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Arnhem world's most Bitcoin friendly  city located in Netherlands, you can buy everything with bitcoin in it.

Arnhem Bitcoinstad" ('Bitcoin City') as they call it, came into existence when three Bitcoin enthusiasts decided they wanted to be able to spend bitcoins in their own town. They went on a mission to convince local bars and restaurant owners to accept bitcoin payments. At the opening at May 28th 2014, 15 places accepted bitcoins. Since then, more and more shop owners joined them so you can buy a greater diversity of products and pay with Bitcoin in Arnhem.

What we will have next, Bitcoin Country?
What other Bitcoin friendly places you would recommend?

apparently the isle of man is supposed to be up their, Dont know what its like actually using bitcoin in the shops though.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bitcoin-how-the-isle-of-man-is-sparking-a-cryptocurrency-revolution-a6794756.html

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/isle-man-became-bitcoin-island/

it was cool when I see a lot of restaurants that accept bitcoin payments and facilitate faster payments without having to spend cash, I hope in my country will also receive payments bitcoin

We could say that. Netherlands is also bitcoin country. It was one of the first european countries that has welcomed bitcoin, placed ATMs and also regulated bitcoin but in positive way. So it would be great to see other countries that would follow this great example of Netherlands.

At first I thought it's a small town with population under 20,000, so it wasn't a big deal to convince almost every place there to accept Bitcoin. But then I googled it. Wow! Arnhem's population is over 150,000 and it is one of the largest cities of the Netherlands. Good job, guys! That's a great example for all of us to follow.

As mentioned other countries too might follow Netherlands to advance in technology. Bitcoin ATM usage has decreased a lot due to the exchanges which makes the conversion with small fee. I believe that already a country named Liberaland is using bitcoin as its currency which has got just a few number of residents.

This is very enthusiastic news! who is behind all this and how it happened? was it a result of government initiative or was it just a community efforts? I would like to see how it worked so that other cities can follow the suit.

it is a cool city, if the city using the bitcoin as a means of exchange or any other thing. but it might be better if we had a bitcoin country, because people will see bitcoin as something cool  ;D.

wow this is such a cool news to hear because it has actual bitcoin usage instead of fiat in it, and that is always nice.

i am wondering if anyone can give us some statistics on how successful these businesses were and how many people have been using them with bitcoin in the past 2-3 years?

Good news indeed! A country now? That will be a problem. But it is really a goof start. I hope I can go there and spend some. Anyone have tried this? How are the items priced? Are the prices also rely on a certain currency?
Want to go there and see if it is better than how it is with dollar prices.

I have never heard about this city before just made a quick search and looking at their site https://www.arnhembitcoinstad.nl/

Thanks for sharing, i would love to live in this city by just paying in every shop with bitcoin.

This is interesting. Considering I relatively live not that far away I will probably go there some day or another.

wow! is it real? how i wish i could go to that place and buy something. I couldnt imagine that there are existing place in this world that really bitcoin friendly sort of it is a city of bitcoin just wow nothing i could say. However if we think that if there is a country that is bitcoin friend i couldnt state any country for now because i dont know most of the bitcoin users came from

really ? this is wonderful, when everyone uses Bitcoin, Bitcoin user everything. I wish I lived there. it is a dream city, but it's true, I am very surprised about this. As you said, I hope there will soon be a nation of Bitcoin. Great! Bitcoin is growing, it was so convenient. I would be happy if my country using Bitcoin. ohhh, this is hard to occur. Bitcoins are not known in my country, people only know to real money

I've been there twice! Defenitely worth a visit.
Beautiful city and really nice people.
You can get almost anything there with Bitcoin!
You gotta have to love the dutch! ;D

In terms of countries it looks like the Japan is making great progress and doing some huge steps in direction to declare Bitcoin as legal tender.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/25/japan-to-make-bitcoin-legal-currency (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/25/japan-to-make-bitcoin-legal-currency)

That would be something!

It is all about community, the Dutch Bitcoin community is great with a lot of innovative companies which are also very keen on bringing Bitcoin to a higher level of exceptance.


Proud to be Dutch.

That's great news and it shows that when there is drive for something to be done,sooner or later it becomes reality.Now if only more people go to that city and get hooked with BTC then everything is possible :D BTC Country is a huge goal and it is definitely a goal which would bring a lot of attention to BTC so why not.

