Bitcoin Forum

In some countries bitcoin cannot be use to buy Real stuffs like food clothes and other goods and services but even though bitcoin can be used in plenty of ways mostly in the cyberworld it is used in online markets like Game Credits, Gadgets some use it in the dark webs to purchase weeds,drugs. Others are trading it to a different crypto-currency or exchanging to dollars, so how to you use it ? :)

Here in my country. Only few shops are only actually accepting bitcoin. And they are very far away. What i usually do is i convert it into cash so i can buy stuffs i want. I usually buy foods, clothes and other necessities. Bitcoin here in my country is not that popular. I think thats yhe reason why theyndont directly accept bitcoin as payment. Once all people here starts adapting bitcoin. Im sure many shops and establishment directly accept bitcoin.

At my place i don't see any store accepting bitcoin. But i have a store here and will accept bitcoin as soon as my new branch will open (at the city) And i am building my online shop also i accept bitcoin as a payment. I think if we accept bitcoin on selling physical goods we need a permit on my country. I don't know what are the exact requirements on accepting bitcoins. I hope we don't need a permit to accept bitcoin as a payment. Soon I will inquire the government on what are the requirements to accept bitcoin on payment method on my store.

I guess most or all of the countries doesnt accept bitcoin yet maybe they're are not ready for it right now. Hopefully in the future bitcoin will be well knowned and accepted as payments for anything :)

If you want to buy something from the place where Bitcoin is not directly accepted you can always use Bitcoin debit card and your problems are solved because like any other card it's accepted everywhere.
Looking from my perspective there are still too few stores and merchants that are accepting and promoting Bitcoin as a payment method.

We cannot describe that every country does not accept bitcoin. Several countries have stores that accept bitcoin, few countries that have got increased number of bitcoin stores were US, Brazil, China and so on. Recently Japan too have got a big increase in stores than the past year. Most of the time I'll convert to fiat as there is less acceptance for bitcoin within the country.

I'm using bitcoin as an extra source of income. I do invest it on my trusted sites which pays me up to 25% per month. Whenever I withdraw my earnings in those sites, I immediately exchange it into fiat to buy the things that I really need. Just spending my bitcoin wisely :)

I use Bitcoin rather for investment, than for spending it for shopping etc..
I always remember the story of a man, who bought two pizzas for thousands of bitcoins.  ;D
I know it's good when currency flows, but personally I don't think now it's time for letting your coins go.

I did spent my bitcoin for buying a hardware for building my gaming rig, good thing that the seller is also into bitcoins and accepts payment through it. I wish that I can use my bitcoin for ordering online like pizza but most of the time I'm using my bitcoins as cash. I just use it occasionally for buying things online, I prefer to convert it to fiat.

Eversince I joined thebitcoin community, i think of it as an exta source of income! It helps me a lot specially in my daily finances. It taught me how to earn money online. It also opened my mind on the idea of trading, gambling, investments and diferent kind of scam and how to avoid it.

As you said many shops and markets doesn't accept bitcoin as payment method so we had to find other ways to spent bitcoin.I generally do mobile recharge by bitcoin.And sometimes i buy some digital goods from online by bitcoin.Also i bought premium VPN license by using bitcoin as payment.And the rest of my bitcoin i put them to my cold wallet. 

In my country! Bitcoin can be spent via coins.ph and pay electric bills, telephone bills, even tuition fees are included on coins.ph. Bitcoin can buy mobile network loads too!

In my country, I can't use bitcoins to buy something from shops and markets, but there are many places where I can spend or use it, I can buy softwares spend it online, for myself I use it in casino games because bitcoin is my extra earnings.

In our country to be honest, bitcoin is not that popular since it is not yet open to the government yet, but I am using it by spending thru converting to fiat to transfer, like loading up my mobile phone, paying bills in electric and water bill I use bitcoin but they receive it with our fiat or in our own currency, and so we are looking forward for more in our country since it was used to illegal here as the news was used it and broad cast it in public, and so I am trying to make an online shop so my countrymen will know that they can spend they coins  on it, also advantage in both part like less tax issued there.

Bitcoin is not yet the worldwide currency..
It is only being used by some of the countries
to buy real stuff.
For now I haven't used it for real.
I just used it as a virtual currency.
That's all.

Actually in our country though not in big and wide terms we can buy gadgets, cellphones, perfumes and other products using bitcoin using the social media especially facebook. There are many online merchants in facebook and you can buy almost everything using bitcoin I even buy loads pay bills using bitcoins. And lastly did you hear that starbucks is now accepting bitcoins and there are already schools in UK that accepts bitcoin as tuition fee.

Bitcoin was developed with the vision of currency.
Though investing aspect of Bitcoin diluted this vision a little but still many merchants and enthusiasts helping it retain its vision.
You can buy domains/hostings over net. You can exchange it with other currencies from mediaries like localbitcoin.

