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Feel free to think outside the box on the question. If a similar thread is available, would somebody be so kind and point it out for me?

Basically, I'm seeking abstract suggestions.

I was just about to post the same thread regarding this. Brainstorming will be good!

Tech from Japan, or Asia in general, a lot of the stuff is never sold in Europe or the US because of market protective trade restrictions.

 

Anything and everything on amazon.com would be nice  :D

Which means it could still be confiscated by customs right?

Rent and Utilities....  but we're a long way off for that  :'(

It would be nice if I could buy a preconfigured FPGA or ASIC box, already set up with p2pool. Just plug it into the AC and LAN (or USB?), open 192.168.x.x in a web browser, enter your address, and watch the coins trickle in.

I don't know much about computer hardware, but I've got "free" electricity and would like some anonymous bitcoins.

Real estate. I want 40 or more acres of wilderness. Preferably in the north woods of Wisconsin. I will pay with $ if I have to, but paying in BTC would be the bomb.

"BTC Buy sells gift cards, so you can use Bitcoins to make Amazon.com purchases, albeit indirectly"
 -  http://greycoder.com/where-can-i-spend-bitcoins/

No, You can buy it as a private person legally, You cannot import it for resale. The japanese web shops are in Japanese and hard to read as an European.

I'm thinking in line of cheap tablets, laptops and products where there are high profit margins for the distributors.
Normally a $100 product in Japan costs $200 in the US and $300-400 in Europe if bought in a store!

Spend Bitcoins acts as an intermediary with an Australian bill payment network allowing certain utilities to be paid using bitcoins.

I pay for both of those with Bitcoin.

Utilities are included in my rent and I convinced my landlord to make a Coinbase account with a payment page.

How about a resort on the Pike Chain, south of Iron River, Wisconsin? Comes complete with a bar/lounge and 6 cabins. Did I mention the bar? The patriarch passed away 3-4 years ago, and I believe the son & daughter are considering selling. From visiting the resort four times, all two week vacations, believe me when I tell you the fishing is great. Did I mention the bar? http://www.pinepointlodge.net/

Come to think of it, this would be great to set up as the first all Bitcoin resort.

http://www.pinepointlodge.net/images/view%20from%20lake.jpg

I guess nothing ever became of this: http://bitcoinisland.org/

But, consider this: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/top-10-private-islands-sale-350000/story?id=17932025#9

I predict that by the end of the year (2013), an island will be sold via Bitcoin.

I would think that smaller website starting to use Bitcoin will be a good think. Like Maplins and other tech shops, that are indirectly assist Bitcoins growth.

Also maybe one of the governments actually making a speech including Bitcoin would help, just the snap out the humours that they are just hiding away from it, hoping it will faze out.

Hm. At some point, I'm going to move and rent my house out. I'll post an ad in Craigslist stating the price in BTC, with no mention of $. We'll see what happens.

Offer a slightly discounted rate for btc to encourage its use :-) 

Yeah... What'll happen, though, is that I'll end up renting to some miner who will cause my house to get flagged as a grow house due to power consumption, and the cops will kick in the door and mess up my property.

What I really think is harder to acquire with bitcoins, it's not physical items, as soon as someone from Japan falls in love with bitcoins and realizes he could buy and resell for profit, it's done.

Besides poetrol/gasoline I don't know but, what will be more dificult to have with bitcoins are, actual services. Lawyers, plumbers electricians. Hell, hair salons.

i have mentioned it in a few other threads but here it goes again

fast food outlets

namely ones which have web access food ordering portal where it gets delivered within the hour
most countries (weirdly not america) use these guys Just-eat.com (http://Just-eat.com)

imagine it. you go to the website, click your national flag, type in your postcode/zipcode. Then find your favourite nearby fastfood restaurant in the list, select your food. Then on payment screen it offers bitcoins.

now wouldn't that be something.

anyone know of any good PR/Sales people that have experience of convincing businesses into adopting bitcoin? this could be your next project.

so far there has not been much attention due to the demograph of this forum mostly being american. but hopefully someone that lives near their regional offices, that has great bitcoin adoption skills/success, will take this idea on.

