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I am interested in compiling a list of businesses that exclusively accept Bitcoin. Businesses that exclusively accept bitcoin are a value added asset to our community as they are more likely to not immediately cash out and any person doing business with them are incentivized to buy bitcoin first. These are the businesses we should value and support first and foremost as they are placing their trust completely in our ecosystem.

Please exclude these businesses: illegal drug and murder for hire , porn, ICO's , mixers, securities, ponzi's, cloud mining companies, hot wallets, payment processors, scam or misleading goods or services, and gambling sites.
Some of those goods and services are important for society but should be listed in a different directory.

Preliminary list :

General Goods and Services
https://beerbellybees.com             raw Ohio honey
https://bitcoinjerky.com                Jerky
https://btctrip.com                        Flight Booking
https://dutyfree.io                         Duty free cigarettes
https://icall.com                            VoIP  service
http://persianshoes.com               meticulously handmade shoes
https://c0ffer.com                         gemstones
https://steamgamesbtc.com          Steam game trading marketplace
https://pokemonbtc.com               pokemon game cards
https://www.bitrefill.com             Top up prepaid mobile phones
http://www.abitsky.com/en/        Airline booking
https://cigsspot.com                    Duty free cigarettes
https://www.bitpremier.com/       Luxury Items
http://pizzaforcoins.com/             Pizza
http://www.travelforcoins.com/     Travel Agency
http://bitcoincommodities.com      Gold and Silver
https://nastyfans.org/mint            Physical Bitcoins


Bitcoin only related products/ Crypto only Exchanges
https://bitcointrezor.com             Bitcoin Hardware Wallet
https://haasonline.com                bitcoin trading bot software


Bitcoin hosting and development
https://bitnodes.io                        Cloud hosting per hour
https://bithost.io                         Cloud hosting per hour
https://www.cleverpuffin.com        Web Hosting
https://bitcoinwebdesign.com        Web development
https://viso.online/                         Web Hosting
http://sporestack.com/                    Server hosting


Payment Shopping Marketplace/ Advertising Platforms
https://purse.io                           amazon escrow marketplace
https://cryptothrift.com               escrow marketplace
https://openbazaar.org                decentralized marketplace
http://coinad.com/                      advertising platform
http://bitrecruit.com                  Talent mining recruitment engine
http://answer.market/               Bitcoin paywall

Magazines, Directories, Forums and Publications

https://bitcointalk.org Bitcoin Forum

What about sites that accept other cryptos as well as bitcoin? Those count right?

http://coinsfortech.com/
http://www.cryptosextoys.com/

Of course, This list is essentially any non gambling/porn/drug site that accepts BTC and rejects all fiat. If they accept multiple crypto currencies that can actually be a good thing unless the currency is a scam ICO. If they accept another crypto and not bitcoin , that belongs on another forum or the alt section of this one and I'm not interested in adding it here.

Thanks, I added those to the list.


Cool, but we will revisit when they actually go through with that promise.

https://cryptothrift.com/

Cryptothrift is an ebay-style market. It accepts just BTC and LTC.

Always been crypto-only here :D

http://c0ffer.com

you sure that they dont cash them out into fiat?since companies need to pay for things, including salary of the workers, restocking product, atleast they will cash out the bitcoins  ::) ::)

I was clear about the benefits of btc only businesses in my first post. Of course, it is impossible to know what a business does immediately after they receive the Bitcoin and most likely convert a percentage of their BTC into fiat for practical reasons but if they would go to such an "extreme" to turn down fiat there is a greater probability they are likely to keep a greater portion in BTC or not convert any to fiat altogether.

Here's my contributions:

https://www.bitcointrezor.com/

http://www.haasonline.com/

http://www.hermeticseal.org

https://www.bitmaintech.com

http://cryptochips.net/

https://coinlock.com

https://coinapult.com/

https://purse.io/

https://brawker.com/

https://bit-x.com/

https://www.dutyfree.io/

https://bitbybitbooks.com/

http://highkart.com/

https://www.bitcoinjin.com/

https://airbitz.co/

If I find any others, I'll post it here.

Flippin' Awesome, You guys are the best! added most of those. I suppose I left off that we should narrow down the list to also exclude  cloud mining companies, online hot wallets, ponzis, securities, ICO's.

Basically, I am looking for companies that sell normal goods and services that only accept bitcoin. I have nothing against some of those categories but I am trying to create a list of "normal" businesses.