This past few days ,I didn't cash it out and I just leave it on my wallet, then because of my workmates need in eloading and payment center, I started small business just in our office using bitcoin. So I need to be able to save what I earned so I can transfer it again in bitcoin.

I use it for my education and buying stuff here in my country we have app called coins.ph where you can use it to buy game credits buy stuff like shirts and jeans. But my bitcoin I withdraw  it for my personal use or pocket money. :) So I hope your country are open for bitcoin like us

There isn't an official "Bitcoin store" in my country. Right now, The only thing we can do with our bitcoin is either to buy,sell or exchange them to Fiat. Although recently, We can use bitcoin to buy other stuffs like airtime and other things so far you exchange it with your friend. It's a peer to peer kinda stuff but more like a trade by banter. ;)

Here in our country a lot of ways to use and spend bitcoin, the great thing that I saw was when some of the real estate company do accept bitcoin as a mode of payment. And it is for me a big break to know bitcoin in our country. We do also have online site that accepts bitcoin to do shopping.

Well there are many different things one can do with bitcoin and a lot of them in the world of internet and I think that not all users with bitcoin has a lot of privilege using all the specific things that they can do with it, because in some country there are cases that there are a few merchants that accepts bitcoin and not all can have any experience using it as is, in my case my country is one of them but there is a way so I can enjoy my bitcoins in my country in my wallet that are base on my country I can withdraw Bitcoin by the value of the fiat here, I can use my wallet to reload my phone and pay my bills more conveniently and fast!

I have used it for recharging my mobile in a website Bitrefill. In our india, almost 95 % of our people dont know about bitcoins. So, i have no chance of using it in shops. Yet, i have decided to buy digital gadgets in online. I hope things would change much faster and we could use bitcoins for our daily needs.

I can use it in different ways but big portion of my spending is by using it in gambling. I think most of us are doing that as well, I do trade and invest sometimes but it's not a regular activity for me. We are talking of spending, so the closest thing to that is my gambling activity.

This approach probably many, on day it is very convenient, but I try to use Bitcoin as little as possible, it is best to wait until better times, when its cost will be more.

only one online shop I sometimes buy a thing there using bitcoin. beside that, I just convert my bitcoin to fiat because I did not find any book store that accepts bitcoin as payment here.

Which kind of goods do you buy on that online shop ? I only purchase things around this forum and sometimes I buy some games from online people. It is hard to buy something with Bitcoin in my country since there are some laws which avoid people using it. it is very say :(

I use it mainly for online transaction where i can't pay with my debit card due to one or more reason. Bitcoin makes my payment with jusy few tap and its most reliable for me. I had use bitcoin to buy website domain name and few games. And now i love to trade with bitcoin to make some extra money.

Here in Brazil are few physical stores that accept Bitcoin, the way we use Bitcoin here is to recharge prepaid cards and pay bank vouchers through websites that offer this service. Of course, there are also p2p sales, in facebook groups there are always people advertising products that can be paid in Bitcoin.

Spending bitcoins depends on you. The kind of person you are. Gamers usually spend on Steam to buy custom skins , games n stuff like that. A person who likes fashion spends on clothes and accessories . Foody people spend on food. Starbucks has started accepting payment done in bitcoin. So there are a variety of things you can spend bitcoins on

I am using this bitcoin to buy things I want, like gadgets, foods and clothes but ofcourse I cant directly use this coin to buy so I will cashout first, then I order in online shop, after receiving the item i will pay for it using fiat from bitcoin exchanger. Some Onlineshop from Facebook accepts bitcoin but im not surely sure that this page will not scam so Even If i want use it directly I cant.

Well, I live in a country where it is difficult to find a place that accepts bitcoin. according to the experience that I feel, it is very difficult to spend, or using bitcoin what you have. you need to trade in currency exchanger into your country, so you can use it freely. would be very difficult to use it in a place that still feels unfamiliar with bitcoin, because you need to explain in advance, and show proof.

I got 1 btc last year and just bought clothes with it (it was like 400$) I think that was a silly move, should have saved.

I use mainly to purchase freelance services here and there once a week or so, but also as investment for medium terms

Of course yes :p When I see my money become more and more, I def buy btc first and then from the profit I will spend them in thinks and stuff I like. I save some but I try to keep a balance to my life.

online use of bitcoin is easy as you can purchase anything that is available online by to use it in your local area? i my area we do not have the facilities to use bitcoin in our local shops therefore first we have to convert bitcoin into our local currency and after that i can use it for shopping etc.

I spend bitcoin the same way as normal money. It's food, clothes, parties with friends and ect. I don't work and bitcoin is the only money that I have, but this money is enough for some kind of modest life.

Ain't never seen any kinda store round thet takes bitcoin.  It'sa damn shame!!  They ain't even menny stores on the innanet thet I know of that take it.  Howeva, I wouldn't spend it anyway.   Why you want ta spend up all ya hard earned bitcoin?  The price could go to a zillion rite afta ya spend it, then you feel like a sucka MC.  An' wit my signature earnin's, I cain't even buy nothon' but a cup o' grubs anyway.  But tomorrow I LOGS UP!!