Food,
concert tickets,
eBay items,
airline flights,
cars,
light bulbs,
movies,
golf,
TV advertising,
land, houses,
and a few sleazy politicians.

abstract?
...thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances.

Can Bitcoins beam me into the future, yet? I would like to visit some of the places seen in various Star Trek shows.

Perhaps atypical would have been a better word choice.

Regardless, here's a list of things I'm planning on offering via Bitcoin within a year (inspired by some suggestions), along with overseeing Bitcoin 100:

• Property
• Furniture
• Automobiles (along with most other motor vehicles)
• Planes
• Boxcars & Cabooses (not sure about the engines, definitely not the track, but a RR truss bridge, sans the track, is not out of the question)
• Airline Tickets
• Cruises
• A once in a lifetime trip around the world.
• Concert Tickets
• Dinner with a politician or some other notable.
• Fine Dinning
• Vacations at a high-end resort.
• Hotel Stays
• Indie Art
• Insurance (health/death life)
• Cemetery Plots
• Antiquities/Antiques
• One-of-a-kind items.
• Hardware/Software
• Animals
• Entire Estates (due to somebody passing)

No one said sex. You know, real sex.

the boxcar/caboose bit - would these be... well, deliverable? like, to land, to convert into a structure?

Amazing list Phinnaeus

It just got more amazing!


Doable! Now on the list.

some. well most of those listed items seem as if they are luxury/expensive items. and not day to day uses. although great if you have the FIAT to back the service offerings (suppliers and staff need to be paid to eat and live) a few of us are thinking of the 'essentials' such as food, utility bills, rents etc. which would then spur on the main streaming of bitcoin where the userbase no longer needs to handle FIAT for their livelihood.

and those that are working (mostly self employed) and not restricted to the FIAT only minimum wage laws have the freedoms of working and living purely on bitcoin. (well thats the ideal dream/goal)

but the occasional luxury item is also a great thing to offer, just hope the suppliers in the background will still be getting their contracted FIAT to make the luxury services sustainable.

Food and beer, over the counter and delivered at home. This will set the Bitcoin economy free by allowing consumers to use their BTC without going through exchanges that can always be killed by regulators.

BTW this seems a killer business idea in a large city like New York or London, is there anyone doing that already?

I had the same idea. You could start a company offering the items that AREN'T offered commonly throughout Bitcoinland. The business could start small and grow and grow as bitcoin grows. The only downfall is all Amazon would have to do is implement bitcoin payments in 24 hours and shut you down  :(. Unless you offered some kind of anonymity, that is the only advantage for long-term success with a company like this over Amazon.

Future ASIC mining rigs :D

I am an accountant, would there be any kind of market to have your tax return done for Bitcoin?  Just something I was thinking about.

-Hookers
-Diapers
-Cigs

WTF do you have in mind?  :'(

That would be cool, but it's just more than I have. As far as buying a small island; well, I worry that in 20 years it will be in the surf.

Lol not for me, just saying in general. Actually, count me in for the diapers. My lil girl is a poop factory.

I'd be more than pleased to be shut down by Amazon accepting bitcoin.

My drugs... Owait

I guess groceries, my water and electricity bills, and other day to day stuff

I don't believe Amazon will implement what I have in store. FYI: I was informed to replace "Date with a legal prostitute." with "Brothel Vouchers". Looking over the details, and hope to have ten available sometime after beta.

The updated list:

• Property
• Furniture
• Automobiles (along with most other motor vehicles)
• Planes
• Boxcars & Cabooses (not sure about the engines, definitely not the track, but a RR truss bridge, sans the track, is not out of the question)
• Airline Tickets
• Cruises
• A once in a lifetime trip around the world.
• Concert Tickets
• Dinner with a politician or some other notable.
• Fine Dinning
• Vacations at a high-end resort.
• Hotel Stays
• Indie Art
• Insurance (health/death life)
• Cemetery Plots
• Antiquities/Antiques
• One-of-a-kind items.
• Hardware/Software
• Animals
• Entire Estates (due to somebody passing)
• Brothel Vouchers

If you could somehow implement straight bitcoin payments with Amazon, I will have your children.   Which in itself would be an accomplishment worth scientific study since I'm a man. :)

Trying to accomplish said tasks is outside my expertise on both counts, albeit Amazon Vouchers may be possible.