Nice idea, but you may divide it into several sub-lists.
One sub-list for porn and drugs, one for gambling, another for computer equipment...

Or am I the only one not to have any interest for cryptosextoys?

This was one of the most outstanding things I have seen on Bitcoin talk in the past 12 months actually. A great Idea and a post that deserves stickied. These businesses need to be not only known in this community but used by us for as much as we can use them for. Thank you inBitweTrust, you have done a great thing for the use of bitcoins in a way other than trading them for some quick cash. I just wish there were 10 times as many places.

;) I suppose you are a meat and potatoes kinda person that doesn't need any extra help?




Yes, I agree. This is just a preliminary list, that should be turned into a complete directory, or added to an existing one. Probably a good idea to keep the darkweb and illegal products and services separate though as not to offend the sensitive.

What will be great is also to have a section of goods and services that only sell a certain type of product or brand for bitcoin and no other competing store sells a similar product in fiat.

Wow nice, these guys have balls, legit pioneers.

Apparently this directory site just launched:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=953797.0

https://wherebits.com/

Looks brand new, so guess it'll take time and new entries for it to be more comprehensive.

Good find, and bookmarked but It unfortunately doesn't differentiate between businesses that accept both BTC and fiat from BTC only ... so investigating each business would be a nightmare.

To reject all fiat these companies must ONLY accept payments in and pay their expenses with bitcoin - do all of these companies satisfy that requirement?

I doubt it.

The economy isn't large enough yet to be able to completely abandon fiat.

... are great , but should be another thread.


What is more likely is that most of these businesses likely keep most of the BTC net income in Bitcoin because the owners have a day job or other businesses which pay them in fiat.  Technically, you can live completely on Bitcoin nowadays but the reality is that there are at most 3-6 million of us that use bitcoin and most don't spend it regularly thus there just isn't enough people buying with BTC.... This doesn't take away from the reasons we should support them and the value they bring to the community however.

The legality of the business doesn't concern me per say (whether something is ethical or not has nothing to do with whether something is legal or not)... The only reason I want to keep all those categories out of this thread is merely because there are so many examples and I don't want this thread to be diluted in a sea of porn , cloud mining , gambling and illicit drugs sites.... It is merely a point of focus so we can hunt all these categories down first without the distraction of sorting through all of those other examples. Make another thread or I will do so next week if you don't.

Far from it. I'm just not into toys, but I'll be happy to take your lady to a swingers' club.


It would be nice to start, but if you're old enough to remember the early days of the web, there were several directories 20 years ago, and I believe they're all gone. What has survived is large retailers which also sell stuff from smaller ones. This may be an example to follow.

http://steamgamesbtc.com/

Nice web here where you can buy steam games with Bitcoin.

Magazine ?

http://www.timeinc.com/about/news/press-release/time-inc-partners-with-coinbase-to-become-the-first-major-magazine-publisher-to-accept-bitcoin-payments/

Interesting list. Bookmarking for later.

Yes, their are legit. I have purchased a lot from them.

Updated list.


Time still accepts Fiat. BTC only list.


Always sounds good. I'll PM you when I'm in town and We can swap ladies and visit a club. Good to know there are still some good people in this world with good ethics and willing to share.



Agreed. This list will likely remain small but will always persist as some people practice conscious consumerism and will go out of their way to support BTC only businesses. This doesn't mean that we shouldn't support companies like overstock as well as they have done a lot for our community and we should be grateful.  

Pesobang (http://pesobang.com/) is a website made by a former Chinese eBay Powerseller who quit PayPal and started accepting Bitcoin (his story can be found here (http://pesobang.com/why-a-chinese-ebay-power-seller-quit-paypal-and-start-accepting-bitcoin/)).

EDIT: It seems that the website is temporarily down, damn. I can still access the product images, so I guess it will return later on.

Business that only take bitcoin have balls and determination at being a true pioneer. More should follow.

Yes we reject all fiat since the beginning :)
Pesobang.com (http://www.pesobang.com) is now fully operationnal, you can order more a thousand products, the shipping is free and we ship worldwide ( except in China, Seychelles, South Soudan and Syria).
We hope our shop will satisfy you, we aim to provide fun online shopping experience to digital currency users, with the best service possible.

Best regards

Glad to hear that you guys are back! I'll be ordering something in the near future, that's for sure.