I use bitcoin for trading and pay dedicated server

I gamble with bitcoins, I play poker and casino games like slots, roulette, bj sometimes. It's what I like to do and when I make something more I cash out. Everyone choose their own way of earning or spending bitcoins, I don't think anyone can tell you what to do with your own money.

You're right,its not there business to tell you what to do.It's to you how you manage or how you spent your bitcoins.For me i exchange it to fiat cash out,and i buy my priorities like i want to spend it and eat my favorite food,why not?You've work hard on it,and you have all the right on what to do with your money.In a long run i will try to explore how to gamble and trade it.

I collect bitcoin I only spend them twice imperceptible amount

Bitcoin can use in many things so
It is up to you on how you will use bitcoin.
But many people use it for tradings and
for the online transactions.

I use only to buy load for my mobile phone house bills, but then it helps a lot on my part even though it is not that popular here in our country and only few uses bitcoin.

In my Country basically we have none regulations about bitcoin is in the gray zone, but the mayor exchange of my country allows withdraw fiat, so we can buy stuff for the day, and with bitcoin, you can buy some fast food, coffee, mining hardware, clothes is not a big market but you can find a lot of stuff with a decent price.

Personally, I mostly use bitcoins on Steam games for my computer. They make it very quick and easy to make purchases with it, and the games are fairly cheap. However if I start to save more bitcoin, I transfer them

into Amazon gift cards and use it on any cool or interesting gadgets I might find on there. Being able to earn the bitcoins online and have a product show up at your doorstep is pretty nice.

a few people do gambling to earn more bitcoins, but I think it will spend coins more than earn them.

I myself just convert my coins to fiat when I need money to buy things. easy peasy jappaneesee.

Used to use Bitcoin to purchase CSGO skins and so for various activities, such as gambling or whatever, but right now I've stopped doing all of that and I've decided to go and save a lot of what I earn now, either in fiat that I keep in exchanges or in Bitcoin in wallets I have strewn around.

It's been doing well so far, so I'm not worried about my investments right now.

In our country not every body knows About bitcoin but last year i had introduced someone with bitcoin and out of them some were shopkeepers so they accept bitcoin payment from me and now they had started to make profit by trading. I am sure within few years many shop will start accepting bitcoin.

I'd like to spend some, but it's not worth it. The best stores that accept BTC are located in the USA and if I decided to buy there the shipping cost + customs tax would eat up all my savings. I'll have to wait until more stores start accepting BTC in Europe. Same thing with bills, no power/ internet companies in my area accept bitcoins.

Before I use my bitcoin i change my bitcoin into fiat because in my region bitcoin still not accepted as payment methods in any stores. Even in my city peoples who know bitcoin still less than 10% of all residents. So i feel as minority here  ;D haha

in my country, bitcoin is not available in any store, but there is a online website that accepting bitcoin as the payment and i use it to buy stuff. and if i want to use my bitcoin to buy in local store, i need to withdraw my bitcoin and sell it into my friend and then my friend send the money into my bank account.

I cant spend my bitcoin directly here in my country because there no one who accepting it directly thats why i usually do cash out or exchange my bitcoin to our local fiat before i could able to spend it.Maybe someday it would be already available when bitcoin adoption progresses in the future.

In India people can do Mobile or DTH TV recharge. Pay phone, broadband, electricity, bills. Buy discount coupons for eCommerce sites like Amazon using bitcoins.

Also a very few shops accept bitcoins.

I personally do not spend bitcoins unless I am getting heavy discount.

I use my Bitcoin in bill payments.  Whenever I earned and saved a good amount of bitcoin, i convert it to fiat money and send it as remittance to my family.  Aside from that, I also use it for trading and sometimes I do gamble it in some Casino site.

my country not accept bitcoin as a means of payment, I exchange the bitcoin to fiat in localbitcoin to meet the needs of my life, I also sometimes use an online service that accepts bitcoin to pay for electricity

like me, I almost did the same thing. I also find and save bitcoin in a long time, and then replace it into the form of fiat money, but, I then put it in the bank, because I felt it was better discount savings in a local bank. other than that, I also do a variety of investments, so I also get income in each month.

Yes you are right that we cant directly spent bitcoin to whatever goods that we want however we could now easily converts btc to fiat and it that way we could still do the spending. On the other hand since we cant use it directly it would just serve as for money making or saving more than spending

Most of countries are still not supporting bitcoin in their local purchases but only few countries have the option to buy good in their local areas, many people are not using it wisely saving bitcoin for their future returns according to country you are living you need to move with it rules and regulation otherwise you will face problems in spending.