These are very good news. Maybe some already know it but in northern Switzerland there is small town its name is Zug (https://news.bitcoin.com/swiss-town-accepts-bitcoin/) which has begun to accept payments in bitcoin for certain public services from May 2016 as a part of a pilot crypto project. The municipality of Zug accepts the amount of 200 francs worth in equivalent of bitcoin. 

I actually heard about Arnhem Bitcoinsrad March last year through a friend who's a Dutch and lived in Arnhem, I wasn't enthused about Bitcoin then but I knew it was a great name for the city (Bitcoin city) and I'm happy now that I belong to the Bitcoin world to have cities turning up the acceptance heat if Bitcoin, hopefully the entire Netherlands and maybe Switzerland will follow suite soon.

It is a great and cool idea to create bitcoin city, if the news become viral it sure going to boost up the bitcoin user, and with more shop and user accepting bitcoin it will bring a postive improvement for bitcoin and before we know it maybe we will have a bitcoin country

This is huge. Perhaps I will one day retire in this city!

It's a refreshing news for all of us and I think Bitcoin's expansion depends on its usage and acceptance and as we've managed to get a whole city to accept it I bet the future of a Bitcoin country is near and China should be ware before the Netherlands clinches the title from them.

This is great. A city is a good start, then a whole province and then a country. It just shows that if there is a real intention to make bitcoin accepted in a city, it will happen. Kudos to the three who started that. If it can be done there, it can also be done in our own city. We should be inspired by them and copy what they have done.

In my country we have a Bitcoin Boulevard, but the size is far to be a boulevard lol

Wow that's a good news to all of the bitcoin user at Netherlands,
Hope that it will also happen in our country here in the Philippines,
So we could go out with just a phone and pay for all the things that we want through internet.

I envy this kind of City.  I wish this kind of system can be found in my city where Bitcoin is being used daily and that there are several company  that support and accept Bitcoin.  My country is in neutral stance on Bitcoin and I hope my country will be Bitcoin friendly soon.

I wonder how well that is going considering the current transaction fee,  i like using bitcoin but i seriously dont want to be paying a premium over fiat to do so.   :-\

I would say this is the nice city that is bitcoin friendly so far. Its really good to see how this city loves bitcoin. Hope i can see more city like this in the future. This is the coolest place to be. Its a paradise for all bitcoin enthusiast around the world. This is really rare to see because majority of nations(especially China) are treating bitcoin as threat.

Wow!what a great news indeed.Feeling cool wish over the world could be friendly with bitcoin like as others fiat currency.Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency with a payment system so their have right managed and can buy everything with bitcoin in it.Because bitcoin could help these countries wean themselves off the dollar and this kind of system necessary.

this sounds great, and i wish people in my country/city were showing more acceptance towards bitcoin so that we could have it here too.
the only other place that i know of (which i think we can call it bitcoin country) is Switzerland that they have lots of bitcoin ATMs and also the best thing is that you can buy bitcoin from every machine in every train station the same way you buy a ticket!

Yes. I think so. If they've turned the town into a BTC city, its not impossible after all to turn more and more town to accept bitcoin for their daily spending. Its going to be a challenge but still worth the try because it will help BTC in the end and also to the crypto.

There is a remittance service in our country that accepts btc to pay our utility bills but I think they are going to cash out btc into cash and pay our bills, this is nothing compare to the actual sending BTC to a btc address to pay. Maybe someday we can do this in our country.

Oh thats a great news to hear that every shop of Arnhem in netherlands accept bitcoin. I am hearing it for the first time. At present bitcoin is not that popular but its getting popular day by day. I am from India. In my country also bitcoin is getting popular day by day and nowadays everybody started to buy bitcoins .But not many shops started accepting bitcoins. I hope may be in few years from now, all shops will also start accepting bitcoins.

I just know about it, look like a dream land of bitcoiners to spend Bitcoin at will and free from fiat money (if you want to).
It won't be easy to convince all of those business owners to accept bitcoin if they don't know how it works unless the system of exchange rate already covered by them (who started this idea).
Nice articles man, thanks for share. I will read all of it and looking for more articles, this island really matter for bitcoin development.

