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Yes, I bought TONS of Casascius coins! 95% of gifts people will be getting from me are bitcoins  ;D

Lol, I hope there are enough BTC enthusiasts in your office that you didn't reveal yourself.

lol so far the poll is showing people aren't giving bitcoins for Christmas.

And the poll starts pulling the other way  :P

I voted yes, but I lied

-1 for the Yes crowd. :D

was yes on top? if it was on bottom i may have clicked the wrong one anyway

Damn hippies!  ;D

maybe, but I answered "no" because it is too valuable to be given, even 1 btc,
I have them physical, but no way I would give that away :)

we can talk about bitcoin, but you can buy your own :)

That's a great idea. I hate going to the shops buying shit and now I'll have to buy some christmas present to my colleagues. Instead I'll just generate a vanity address, send the amount of coins equal to the worth that the presents have to be and the private key will be my gift.

A better question would be: Are you giving me Bitcoin for xmas? 1FC2EvgPXrHoqgNMg7gm5mjK4656XPpLmZ

I gave several gifts that i bought with Bitcoins. Is that giving Bitcoin, or not?

Right now, most people really don't value getting a Casascius coin or something like that, because it takes other actions before one can spend it, people don't understand "cryptocurrency", etc.
The ones to whom i've given them were suspicious and unappreciative. I think there is a good chance they will somehow lose or even throw away the value in them.

So, i think it's more useful to just buy gifts with Bitcoin for now.

I voted Yes, which really means "perhaps, if I can pull my fingers out and get around to it". My auntie Mira seemed fascinated enough by BTC to be happy to hear me talk about it for over an hour to her - and she's far from a serious technophile - so she might be deserving of a little appreciation. :)

Last year I gave casascius coins to immediate family, younger cousins, and a few others.  Where children were involved, they seemed to grasp pretty quickly that I was giving them something kind of like gold that they could spend over the internet.  Then I gave the coins to the parents, explaining only that they were valuable and should be kept in safekeeping until the recipients were older.

That approach worked pretty well.  For a brief period in time I was called "eccentric" rather than "crazy", and I still occasionally get asked by one of them how much their bitcoins are worth.

So I'll be giving them out again this year.  Why quit what produces positive results?

The gift of bitcoins that can't be redeemed until Christmas 2013:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/12679676/pichost/agfyJJG3118.jpg

I thought about it, but talked to my wife and she said it was a bad idea.  People just wouldn't understand, would think it was a weird gift, etc.  Like imanikin said, I have a feeling it would just be an unappreciated gift.  People who aren't interested in Bitcoin might put it on the same level as fruitcake or something.

I think it is far better to use Bitcoin to purchase gifts with.  For example, I bought my reddit secret santa gift with Bitcoin.

wtv man, bitcoins is my gift, take it or leave it,
thanks for the over sized sweater i will never wear, and the gift card i will more then likely forget each and every time i go to the place.

*their must be something wrong with me, i no longer like getting gifts on xmas

I will give a 5BTC Cascasius coin to my uncle. He want to buy some but her wife did not give the "ok" even if they are already rich. She think it's a scam and I'm stupid. I wont give any BTC to my relative that don't have interest in them since they will most likely waste them.

+1 Bee Brothers (http://www.beesbros.com/bitcoin-store.html) make great gift boxes. Bitcoin Alpaca socks (http://www.grasshillalpacas.com/alpacaproductsforbitcoinoffer.html) are nice this time of the year in northern hemisphere.  :)

There is of course a ton of other vendors in the B world now. And that's more useful to the success of Bitcoin itself in the long run.

Plus, wherever i buy gifts for fiat, i always tell them that i want to pay with B in the future.

but give them the coins and then can choose what they want to buy.

you dont send to their address until then?



they say, what can I buy for this, just drugs?

i gave silver as gift once, halfway toward the same feeling, but people on average know silver's worth something :P. The crucial point we will reach is when the average person KNOWs bitcoin's worth something. maybe 5 years in.

No - the funds are at an address that can not be determined until a secret is reveled on christmas day 2013. Its a plug for my site lbaat.net (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128581.0). Basically your secret and lbaat secret combined make private key to address. Since you need both secrets, lbaat.net can't ever know anything of value.

so we're dependant on that site maintaining its service

Yes, this is true.

Although all secrets are connected, so all you need is the seed if the site were to ever go away. We have a solution to that problem, but not worthwhile at the moment.

Ouch...

lol at "his" wife.  ::)

lol this poll when to shit. LOL

lol i just got it