First , I would like to ask you one thing . How to do use you paper currency ( like USD or something).
The question i asked is similar to that of yours . As you just asking everyone about how are the using their money.
Well i prefer to use Bitcoins to buy the latest and awesome games on steam. Buy particular and costly skins .
And then trade them and make profits . This was just one way of using it. Nowadays people even use bitcoins is Starbucks.
Soon they will start using it in many other firms . And btw , we can juts convert Bitcoins into your own currency and use it
like normal cash.
So we can buy almost everything with that .

In my country for me to acquire goods and services I usually have to pay in cash because they still don't accept payments using bitcoin well luckily in my country I can turn my bitcoin into cash in a minute using coins.ph and spent it on whatever goods/services I want

Yeah I agree that. There are only a few countries accept BItcoin as a currency so it is very hard to find a shop or a store which accept Bitcoin. In the next decade, I think the situation will change because people have to learn about technology and adapt to new innovation on this planet or they will absolutely be vanished

I spend Bitcoin a few times on gambling-Sports bets specifically, I bought camcorder from aliexpress with bitcoins through shopawl last year. I might pay my next Uber taxi trip with Bitcoin. The rest I first convert them to fiat before any procurement.

There are some shops here in our country who accepts bitcoin as a payment and also I can use it to buy some stuff like in dota by using p2p bitcoins. Most of using it as a online payment because price of bitcoins are not stable.

Steam offers you the Bitcoin payment method, so you can buy wallet codes for BTC if you're interested, without having to deal with anyone else. I'm skeptical most of the time when it comes to dealing with others for BTC or other stuff we can't directly trade, even when there is an escrow in there. I paid $10 on Steam until now and I don't regret it!

Although I've heard in my country can buy stuff with bitcoin. but I never found it. but honestly, I prefer using my bitcoin to buy stuff in online, because I think it's more easy and practical. because I was the one that includes the lazy go out for shopping ;D

Really, I agree with you, I would use bitcoin to buy online stuff. not for spending bitcoin to shopping. There is money you can spend it, but i prefer to use bitcoin for buying some good stuff especially freaky stuff, for exemple ancient coins, Weird things.. etc

How do you earn an income from bitcoin?  I have some on a phone but am not sure how to turn it into cash and not sure if I should.  What kind of scams should I be aware of?

I guess you are a newbie, there are many ways on earning bitcoin and you can convert it to cash. Thr thing is ypu need to be patient in using it cause If you are a newbie there are too many things to do or to learn if you are starting. There are some newbie threads here many questions of yours has an answer there.

For now we can just use bitcoin to online stuff but not all limited site only that you can buy service and stuffs.. the good part here in my country we can use bitcoin to pay for monthly bills like electricity and internet bills.. but still hoping that bitcoin can be accepted locally. for now i am spending bitcoin for buying domain and refilling my ad campaign on bing since we have vcc here that we can refill with bitcoin.

Thank you, I'll try to find the newbie threads.

   In my country/place where I live there is no such place where I can spend my bitcoins and buy something with bitcoins. That is not the only reason why my choice is to save bitcoins instead of spending them and investing them in suspicious services.
   When that day come, and if it comes, I will think about will I spend my bitcoins on some stupid buyings, or I will continue to save until bitcoin price reach some high price.

I personally use bitcoin to pay the telephone bill and that every day I used it for trading.
Actually, to avoid fraud is easy enough. The key is never easy to trust with the people we meet in online plus another not tempted by the offer of investment with high interest and unreasonable. Which is usually done by hyip. Thank you

bitcoin is already quite extensive for the moment, can be used for any payment but still limited. I am also so would rather buy stuff with bitcoin which I usually always use a credit card.

Your thought is actually correct, as per me I never trust hyip and anyone even my friend told me that they are actually paid by those hyip but still I am not joining any hyip, yes they are paying at first but after a year or else then they are gone. I also personally use bitcoin to pay our utilities expense less hassle and I also use this in remitting money for my relatives.

As a  users always like to purchase something with .So far mostly like to use my  to buy some electronic product doesn't matter online/offline.First of all my earning  convert it to my local currency cash.Recently bought a smartphone using my  $$.Right now focus store and going to trade.I thing it's the best ways to spend all of my bitcoins.

Use bitcoin wisely and smart. Use it to buy some clothes, shoes and accessories. Because we know that today you can buy stuffs using Bitcoin. And specially use it for investment so that while you are using it to buy stuffs at the same time you are earning.

In my case I dont spend bitcoins . I have just kept it as a investment.Hope its price will double in next years. Waiting to see that. By the way anything can happen . Its price can drop or crash also. But I think in positive way. I am hoping is price will double in next few years.I still collect bitcoins from various faucets.I also own two faucets .I collect bitcoins from other faucets and refill it in my faucet.In that way I spend some bitcoins . But I dont use bitcoins for buying other goods. Collecting  bitcoins is like hobby to me.This is my case.

always wondering to spend my bitcoin to buy clothes offline ,
unfortunately until right now there is no offline store available around my place :( ,
so i just spend them online mostly in gambling ,
and sometimes try to learn trading even it is pretty hard .