I checked the map in their site and the list. I was impressed because there is really several number of stores - food, clothes, hotels, services shops and more. I also find their payment processor great (Bitkassa) which offers its payment service for free (as of now, but there might be changes in the near future). I don't know any Bitcoin place yet here in our City that's why I don't have a recommendation. Thanks for sharing this one.

And the local government just accepeted? there are no regulations? i did not see any regulations on the articles. Anyone knows?

Great news. The Dutch really are welcoming of new developments. It would be nice if at least one city in my country would go this way. Our central bank has already released a statement saying they accept bitcoins as a legal way of money transfer. I suppose it would be hard for an entire country to be completely bitcoin-friendly but just having bitcoin supported in the larger metropolises would be a good change.

Its good to know that theres a city existing at the moment and obviously bitcoin adapters are mostly in the first world country but hoping in the next years to come we can see many establishments even in 3rd world countries would adapt bitcoin seriously so that bitcoin will strive until we can see its full potential on our economy.

That is good there is city on Holland, where the people know about bitcoin and make transaction daily via bitcoin also visitors can shops use bitcoin,
I think in the future it will be adopted by other cities on every countries, although that will needs long time until has bitcoin country or at least digital coins country.

Wow! And it is just the beginning. If they continue to promote bitcoin, they can make it legal in the whole country. Great work guys!

Imagine a decentralized country :D :D sadly though infrastructures are expensive to maintain especially in EU, but lets imagine in a city you could spend cryptocurrencies or just bitcoin, but those who are selling or providing services are paying with fiat to buy themselves in bulk.
Imo what bitcoin truly needs to have a significant effect on millions of people is a man who can provide some exclusive and unique service or item only in exchange for bitcoin that way many people will have to engage with crypto even if not by first choice.

Satoshi Nakamoto does not like to create another Nation State as you said Bitcoin Country. Satoshi Nakamoto do not advocate to create any nation-country. He does not  advocate for monarchism or anarchism because he has laid down the foundation of Sonarchism with Bitcoin and Blockchain to save mankind from the nation-state immoderate foreign policy. He want to save mankind from another Nuclear Holocast that could destroy every one and every thing on this planet. So want to dismantle all the nuclear warhead and transform it to create electricity to mine Digital Electronic Currency. Imagine, if we could manage to buy up all the nuclear warhead and dismantle it all together or advice the UN to do it to protect the planet from destruction by squiring all the nuclear warhead from those nation-state countries. It will be best for the future generation to live without fear. So Bitcoin will create a global platform to achieve a success that we all human wish for and dream of a war free common world where every body has a fair share. He also suggested to all the Bitcoin community people not to cite any illogical statements like the anarchist does. We want to build a good relation with every government to do our part to assist the government to create a better world using Blockchain technology and Bitcoin system of financial tool. This is a prudential advice from the real Satoshi Nakamoto. Do not believe any false statements from any one come in my Japanese Robotic name. Therefore use all the Bitcoin transaction in legimate business venture only. Do not follow the footstep of any bad leaders who is doing bad thing using Bitcoin to reduce the good reputation of Bitcoin technology.

 https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-can-save-world-from-nuclear-holocaust-russian-expert

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Well that is good news.  But, how good?

Well, to answer that, I hope that we can get some feedback from people who actually have been to Arnhem recently (or better yet LIVE there) and hear their experiences.

Has anyone actually been there?  Please tell us of your BTC experiences.

This is really an exciting news. Well begun is half done. A city to accept bitcoin, the country will soon be the case.I think in the future it will be adopted by other cities on every countries, although that will needs long time until has bitcoin country or at least digital coins country.I'm looking forward to that day.

I do not know if a city with a estimated population of +/- 200 000 people would be sustainable to support continues Bitcoin use? I live in a much bigger city and the merchants already complain that they are not getting enough business for them to continue accepting Bitcoin as a payment option.

Arnhem is a tourist location, so I hope our fellow Bitcoiners will support this initiative on their next holiday. ^smile^

Reading this discussion board really brings the seriousness and importance of bitcoin to light . Makes you feel like a turning point in history is in sight and from whay i have been reading here it will in a way unite the population of the earth  :o ... Or maybe im bonkers ::)

wow its good that we have bitcoin city now and this is a good news for people from netherlands which near with arnhem because if they have bitcoin, then they can use bitcoin to buy what they want and they can buy something in that city. i wish in future, i can travel into many places and i can pay with bitcoin too and i can buy something with bitcoin.

in next, i think we can have bitcoin country that all people in that country is using bitcoin and we can see offline store is receive bitcoin for their payments and we can freely to using bitcoin to buy something.