I really wish this was possible but as seems unreachable :(

I'd settle for an automated system wherein someone sent in BTC to a webpage and it spit back out an amazon gift code. 
 
As it stands now I can trade BTC to users for gift codes, and for the time being I like that, but something automated on a trusted system would rock.  But not at an inflated rate, it would have to be straight-up value exchange.  I say this because there are folks in the btc world who still like to charge a premium, and it shouldn't be that way anymore.
 
Right now I can trade btc for amazon gift cards with a user who will trade at a value for more than I give him.  For instance, if I give him 1 btc at $20, he'll give me a card worth $22.  I only mention this because, in my opinion, the days of inflated btc for goods should be over for it to have a future.

I'd like to buy bank transfers in a currency of my choice with a destination of my choice (within limits, if necessary).

e.g. SEPA transaction of 100 EUR to Mr. John Doe, IBAN 1234..., BIC 1234..., Comment "Anonymous gift".

5 Minutes after sending my BTC to the broker, I get back a receipt that the transaction was accepted and will be executed by the next business day, then the next business day I get a mail that the transaction has taken place.

Ok, so I was at the grocery store earlier and they have this coin machine where you put in coins, and you can get a voucher to get cash back (in bills) from the cashier. 
 
One of the options, however, was to get it back in Amazon credit!   So I'll bet there's an API or something that you could use to set up where someone can send btc and get an Amazon code spit back at them. :)

btcbuy.info offers this amazon service exactly, and others too. used it myself a few times to buy amazon codes, add minutes to my cell phone, that sort.

I want to be able to buy candy bars, sodas, and Chinese food with 'coin. :)

If I could swap my BTC for credit on Amazon, I'd have almost everything I'd ever need.

Curious how a proper lady on a street corner would accept payment before getting in bed with someone, though.  Do they count as items?  Just kidding  ;D

indeed, if you have £5k upfront (as a reserve) to become a corporate client and predict to do £250k a year then you can have the API call any amount you want and receive a response of a code for that amount to display to customers instantly, with the only delay being what you set as how many BTC confirmations you desire to see before accepting BTC payment being complete.

so work out how much above or below gox prices you can easily sell your BTC for you to get FIAT ASAP to refill your reserves with guaranteed 0 delay. add on a couple % for your own profit, and thats the fee/ mark-up price you would display to customers. (volume discounts available so you could sell at MTGOX price and make your % profit from the volume discount)

the pseudocode for how it works is:
$5k in amazon waiting (reserve/float)
(cleintscreen)customer pays you BTC to a disposable address and gets a "waiting for confirmation 1 confirmation" screen
(serverside)blockchain shows BTC payment received.
(serverside)sends an API command to amazon corporate account with amount requested
(serverside)receive code response.
(cleintscreen)show to customer "payment received heres your code"

all ud then do is sell your BTC else where to receive your FIAT to refill your corporate client account reserve.

excuse the ££ but im from the UK, its the same system across the world from what i seen. but here is the link to the UK service if you want to start up a UK business (whoever is reading this)
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/gift-certificates/corporate/AmazonCorpGCOneSheetsVerUK2012.pdf (http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/gift-certificates/corporate/AmazonCorpGCOneSheetsVerUK2012.pdf)

The employee carries a phone with Brainwallet bookmarked or a passphrase-to-Bitcoin app, and has memorized her unique passphrase.

When she meets with a john she shows him the QR code and he sends the payment. If she has a madam to vet for her or a pimp to protect her, this person's computer sees the payment and automatically withdraws to a coin mixer before the act even finishes. (Hopefully. Any real man lasts six confirmations.)