Mostly, I trade my Bitcoins, but here you will find some Airline that take Bitcoin and you will get huge discount for doing so because of the difficulties of accessing Forex presently in my country, I can also shop directly from China with BTC now because there is a cap on the amount of online purchase you can make with your card. The Forex issue in my country has really helped BTC to gain more users here.

Are there no offline clothes stores in your place? Where are you from?
I cash out my bitcoins monthly, it's like my salary and I use it for everything - clothes, food, fun. Bitcoin helps my life a lot, cause of today it's the only way to make money for me.

Yeah that is the problem with most countries but I think nowadays everyone like to but good from online shops so it is not a trouble for people to buy things with their bitcoins. That is also considered as goods bought with bitcoin.

basically almost nothing. I have it has an investment and one day im gonna buy something big with it hopefully

I will not disturb what you are doing right now. Still I like to suggest you to keep on adding more bitcoins to your investment holding. At least that way, there would be some movement of bitcoin transactions in your region that might trigger some adoption somewhere near to you.

When adoptions are happening in rapid way, you will get chances to use your bitcoins in very near future so that you might buy something big too.

Looks like many people are honestly living in bitcoin.. but for me better to save it and scaling up since we here online if you had already a job an receive your salary monthly why you need to get withdraw your bitcoin. instead holding bitcoin and scaling up is the best because almost people here are waiting to be rich..

Many many places are starting to accept it. I can buy most things but not food and most consumables. I can buy game consoles games assessories, cellphones. Laptops computer parts , electronics , toys, some consumer items like certain kinds of coffee or candy/sweets.

Virtual items are easy to get. Food I just sell bitcoin for fist to get. I love it. Makes life easier.

For me I guess there is nothing I can really do with my bitcoin online yet since I havent found any site or online store in my locality that accepts bitcoin as payment for services but hopefully in the near future this might change so I am literally left with no other option than to convert to Fiat before using to get what intend to use it for...

There are some online services which offers they will pay to any shop of your choice (with fiat) if you pay them in bitcoin.
Technically it is almost the same like changing bitcoin to fiat and then spend it for the desired goods, but in reality it can make your life a bit easier.

although it is a fact that the users of bitcoin are available everywhere, but still majority of people do not have the facilities to use bitcoin in their shops, but we can expect that in future we will be able to use bitcoin as currency even in our local shops.

Well, in my country i can exchange bitcoin into real money ^_^ i am so glad that my country has a bank can converts bitcoin into real money and i spend it on foods and a lot of them and but stuff of my parents and my brothers but i wanted to buy foods in the 711 i heard you can spend your bitcoin their but i am too afraid because it may have a tax or something and i don't know what is the transaction and maybe in the 711 the cashier thinks of me like a fool that i use internet money to buy real stuff >.<

As a beginner finding a store to use or spend my bitcoin is difficult. As users suggested holding bitcoin gives you good profit, because in the name of spending beginners gets caught into the hands of cheaters.

Here in the philippines bitcoins is not much popular to the mall stores or supermarkets but you can pay bills using bitcoins, now i use it to buy online game credits like steam wallet , gadgets and cashing out to pay bills in our school bitcoin really helps alot in my life and im so happy now that im earning alot of bitcoins for free just in trading and signature campaign.

Fortunately bitcoin's market is increasing. Hence, bitcoin is becoming popular and hoping that some  
online website store like amazon, and lazada can accept bitcoin soon. Therefore, bitcoin will be used by many users and making it more popular in the market. Sooner or later, it'll be the mainly used as mode of payment online. Hoping that in other countries, they can able to used bitcoin same as in the Philippines that they can pay bills with bitcoin.

If ever is won't be accepted in my country legally then I am still comfortable holding Bitcoin with me  because my local wallet allows iit to be converted to Fiat currency which has more uses than Bitcoin. My wallet has an option to convert your Bitcoin in Fiat currency equal to its Fiat value. This will allow me to spend money that I have earned through Bitcoin.

i come from non rich country outside europe ,
really hard to find a merchant that accept bitcoin and i think there is no single offline store accept bitcoin here ,
the way people thinking about technology here is like it was too dangerous lol ,
so they just think traditionally and hard to move forward, someone interested to accomodate me? i want to move to europe :(, where is heaven exist.

I am thankful there are some online shopping sites that can accepted bitcoin, sometimes I use to payments when online shopping, buy a voucher, pay utility bills and so on. In addition, I use bitcoin to invest short-term or less than 1 year old, I'm not sure that bitcoin can survive for the long term, because a lot of complaints from its users.

My biggest spending is the rent. My landlord is bitcoin-friendly and I don't have much cash left so it was a no-brainer. I also use it to buy online stuff wherever possible. I used OpenBazaar many times for it. I travel a lot in Asia and sometimes there are vendors accepting bitcoin so I'm happy to spend some money there. Also, when someone pays for my dinner etc I repay them with bitcoin.