Decentralization bitcoin appear in public only directly proportional to government's attitude toward cryptocurrency, and countries in EU have a positive view about it.

Netherlands considers bitcoin is not included in the scope of the law on financial supervision (Wet op het financieel toezicht), and decided bitcoin accepted as a means of payment, but it is not defined as a common currency, digital currency and legal tender.

I would say this a major step and its something I am happy about but in as much as we give credit to those guys that started the movement over there we should also not be unmindful of the role government plays in making that a success, because without that, I am sure they won't have gone far and that is the problem we are having over here as government has come out to "we are not recommending this and if you do, you are doing at your own risk" that will make such movement likely impossible over here...

Woah how did I miss this update, Netherlands is a beautiful place to visit and on top of it Bitcoins as payment is awesome. This is a landmark step in the Bitcoin industry and if this works out well others will follow, dubai uses blockchain technology no update if Bitcoins has been updated in it. The swizz have started using it. A school in Delhi that is in India is using it. I feel the global economy and countries are finally getting the hang of Bitcoin and it's about time when one country decides to make it their official currency. Then there a mall online you can use Bitcoin for or buy vouchers of so many places using Bitcoins.

My doubt would be how would the merchants deal with the ever changing price of bitcoin and how they will determine whether they will end up in loss as the price volatility of bitcoin is a known factor which prevents it from bitcoin being a merchant friendly option .If the price is stable it can be a good option but as a business owner i would not risk accepting bitcoin.

For you, who wondering how it started? Whos behind this? Another user had shared the link https://www.arnhembitcoinstad.nl/
It was started when 3 bitcoiners want to spend Bitcoin as easy as spend fiat money.
"Arnhem Bitcoinstad" ('Bitcoin City') as they call it, came into existence when three Bitcoin enthusiasts decided they wanted to be able to spend bitcoins in their own town. They went on a mission to convince local bars and restaurant owners to accept bitcoin payments. At the opening at May 28th 2014, 15 places accepted bitcoins. Since then, more and more shop owners joined them so you can buy a greater diversity of products and pay with Bitcoin in Arnhem.
An amazing effort and work through years, right?
Moreover, bitcoiners offered special discounts to pay using bitcoin.

When paying with bitcoins: 10% discount on all sandwiches and drinks
Mo Lon: Kortestraat 25
    
10% discount on wine tasting events! Next to that: if you can show your studentcard you'll also get 10% discount on wines in the store if you pay with Bitcoin!
Robbers en Van den Hoogen: Velperweg 23
    
When paying with bitcoins: Second Whopper for free! (excl. bacon and cheese)
Burger King: Weverstraat 4

it should be hard work to impress people to use a new thing rather than the old thing. bitcoin users from the other cities may go there and spend their bitcoin. well, if there's a country welcomes bitcoin, it would be better than.

and sadly I do not know the other bitcoin city.

It seems so good, it was very affordable if all the establishments accept the bitcoin. Bitcoin really sounds so good, what about the bitcoin country? Awesome! Our life becomes so easy and enjoyable.

I won’t lie but I am feeling jealous of this city as there is not even a single merchant who accepts bitcoin in my city ( the situation is probably same in the country). However I am very sure than in next 5 years, merchants around us would start accepting bitcoin if proper support is given to them and I think services like bitpay are offering such solutions and if it works well then in few years we will have bitcoin countries around the world.

That bitcoin city would be possible if bitcoins adoption would be on its fullest extent which means we dont already have problems on using our bitcoin because there are lots of merchants who reside that do accept bitcoin as a payment and same as yours theres still none here on my country or place.

This is a good attempt to difuse bitcoin and atract a part of people that im pretty sure are part of crypto currencies,  tourist people will travel around the world and being part of crypto world will make them choose a place where they can use it and meet others people as well.

If this groups are created at each country soon we will get a lot more exposure then we do have now at bitcoin.

