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Title: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: MeandMissNoob on April 01, 2014, 10:25:33 AM
Hi there,

I was just interested in your latest buy with Bitcoins. Maybe you can post a link of the website so others can find out where they can spend there BTC aswell.
Mine was a meal with my gf about a week ago, in a small restaurant in The Hague Netherlands
http://www.etenbijwerelds.nl/

greets




Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: jellyhashman on April 01, 2014, 10:32:02 AM
Hired an hitman...


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: Bitcoin Magazine on April 01, 2014, 12:40:41 PM
Hired an hitman...

bought block #1 of SatoshiCoin (216 bytecoin worth) 50 BTC block for 0.00000001BTC


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: zolace on April 01, 2014, 03:16:44 PM
Easter is around the corner going to probably shop for gifts online for the easter holiday with bitcoin. 


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: n2004al on April 01, 2014, 03:19:20 PM
Hi there,

I was just interested in your latest buy with Bitcoins. Maybe you can post a link of the website so others can find out where they can spend there BTC aswell.
Mine was a meal with my gf about a week ago, in a small restaurant in The Hague Netherlands
http://www.etenbijwerelds.nl/

greets


For the moment, even the price is going down, I prefer to not spend but only to accumulate.


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: SimplyBTC on April 01, 2014, 03:42:19 PM
Bought my first coins from Casascius. Now I sell them (physical coins) from my site www.SimplyBTC.co.uk


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: 5thStreetResearch on April 01, 2014, 03:49:40 PM
Have never actually purchased a physical good with bitcoin, although have used it quite often to play poker on SealsWithClubs since the US shut down online poker in the states.  It functions amazingly in terms of depositing/ withdrawing quickly and easily.  Have also used it for some sports betting.


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: curt.rowland on April 01, 2014, 06:39:31 PM
Digital HO scale trains and Slot cars  ;D

Gyft+BTC = Amazon gift card


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: Dipt on April 02, 2014, 08:35:54 AM
I just bought some sunglasses for my girlfriend from Overstock.com


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: Bitram on April 02, 2014, 01:21:12 PM
There are new markets that recently started to accept bitcoin for various products.


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: CoinDiver on April 02, 2014, 01:23:37 PM
Last thing I bought with BTC was a 3D printer. I've made thousands printing custom parts. I'm about 1/2 way to what my BTC would have been worth had I held. UGH. I'm not buying and holding, regardless of the price.


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: Dagny on April 02, 2014, 07:38:42 PM
Donuts!!!!! at Little Lucy's (food truck in Austin TX)


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: n2004al on August 29, 2014, 01:28:41 PM
I used my bitcoin for buying cloud hash power for mining.


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: Aswan on August 29, 2014, 01:33:29 PM
I recently used my BTC to buy some Euros.


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: deepestfear on August 29, 2014, 01:45:55 PM
I gambled with some btc on PrimeDice, if that counts...


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: odolvlobo on August 29, 2014, 03:34:45 PM
I bought a Playstation 4 from NewEgg.


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: BitcoinBadger on August 29, 2014, 03:37:50 PM
I exchanged my last bitcoins into cash at localbitcoins.

I sold at 560$/coin rate :))


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: LiteCoinGuy on August 29, 2014, 03:40:50 PM
pizza, shirts, cups, physical coins

maybe i will buy something on overstock in the next weeks  :)


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: DannyHamilton on August 29, 2014, 04:06:53 PM
Paid this month's Dish Network bill.


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: sandykho47 on August 29, 2014, 04:11:17 PM
Let me see :
- $20 Steam Wallet
- some Original games
Now, with bitcoin i already have 40 original game (most games from big publisher)

Maybe some electronic items if i have more BTC :)


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: Aemon on August 29, 2014, 04:17:41 PM
What I would eventually like to do is pay off all my loans with Bitcoins....Living debt free would be so nice!


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: LiteCoinGuy on August 29, 2014, 04:17:55 PM
Paid this month's Dish Network bill.

also cool  :)

easy?


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: bbit on August 29, 2014, 04:22:57 PM
Bought an uzi and drugs.


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: DannyHamilton on August 29, 2014, 04:25:23 PM
easy?

I carry a blockchain.info wallet on my smartphone with small amounts for payments when an opportunity presents itself.

It was VERY easy.

  • Logged into my account at www.dish.com
  • Clicked the "Pay My Bill" link
  • Chose the "Current Balance" radio button, and clicked the "Continue" button
  • Chose the "Bitcoin" radio button, and clicked the "Continue" button
  • Scanned the presented coinbase payment QR-Code with my blockchain.info wallet
  • Clicked the "Send Payment" button in my blockchain.info wallet

That's it.  Account at Dish was instantly updated with the payment.


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: keythsea on August 29, 2014, 04:35:42 PM
Bought my first miner to get my feet wet.  Now that it's churning out .0071 bitcoin a month, I think I'll buy some more bitcoin and get a larger miner.


