Bitcoin Forum

My first BTC trade is with my local fruit & veg stall. In Manchester, UK. An excellent roadside stall (that was recently threatened by 'gentrification', but saved due to a facebook outcry) mentioned, jokingly on twitter, that they would accept bitcoin. I said I'd hold them to their promise and explained how to set up an account. Getting my £5/(~0.4BTC)'s worth of Fruit & Veg tomorrow!

Don't know if they're planning to accept BTC generally or whether this is an experiment. I'll encourage them though.

Anyone else get anything as basic as your bananas through bitcoin?

Sounds cool, would be fun to mess around with but see it being impractical for the average stall.

Yep. It obviously requires planning beforehand. Depends on how bitcoin goes with app-wallets and such I suppose. And whether the waiting-for-confirmation can be sped up (although people used to trust cheques that took a few days etc.)

Anyway, if I'm the only one who trades with them through BTC I don't mind.

What about a laptop next to the veggies?  :)

what about some physical bitcoint payment method? is anyone working on that?

I know this couldnt be totally safe, but creditcards and other electronic payment systems arent either.
with some e-terminal and a chipcard that only releases a certain amount of coins after you enter a code (like girocard in europe) could be reasonably safe.

Such as this?

http://bitbills.com/

I did suggest a laptop on the stall. It rains an awful lot in Manchester and the stall isn't particularly well covered. Maybe not the best idea. I reckon password-protected phone apps that connect to secure online wallets would be best. The relatively high value of single BTCs would mean you would have to buy a LOT of fruit & veg at once, or somehow give change in decimals? Those bitbills seemed to be in 1BTC-20BTC denominations.

As someone mentioned, might not be best suited to this sort of exchange (maybe a 'subscription service' where you paid for a month's veg in advance or something.). Still, the novelty is amusing.

vegetables for bitcoin, very nice!  so far I've only seen junkfood type stuff for sale in bitcoin.

thanks for the link. though not exactly what I had in mind. these things would have to have similar security measures as cash do and be quite expensive because you have to destroy them each time they are spent.

Nice, I am about 80 miles away from Manchester so bit too much of a round trip for some fruit and veg. Nice to see retailers taking bitcoins onboard even if it was meant jokingly!

No, they wouldn't. 

Where?

There should be a map of retailers who accept bitcoins.

^ There should be.....

Very nice.

I only know of this veg stall so I've added it to this map (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=218371437625085013946.0004a5e37d3cef94273d3).

Add any businesses you know! [will xpost elsewhere].

Also spotted this map (http://www.umapper.com/maps/view/id/84618/)

It has a few more things on it. I expect (hope) that, with listing traders/users geographically, the map might get a little cramped. So the one for  IRL businesses only might still be worth updating.