Wow! That is the biggest news I have heard about bitcoin usage and adoption in this forum. I hope the next thing to happen is the whole Netherlands will accept bitcoin as a mode of payment. In India there are groups who are now conducting lectures on the usage of bitcoin but its hard to say if they are next because of their settings, possibly it will be in Switzerland, Nigeria or Venezuela.

Now we actually looking with "BuyWithBitcoin.info" for someone who will write an article about Arnhem and submit to our page.
If you can do a review of Arnhem, submit to our page we will pay from 10$ to 100$ in bitcoin for it.
I think Arnhem is interesting for Bitcoin community and i would like to read this article also.

Pretty cool, OP. It's been a few years since I've been back to Amsterdam/Netherlands. Do you or does anyone else know if this Arnhem (or any other city in the Netherlands) have coffee shops where you can buy pot with bitcoin? Because if so, I might have to book another trip...  ;D

Traveling around the world with bitcoin should be possible in the next 5 years. Just with having ATMs in every big airport it's an big step into.

So to be a city that primarily runs on bitcoin they must have a bitcoin bank. ;D
Where they can deposit and make withdraws where they want. Or are they just using kiosks and doing all transactions from their phones to other phones?
What about their savings accounts where are they located?

this is a great news actually for all of the bitcoin enthusiast. this only proves that it is not possible to people to adopt this digital currency as long as there is a proper mass information to convey to a certain community. if only mass information will be push through in every country, i will not wonder if ten years from now we will have not only a bitcoin community but a bitcoin country and a bitcoin world.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-conquers-morocco-as-underground-crypto-bazaar-is-flourishing

Next will be more cities around the globe... and eventually some countries as well.
But I would like to know how are they making sure the payments? I mean as the transactions take time... how are the managing to buy/sell real time?

Looks like Kenya can become first Bitcoin country changing Mpesa to Bitcoin.

Good to hear that :) .yes of course it would very possible since there are many users already uses bitcoin and many people are aware about this. If we spread bitcoin throughout the country then no doubt it would become more famous, successful enough to have bitcoin country. Soon!

Nice to see that,there is region in Switzerland what is accepting bitcoin,some years ago my Spanish friend told me that it was possible to pay shopping in supermarkets with btc in Andalusia,Bitcoin is popular in Catalunya becouse paypal is blocked there

Yes, bitcoin is going mainstream now and no one can stop that from happening. A lot of countries are putting regulations on how the use bitcoins so this is good news as well. But I doubt if that there will be a bitcoin country, perhaps recognizing bitcoin as same as fiat but not replacing fiat as currency of a certain country.

Wow! that was totally cool, everywhere they go bitcoin is always a part of their mode of payment in their place in majority of the business they had. I hope in the near future that most of the country will also be like that place, like bitcoin country as the mentioned above.

There is already a country that accepts bitcoin as its official currency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberland
I wonder what would happen if I started using bitcoin as the whole world payment system today.
This may be the next step. But it is not possible to see it in the century we live in.

This is the last point.

the world is now a global village and bitcoin is our global currency. people are now introducing the bitcoin and they are taking interested here. i am hopeful that very soon all the people of the world will be using bitcoin. not only for online purpose but for offline also. and very soon local shops will be accepting bitcoin for shopping.

may be bitcoin country would come very soon i that country would be anyone from developed and bitcoin lover country. But probably country's decision is very difficult task to accept bitcoin as nation's currency instead of nation's own currency so many people could oppose the situation.

A bitcoin country is a country that even their government will accept bitcoin as a form of payment to government services.  I we already have a bitcoin city then probably Switzerland can be considered a bitcoin country. But what is lacking in Switzerland is the mass adoption of bitcoin by the society but if it will happen then its just a matter of time until it will come true.

It is cool that we have bitcoin city now and this is a good news for people from netherlands which near with arnhem because if they have bitcoin, then they can use bitcoin to buy what they want and they can buy something in that city. when I see a lot of restaurants that accept bitcoin payments and facilitate faster payments without having to spend cash, I hope in my country will also receive payments bitcoin

You all have heard of the Russian prophecy?
#russianprophecy

But that was going to happen in 2016. So a year late but still able to happen due to Trump is being control by Putin
even if he doesn't know it yet.
Putin will have him press the red button and destroy all his own missile silos and then come on in the front door with ease. :-[

Looking forward for Bitcoin country!