You are actually lucky compared to me. There are only one two stores in my whole country that accept Bitcoin. But I don't really use Bitcoin on a daily basis to make purchases. It is more of a investment for me and I feel like spending it would be a waste. However, I sometimes do spend it when I have to. For example, there are some sites that don't let you deposit if you don't verify your identity. I don't really like giving away my information so I just deposit with Bitcoin. I really only use Bitcoin to buy games and gamble sometimes.

Right now bitcoin is still hard to spend in real world to buy some physical goods or things that we want. But there are still many ways to spend it online. In our country, there is an exclusive bitcoin wallet where you can top-up your mobile phone by using it. Some big companies here already accepts bitcoin as payment. Like electric, water, and credit card bills. Even monthly internet bills accepts bitcoin as payment. You can also buy some game credits like steam wallet codes by using bitcoin.

Most of the time I prefer to spend my bitcoin to altcoins because I see that there are many opportunities to increase the bitcoin volume, whatever the bitcoin price becomes, because I like holding bitcoins for a long time.

Every investment has it own risks but we have to do this if we want to have a little profit, but we should be careful because there are many pumps and dumps in the altcoin trading and this happens more often than in the bitcoin.

And its also much cheaper when we exchange it that's why im collecting my earned btc and use it to pay some of my bills like electricity,water and mobile phone bills its really a big help because i dont need to fall in line and wait for some time to pay those bills, just a click away from our btc exchangers and it will be pay in the comfort of our pc/smart phones.

Spending bitcoin is getting easier day by day due to the increased user profiles. More stores have started accepting bitcoin which helps users to spend for their requirements. Other than that finding legit websites and investing for a stable income too is an benefit.

OP is clearly talking about spending bitcoin directly not converting it in fiat, and there are indeed few merchants thata ccept this, like dell, newegg, steam

but you can rely on some world-wide third party like all4btc or purse.io to spend your bitcoin and get rid of fiat, there is also open bazar...

I change Bitcoins for real money, and that way buy physical items.

Here in our place there is only few stores accepting btc, usually i spend it by loading my mobile phone or paying my bills but if i want to buy clothes or anything that is not available online i have to convert it to fiat to be able to spend it.

If you cant directly spend your bitcoin because its not still available in your country you could still always exchange your bitcoin to your local fiat since these way is the common thing that most people do because we all know that bitcoins adoption in not too spread throughout the world that's why we  would exchange it to fiat on our local wallet service provider.

There are many ways to use/spent bitcoin. Because I am using online wallet. There are markets there, you can pay bill. Also you can buy load. Because I haven't verify my account on the online wallet yet I store my bitcoin the I spent it for buying a load. And I used it by investing and trading because it is the way to earn big.

i think the best option that i can do to spend my bitcoin is by withdraw my bitcoin into real money and then we can buy something we want because there is not many store offline that would accepting bitcoin as the payment. and this is why many of bitcoin user will choose this way to spend their bitcoin including me.

Not only you and me. I think most of the people here in the forum are doing the same. They just the sell out their btc and change into fiat and using it. If many sites or businesses starts by accepting bitcoins means that would be purely helpful for many btc users.

The way you described how you use bitcoin it seems that you are using coins.ph and you are form the Philippines. Its just my hint its because I am also paying my bills, buy a load using my bitcoins through coins.ph. I am also doing some trading in yobit and after I earn enough bitcoins I will convert it to Philippine peso to purchase necessary things for my family.

here in my country there is no online shop or any thing which accept bitcoin but i think the best use of bitcoin is to not to spent much but to save it for investment and use it for trading and make more and more bitcoins for better future....

Since only a few online and there is no offline store that accepts bitcoin here in our country,I just convert my bitcoin to our local fiat,it is easy to convert because we have a legit online bitcoin exchange here,but of course I want to buy online using bitcoin,and no I do not buy drugs with my bitcoin because I'm not into this .

I buy things like adpacks in revenue share sites,advertising material like paid to click ads,paid to singup offer,traffic exhange and other things with which I can advertise some site which have referral option.Also I invest my bitcoin in hyip sites,I buy positions in matrix-cycler sites where I dont need to get referrals to earn a money,that is one kind of matrix site with concept created month ago.Also I buy tickets in sportbetting sites and I play poker with bitcoin and I gamble on a dice sites with bitcoin.Also I buy other cryptocurrencies with bitcoin and I trade with them like a pro and I make a nice profit.I dont use bitocoin in real life to buy something because in world bitcoin isnt enought popular so small amount of shops are using them so I cant spend my bitcoins in real life now.Right now I only advertise,trade,invest and gamble with bitcoin.

Surprisingly large number of vendors, online  merchants, and platforms that accept direct Bitcoin payments in our country so I can readily pay using  Bitcoin. I also buy goods thru internet that I needed using Bitcoin as well. However, there are times that I need to convert it to our local currency just to spent it buying some stuff or if I needed money to pay other bills.

