is non-trivial. I don't expect that fiat currency is going away, but if the price and perception of BitCoins becomes stable enough (a big if), we'll see more and more trade, probably with BTC discounts to account for its deflationary nature.
pi-rat 13y ago
Tons of online stores are accepting bitcoin, more and more joining every day. Shopify[1] recently added support for bitcoin - making it easy for their 75000 merchants to accept payment. Adafruit[2] (the hobbyist electronic store) as well. You can even pay with bitcoin on some subways[3].. [1] http://www.shopify.com/blog/10446157-shopify-merchants-can-now-accept-bitcoin http://www.shopify.com/blog/10446157-shopify-merchants-can-n... [2] http://www.adafruit.com/bitcoin http://www.adafruit.com/bitcoin *[3] http://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2013/11/25/buy-with-bitcoin/ http://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2013/11/25/buy-with-...