Never heard this news that there are bitcoin city in netherland and i think more country right now are accepting bitcoin locally in some stores brazil and paris and this netherland which is bitcoin are accepting bitcoin locally and hope more countries right now are accepting locally even few stores are accepting it will gradually increase more stores in the future..

I think it's a bit exaggerated to say you can buy anything in that city with Bitcoins... I doubt this a bit, as there isn't any sources of this news. But it's nice to know some stores, pubs accepted the idea from the Bitcoin enthusiasts, if they sold many things for BTCs they made a good profit since 2014. A BTC country however, is something that will take much more time to become real. The beauty here is that anyone can start accepting Bitcoins as they want, and don't accept it if they don't want, and I hope it continues this way for much time yet.

Guys! What do you think about the Liberland Project? they said that their currency will be BTC! BTCBTC
 At the beginning i thoght that people it's wasting their time, but they're pushing hard, giving conferences, spreading the libertarianism.
As son as a couple of nations recognize it, will be a boost for bitcoin!

So interesting!
I hope it'll be happen soon.
Nowadays, there'a a lot of restaurants and online stores that accepting the bitcoin as a payment and I can say that its cool bcoz soon, we can use bitcoin everywhere.

It might seem like a good idea to have a whole city built on bitcoin, but in theory it is not if you think of it really good you will find that teeing a whole economy system of country to the price of the bitcoin is something that is really bad, because bitcoin is not stable like the other currency and it could go down and even perish and that will cause the country to go down as well.

Just imagine the convenience if bitcoin has reached this point but beyond is way better. I just can't wait for the time to come for the bitcoin to gain worldwide acceptance.  :D

It is a good idea to have more cities that accept Bitcoin in stores in bars by doing that they expand the Bitcoin community.
But as long they don't replace the other ways to pay it is a pretty good idea.

True,bitcoins price would really be the hindrance for a certain country would decide if they would accept bitcoin fully. Price does really matter because we all know bitcoin is too volatile and unlike local fiat its value is already fixed which is normally wanted by most people who do live on a certain country.

We have already Bitcoin country Liberland, now let's ask when we will have Bitcoin World?

Unfortunately i didn't see quite a lot restaurants where i could pay with BTC. To be honestly i didn't see any shop where i could pay local and offline
with Bitcoins.
Where are those Restaurants where you can pay with BTC ?
Im pretty interested in such Restaurants / Coffee bars

Are You Sure ?

This is a very good development, if a whole city is accepting bitcoin as a mode of payments is an improvement from were we are before. My prayer is that one  day will come when bitcoin will be accepted in all sectors of our economic. Bitcoin make life easy, the early you buy into the idea of crypto currencies the better for you.

It's cool to have a city that accept bitcoin as the payment. A city is a great start for bitcoin and it can expand more later. But i'm wondering if they will wait for confirmation before serving food in the restaurant or just serve it.

The idea is nice. I even seen some quite famous US law firm telling Liberland may be actually legally having right to the land it claims. The thing is Croatia and Serbia both do not want the land but at the same time they do not want anyone else having it. Like children. I mean in place of Serbia and Croatia i would actually approve it just for the media attention it brings to both countries.

You are right though about the guys really pushing for it (the brainfather of project is Czech politician and it is visible) but he would need support of someone with bigger influence IMHO.

Well I googled it and you're right: https://www.arnhembitcoinstad.nl/
It's been a few years since I went to Arnhem but this seems a good reason to visit it again, perhaps this summer.  :)

Yes, it is not a small city, we want more of this from every corner of the world. People need to know the value of Bitcoin so that they can utilize it and find new ways to transact and use it.  :)

It's too good to be true! A whole country accepting bitcoin will be a big boost to bitcoin's popularity for sure. However, I would like to become a merchant of that country instead of being a normal bitcoin spender. because bitcoin is not meant for daily use.

Bitcoin is good as an investment, probably the best of best. Investing in bitcoin will fetch you such a return which no other conventional investment can think of. So it is better to treat bitcoin as an investment instead of normal currency.

I don't know about the Bitcoin country thing, but that a city that is very bitcoin friendly is great, I wish I lived in a Bitcoin friendly city like that. I guess places like that are a rarity, I don't see a town like that every day. I hope that Bitcoin usage spreads fast.

yeah i think it is a good idea. i think if we have a city in every country in which the official currency became bitcoin and we use bitcoin for buying or purchasing or selling different things through online wallet. i think if it happens it will attract a lot of user and many people will take interest in it as tourist to this city and this will improve the popularity of bitcoin.