You are lucky you have that kind of development in your country, I have been waiting that vendors in our country will finally adopt with bitcoin so I can experience the convenience of spending my bitcoins online. That is just good on your part, expect more development, for sure you are living in a big country.

in my country not much service or shop who accept bitcoin as payment so i can't spend my bitcoin directly to buy or purchase something so i should exchange bitcoin to my countries currency then i can spent it sometimes i can use bitcoin to buy some digital goods and its very helpfull can use it around the world without difficulty

It's really weird that there is a psychiatric in my country where you can spend BTC at but we've got less than five total shops thst accept it (and most of them are electronic shops). I guess we have to wait a little more until it will get into a wider use around the world.

Here in my country, we have few merchants that accepted Bitcoin which is coins.ph some are Coffee Shop such as Starbucks but not all their outlet accepting it maybe the franchising outlet only, some are Bar and Restaurant too. But when it comes to any gadgets, and department store were not in that stage yet.

Me too. You can not find a shop or a store that accept Bitcoin. I can only use bitcoin to buy some online stuff, just like you. Exchange places have helped me a lot in converting BItcoin into FIAT so that I can use my BItcoin everywhere. I hope that one day most of the people in my country will understand what is Bitcoin and start using it as a currency

Here in Serbia I can spend my bitcoins for everything I want, of course not directly, but just cashing it out in advance. But I am sure that bitcoin's spreading will make and our firms to start to work with bitcoin soon.

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Of course you can spend all of your bitcoin when ever you want because you own it, its just you can spend directly . Same here in our country we need to convert it into our local currency when we want to buy something or to spend it.

I usually spend my bitcoin to purchase my mobile, but if i have more i usually also cashing out some to my local currency because very rarely to find shop accepting bitcoin as payment method in my country.

In certain countries, things are quite advanced. The greater the level of people's knowledge about technology, the greater the chance of finding people who know Bitcoin in those countries, and consequently the greater the adoption in different services. There are already places where you can even buy a plane ticket using Bitcoin.

to me as belong to the backward area of my country. its a hilly area, but we have   2G internet facility here. when i brought the idea about bitcoin in my area there was not a single person who even hear the name of bitcoin but after that when i start work on it i shared the ideas with my friends and then now they also start working on it. i still we do not have any facility of using bitcoin in local shops and i am hopeful that as soon as the number of bitcoin users will increase here the possibility of using bitcoin in local shops will also increase. .

At this moment I can not purchase anything directly with the bitcoin (other than dealing with the users in bitcointalk's country section) so I have to convert bitcoins in fiat in order to spend it offline. I don't convert it usually but I spend some of the coins online to refill my mobile, DTH bills as it is the only option for me to spend it directly.

Even I was doing the same thing in the past as the usage of bitcoin is limited in my country so whenever I have to spend them I need to convert them to my local currency first and then spend to buy anything but now I do have a bitcoin debit card so I can use it everywhere at offline places to buy clothes, or to pay restaurant bills any many other things so now I don't have to convert my bitcoins to fiat to spend them.

We don't really spend bitcoin in the Philippines but we exchange it to our local fiat. And used it to buy some stuff, we hope that some store here will offer bitcoin as a payment method so that it will be easy for us to buy stuff using bitcoin.

It will not be easy for any country to adopt bitcoin so easily and even merchants should know that there is a payment system something like bitcoin and for that to happen I think we should tell them that they can also accept payments via bitcoin and that will draw their attention to know more about bitcoin but I think it will take long time for that to happen.

That's great, which service you are using? I am thinking to opt in for a bitcoin card but I found that card is proving 10% to 20% costlier for me after considering my expenditure and card fees. It would be extremely helpful on foreign trips but for domestic use (and the level of my expenditure), I don't find it economically beneficial to use it at this moment.

I generally use it for freelancer work, I either work myself and earn bitcoins or I spend for others on my Project.
I always told people if you are going to do a million dollar work or even couple hundred thousand than regular fiat is easy, try sending 10$ from Europe to say India.

How is easy is that before bitcoin? Normally it was a pain in the ass, I do freelancer work and I deal with 5-10-20 dollars which means that they can not directly send it to me if there weren’t bitcoin. Now I get to reap the benefits of it :D

I do not think that there is even one shop in my whole country that accepts Bitcoins. There are some sites from my coutry that accept Bitcoin and promote it,  ut you can not really use it for physical good. But there is ONE bitcoin ATM at the capital cuty and that is pretty much everything we have got.

This time, I just spent bitcoin by way of exchanging it with fiat on reliable exchanger. Well, I prefer to spend bitcoin that way, because I can share it with other people. apart from that I can spend it freely. for the moment I do not intend to spend a bitcoin with how to use the online store, or something on the internet.