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: MightyBTC on August 29, 2014, 04:46:08 PM
I went to newegg and bought something...you all know about :)

Playstation :)

Works well and good.


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: ducatitalia on August 29, 2014, 04:53:17 PM
Bought one of these...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=756955.0


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: Traffic4u on August 29, 2014, 05:12:25 PM
Exchange to Rupiah few days ago and buy some gigs on http://fiverr.com


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: HomerS on August 29, 2014, 10:44:09 PM
I bought a book on amazon.


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: Swordsoffreedom on August 29, 2014, 11:02:07 PM
Not sure if it counts but I bought some coins using an Exchange
Pondering whether to buy something on newegg since they have a deal with Bitcoins going on though
Non-Refundable though but it does seem like a good time to get a discount on an Xbox perhaps.


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: Aemon on November 10, 2014, 02:57:15 PM
I bought some DVD's from overstock.  Was a good way to watch some cheap TV/Movies for a small part of my coins!


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: Purple Wayne on November 10, 2014, 04:37:49 PM
easy?

I carry a blockchain.info wallet on my smartphone with small amounts for payments when an opportunity presents itself.

It was VERY easy.

I didn't think you'd be a fan of blockchain.info or any online wallets. I use blockchain.info for my 'current' account and for daily purchases etc as well. Hasn't failed me yet.


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: DannyHamilton on November 10, 2014, 05:01:17 PM
easy?

I carry a blockchain.info wallet on my smartphone with small amounts for payments when an opportunity presents itself.

It was VERY easy.

I didn't think you'd be a fan of blockchain.info or any online wallets. I use blockchain.info for my 'current' account and for daily purchases etc as well. Hasn't failed me yet.

Blockchain.info is a hybrid wallet.

As long as you don't have any malware running on your system and you use a strong enough password, blockchain.info doesn't have access to your private keys or your password.

With blockchain.info you have exclusive control of your private keys.  This is the important point in keeping your bitcoins safe.  If you don't have exclusive control of the private keys, then you don't really have any bitcoins.  If you do have exclusive control, then you are completely responsible for keeping that access secure and for backing up that data to prevent loss.

Lets consider the following imaginary scenario:

  • You install Bitcoin Core
  • You create your wallet
  • You encrypt the wallet.dat file with a strong password
  • You store your encypted wallet.dat file on some "cloud drive" (dropbox, google drive, icloud, whatever)
  • You delete Bitcoin Core from your computer

Now you have your private keys securely encrypted and stored "online".

Any time you want to access your bitcoins on any computer, you can just:

  • Download Bitcoin Core onto that computer
  • Wait for it to sync with the blockchain
  • Download your encrypted wallet from the online storage
  • Decrypt the wallet.dat locally with your password
  • Install your wallet.dat in the Bitcoin Core that you just downloaded
  • Use Bitcoin Core to send and receive bitcoins
  • When you are done, re-encrypt your wallet.dat
  • Replace the online storage of your wallet.dat with the updated one
  • Delete Bitcoin Core from the computer you are using

And there you have it, Bitcoin Core IS an online wallet (as long as you download a new copy every time you use it and you store your wallet.dat encrypted online).

This is essentially what blockchain.info is doing.

When you go to their website, you download wallet software into your browser which runs locally on your computer (much like downloading Bitcoin Core every time you want to use it in my imaginary example). Then you download a copy of your private keys that blockchain.info stores for you in encrypted form.

When you type your password, it is not sent to blockchain.info.  Instead it is used locally by the software that was downloaded from the website to decrypt your private keys in your computer.  If you add any new addresses, they are encrypted locally on your computer with the same password and then sent (in encrypted form) to blockchain.info to be stored for you.

When you send a transaction, blockchain.info sends the information about the unspent outputs down to your browser, and the software running on your computer creates and signs the transaction locally on your computer.

The main risk that you take, (other than malware running on your computer) is that blockchain.info could lie to you about the unspent outputs in your wallet.  In other words, they could fool you into believing that you received bitcoins from them (or from people that they are colluding with) that they never really sent.  They can do this because the software that is running in your browser gets its list of unspent outputs from them without verifying the validity through the entire blockchain.  Of course, a quick check with other trusted block explorers whenever accepting bitcoins is an easy way to make sure that they haven't done that.



Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: Full House on November 10, 2014, 05:02:29 PM
Paid for a years subscription for my VPN and had a delicious indian takeaway last night, all courtesy of btc  


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: choeymethod on November 10, 2014, 05:21:11 PM
Hookers, blow and ak47s from silkroad. I trust them with my data 100%.


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: metrin on November 10, 2014, 05:33:37 PM
bought window 7 key and steam gift card on this forum using my bitcoins


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: tomvlad80 on November 10, 2014, 08:48:02 PM
I've paid for a beer.


Title: Re: Where and what did you just buy with your Bitcoins?
Post by: Ektra on November 10, 2014, 09:12:23 PM
Pizza, I buy a lot of pizza with my coins. In keeping with tradition of course.