 Quite nice, i know about Liberland because they made a conference here in Venezuela! I mean, not everyone come to a (destroyed by) socialism country to talk about libertarianism and Liberland! 

I have so much respect for European countries when it comes to technology. They always seem to do the right things. Bitcoin now is a great example of that, if you go to pretty much anywhere else in the world, there will probably only be 1 or 2 stores that actually accept Bitcoin. This also makes the problem about how people might get too attached to Bitcoin and when they visit other countries, they find it hard to fit into a community that only uses fiat to buy things. Hopefully more and more cities and countries start doing this. It takes a lot of initiative to do it though, which means that it will probably take a long time for anything to happen.

Wow !! That is so cool. Sophisticated like the Netherlands will do well with bitcoin and be more open since they educated. That's great that there is a bitcoin town. I can't wait till it spreads and becomes the norm. :)

Another visionary openness from Netherlands. I like that country more and more. I'd visit that city some day.

Unfortunately, we'll never have a Bitcoin country because BTC's guidelines're the total opposite of what governments guidelines are. They'll endure it because there's much to do with its technology and it's a good experiment too, but they won't let a decentralized and pseudo-anonymous network control their national currency.

This is great to hear. I like it that the Bitcoin is being used by more people and that shops are willing to accept Bitcoins.
I just read an article that they are making Bitcoin ATM machines in America :o

There is this swiss city Zug, http://www.coindesk.com/swiss-city-bitcoin-payments-government-services/ that will accept bitcoin for government services may be categorized as bitcoin city.
There are other bitcoin friendly cities like San Francisco,New York, Amsterdam etc.
As soon as these cities go full bitcoin, others will follow and we have then bitcoin country.

glad to see there are many more cities that accept bitcoin for the payments and i think soon we can see that other cities or countries will accept bitcoin too. i agree that big country need to accept bitcoin first and then the middle country and small country can follow their step to accept bitcoin and we can see bitcoin is using in many countries.

I do think that with time more country will come up with new innovative ideas.If more states starts accepting bitcoin then we would call them a bitcoin country. I really wanted to see that happening to my country and i am not sure how long i have to wait to see such a thing.

What's most amazing is that they've achieved this with only 3 people. The idea itself is also very easy for other people to copy, so imagine what would happen if other people try to convince stores in other cities around the world.
Initiatives like this should really be publicized more around the Bitcoin community.

It's also neat that they've included usage statistics on their website, but it also shows that Bitcoin isn't that popular as a payment system, so far less than €10.000 revenue in total per month.
https://www.arnhembitcoinstad.nl/#stats

This shows how much power bitcoin enthusiasts have and how much they can achieve.
"They convinced local stores to accept Bitcoin" - it doesn't seem like they needed much convincing. Most business owners don't know Bitcoin and don't know the benefits of using it. Nobody comes to their store asking to pay in Bitcoin and everyone pays in fiat, so why change anything? We need people to educate people and convince them to try it out, just like these guys did.

I live in the Netherlands and I am definitely going to see this town knowing this. And I really like that these guys did this.
I hope that more places do this and that we can have an entire country that accepts Bitcoin as a way to pay.

All of us bitcoin users do really like for bitcoin to be used on our country without the need of exchanging it first to fiat. Dont worry we would really come to that point since adoption is on its way but for now we would still need to exchange our bitcoin before we could able to use it.

Hats off to these enthusiasts who exert so much effort in making such a thing possible. Imagine having over a hundred merchants accept bitcoin in a community. And the good thing is they are not stopping there because they know that the potential for bitcoin to be mass adopted is very promising, all the more in Netherlands which is known as a bitcoin-friendly country. What’s also good to note is that these merchants are continuously offering perks and discounts each time you use bitcoin as payment. That should be enough to encourage bitcoin users to go ahead and spend their bitcoins more often. I wish that maybe a year from now, I could say the same for my own city.

i hope its not too long to see there are other country is applying bitcoin for the payment so we can spend our bitcoin like in that city. i am sure bitcoin user will waiting this and they are really exciting and interesting if there are many store offline out there could accept bitcoin especially if they can see it in their city.