Where I live, it is tough to purchase real life items using bitcoins. So I mostly use it for Steam games. However, there is a great service called Gyft, https://www.gyft.com/ , which allows you to purchase gift cards for

almost any online site, and one of the payment options allows for Bitcoins. So I've recently been purchasing Amazon gift cards using my bitcoins through Gyft. It is a nice feeling purchasing something online using

bitcoin and having it show up to your house in the next day or two (Amazon Prime). However, I wish everyday items that I purchase in stores like malls were able to be bought with bitcoin. Hopefully the day will come.

I am wander about this bitcoin ATM in your capital. We haven't one here or even in the capital and I wander how it works. How big fees the ATM takes or does it take fees at all?
Thanks.

There are two ways I use/spend bitcoin during this time, one is uses directly meant to buy something with bitcoin payment is usually in the online store. the other is exchange bitcoin to fiat through localbitcoin

Yes it's true many people or shop owners didn't know about bitcoins because of being busy in their business and the government or media didn't tell it to people and lack of knowledge but we have one convenient store that you can buy bitcoins using philippine currency.

Luckily, here in my place, we have two bitcoin ATMs and a few coffee shops that accept bitcoin as payment  ;D But still there are some problems while using these machines. One ATM belongs to a restaurant, so every time I want to use my bitcoin as fiat money, I have to order something to wait for the transaction to be confirmed and it's long like a century. It's quite inconvenient :'( The coffee shops are good, though, except for a few times they don't accept bitcoin for no reason.

There are still inconvenience in a transaction regarding bitcoin it needs to eat up a lot of time and patients, you can never really say that bitcoin is pure inconvenience in just one point of view because there are a lot of people usually taking such problems, like in my case I will withdraw my bitcoin on the ATM the transaction in my wallet has been approve that is why I am fairly confident that I can get my money but the ATM has a problem and doesn't know any transaction that I am inputting on it, well there is no 100% real convenient regarding bitcoin but I am still showing my support with it because of the earnings.

i am agree with this, maybe they don't follow in technology news or maybe they know about bitcoin but they don't think that bitcoin is a good for them. maybe they don't want to get involve with bitcoin because they are busy with their store and don't thinking that bitcoin can be applied to with their business.

beside that, i think the news about bitcoin itself in real life is not much depend on internet and i think it is our duty to introduce bitcoin in to public and spread the news about bitcoin.

I use it just how it could be used now. We have limited options in our country and most of it is just to exchange it to fiat.
Prepaid load is a good business here in our country considering people want something cheaper as always. Not much use the postpaid so my loading business is blooming. Add up the people who want to buy something online. They just go to me and ask a favor to buy it through bitcoin for they have no money online and cash on delivery is not available in the item that they are buying. I just add up some percentage whenever they want it as soon as possible.

You are very fortunate to have such a facility. a lot of people out there who can not feel it. it is true that one of the things that is still a shortage of bitcoin is a confirmation of receipt late.

For now, I'm in the stage of learning of how to use bitcoin personally.. So in my experience this time, I used bitcoin to buy some coins in the ico with a cheap price amount. Then I used it for loading my mobile phone.

not much different as you express, on my most frequently used to exchange bitcoin bitcoin currency into my country, about my online shopping is still rarely use bitcoin as a means of payment, because bitcoin my country can not be accepted by the government as currency.

Welcome to the crypto world.First of all,I would like to suggest everyone learn and learn then earn after a little while come to take decision how can you use bitcoin.There so many essential platform where should go with regarding to a good income.If you skill yourself in IT,you offer your skill and use your bitcoin in your daily purpose.

I've yet to find a local shop that directly accepts Bitcoin as payment. So, I haven't paid with bitcoin in person yet.

But, we do have a local exchange that lets us pay utility bills, tuition, phone credits, etc. We pay bitcoins and the exchange probably converts it to fiat then they pay the service. It's convenient and conversion to fiat is easy as well.

I've also used bitcoin to pay for some online stuff like membership, e-books, and some game credits.
Plus, there's also the investments and the occasional deposits for gambling.

there are many ways to use bitcoin whether online or offline but the most noticeable use of bitcoin is thru online like buying digital goods and if your into porn they are opening there payment thru bitcoin now but not mostly because they are profiting from it usually to those underage people who want to subscribe to their site now knowing they are underage. Offline forms of spending bitcoin are too small at the moment and its hard to find one who accepting it depending of country of origin.

there's not much options to use bitcoin in my country as there's almost no local merchant who accept bitcoin. So the only way is to use the bitcoin either convert it into cash and buy the goods or buy digital goods from online merchant who accept bitcoin, in my case for buying steam games.

i think online shopping is the best way of spending bitcoin , in fact in our area there is not such a shop where we can use bitcoin. therefore we mostly change our bitcoin first into  fiat and then use it for completing our daily needs.

Most of the time I'm using bitcoin for everyday life and mostly for paying phone bills and for everyday groceries, really takes the weight off. Tho, at the start I've been using it at brawker website for buying stuff from ebay.

I typically just use it to buy some digital items that are relatively cheap.
Nothing too expensive or extravagant. ;D
I only claim my bitcoins from faucets nothing too much earned doing those.