After each john, the employee comes up with (or is given) a new passphrase.

In the event that the employee is arrested, there is no cash to seize. A skilled madam might not even meet her employees/clients in person, instead operating anonymously. Trusted clients are granted partial access to her tor-only portfolio. Employees receive local fiat money by dead drop or by mail.

Alternative setup: rely on the john to use Brainwallet himself, so the employee doesn't need a phone. It might be harder to convince a judge that someone who just says "4 curious eye beyond flower" before sex is a prostitute.

Btw my wife helped come up with this. Best. Wife. Ever.

How about a POS device that plugs into common retai systems for accepting BTC.  Have it take BTC and process them through a vendor like BitPay automatically.  Then as far as the retail seller is concern they just received $ and only had to pay 1% for the transaction instead of  3 to 4% for credit cards.

soundcloud
beatport
music industry: VST Plugins, samples, presets, ect.
They are all digital goods, suitable for bitcoin.

Thanks for the reminder of this site.  I couldn't remember it, and they used to charge commission, but now that it's straight-up I'll give it more use. :)

I want a Ryobi One+ 18v drill and impact driver.  With lithium battery and smart charger.

I want to buy them with bitcoin.

Is this too much to ask?

I'd do it if I didn't have so many BTC waiting to be sold already.
http://www.amazon.com/Ryobi-Lithium-Batteries-Intelliport-Charger/dp/B00AFCKOSG/

But is the A WAY to do it?

Human organs!

Why can't I sell someone my kidney or a lung or a finger?

Apple products. Or are they already available?

There's a video on YT of a guy who sold one of kidneys...

If you prepaid before meeting the hooker no one could prove you were having sex for money and its not 2 consenting adults since no physical cash changed hands.

Prepay a Hooker? My understanding was to never trust anyone with your bitcoin and now you have given them to a hooker! You are definitely gonna get screwed here.

I would like to see a direct transfer into my bank account (without inflated transaction costs). Interact Email transfer? Again inflated transaction costs and fees kill me.

As well shipping costs seem to be inflated for bitcoin purchases.

I would like

NewEgg stuff into the EU
Betfair trading
ExPat food parcels
Travel Tickets
home delivery service
General business services
Real Estate/Land

Myself!

No, seriously. I'd like to be paid in Bitcoin.

technically, I think it is against the law in most countries, but there is a growing black market for that, which means there is a demand.

BTC to the rescue!

You need to be a celebrity for that, write a book, or have an important job, or at least own a guitar.

Chocolate! NOMNOMNOMNOM!

This site might accept bitcoins if you ask them directly:

http://www.statelesssweets.com (http://www.statelesssweets.com)

This site already does:

http://mandrik.com/ (http://mandrik.com/)

Sweets in general would be awesome.

Oh! Or like this website, which sends you japanese candy around twice per month (http://www.candyjapan.com/), like a subscription. Somebody should suggest bitcoin to them...

Private islands

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSKqZu8l0jGzgGnNgrzatqRxnl06X7Ye4O0pfcqgdAXGTGHFPtb

Plane tickets.

It would be nice if I could pay my bills with bitcoins. Stuff like:

Insurance
Phone bill
rent

As a westerner living in China, this is something I have considered. Not even just tech, but acting as an intermediary for people wanting to buy *anything* [legal] from China, and wanting to pay in Bitcoins.

I'd like to watch the next Olympics on streaming video to my Roku, and pay for it with Bitcoin.

a magician whom only accepts BTC that comes to your house/office/school and does awesome tricks and teaches you some basic ones

A Swiss passport, complete with residency options.

I'd like to buy a 14 month old necro thread.

medicine, food, hotels and other cool stuff :)

http://fs.thebutterzone.com - Make sure to click More results at the bottom, until it disappears

How about planes helicopters and jet fighters?

I can show you how to make your Bitcoins disappear ;)

https://www.bitpremier.com/items/category/8/aircraft

I wish I could fly and live out of that Golden Eagle...

Where's my F15 eagle?