We hope you will find your happiness :)

Ok added Pesobang to the list... but I did see a couple database errors when trying to checkout items. You may need a bit more testing with that site.

Yes you may have " error etablishing database " sometimes, it's because our web hosting has moved us to an other database server which slows our website... We will work on that to find a solution and improve the navigation on our website. If you encounter this problem, just refresh the page and it should be good.

the Alarm clock on Pesobang's front page looks pretty wicked if anyone wants to buy it for me :)

This initiative is amazing! I love your list, but can I have small little request? Could you please add a small description to each link i.e.: "online electronic and hardware shop", because list is quite large and I don't want to click on every link to see what they are offering.

Good idea ... Your wish is granted sir.

I think you might remove HighKart.com from your list. There is no update on their site for long and they are now probably involved in a cloud mining ponzi BestCloudMine.com as they are openly advertising on their site. Moreover, they were probably never a bitcoin 'only' site. Their prices are in FIAT and they accepted FIAT as well. Bitcoin was just an option like Gyft.

You are correct, and their SSL cert is untrusted , and their shopping cart is broken... Removed. thanks.

Bitmain actually accepts paypal and amazon dollars (via it's amazon store). They even accept bank wires via their bitmaintech website.

Purse.io is really an exchange where people trade amazon dollars for bitcoin, so IMO they are only a little different then say coinbase or bitstamp.

It really makes little sense for a business to only accept bitcoin as payment for their services/goods because it causes too many potential customers to be unable to purchase from them. The most ideal solution for businesses would be to accept bitcoin and offer a discount in exchange for paying in bitcoin, or charging a premium for paying in fiat.

Well you might want to add ---> https://bitcoingeneralstore.com/ - A general store ........ And you can use
http://bitbrew.net/ for your coffee needs  ;D

And for the best jewelry ....go to ---> http://olga-star.com/

A shoutout goes to RCHumprey for the top two...  ;) .... The owner and a big supporter of Crypto Currencies.  ;) I agree... let's support the community.

That is very nice of you that you agreed with my idea and added short decryption to addresses of these sites. That ist look very simple and helpful. Thanks. Now I know that I might avoid clicking on that sex toys shop.

Added BTC only photographer
http://www.coindesk.com/london-photographer-embarks-on-bitcoin-only-challenge/

Why exclude gambling sites?
All this site can add value to bitcoin.

I think it's to look for more practical purposes of Bitcoin. Gambling can be fun, but it's not practical.

This is an interesting list.

I didn't know that there were BTC accepting ONLY businesses.

I heard of businesses accepting BTC as well, but not only BTC.

Thanks for the list  :D

I don't think we need a directory for gambling sites being that so many of them pay muppets to spam their business within this forum feeding off the impulsive and credulous.

Go ahead and create your own thread of gambling sites.

P.S... I believe gambling sites should exist without restrictions despite my disfavor for them.
Here is your directory- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Gambling

That is the shitty part with merchants that accept - exclusively or not - Bitcoin.
They cash it out to fiat.
But that is completely understandable because even though they might pay their employees in BTC, they have suppliers that want cash.

Look at the list of products and services. Many do this as a side job and are unlikely to be getting much or any money from the less than 1 million bitcoin spenders. At this stage it is more likely they will save at least some of their BTC to recirculate or for investment purposes.

Additionally, if they are so bold to reject all fiat they are doing this for ideological reasons and thus more likely to retrade the BTC further improving our ecosystem. Of course some one down the line eventually will trade out most the btc for fiat but supporting these businesses is a way to reduce bleeding out into fiat and strengthen our ecosystem.

Additionally , any bitcoin only businesses often force the buyer to buy bitcoin to trade which also helps.   

They want nice, predictable numbers, too - probably because whoever's spearheading this wants to keep their job. You still get scolded in the business world if you make exponentially more money than you originally forecast because it probably means you didn't really know what you were doing while committing company resources to the project. Almost all enterprise software doing anything with cash forecasting over a span greater than a few months will factor in inflation, and while we don't have great models for something largely arbitrary, we're talking about differences of a few tenths of a percent YoY vs 50-5000% variances YoY. Even over the past few months, even though we're saying bitcoin's super-stable, it's still super-volatile compared to almost any national currency.

The risk appetite for BTC-only businesses is concerning in itself. Holding large percentages of reserves in BTC is dangerous, especially for resource-strapped startups.... but most of those on the list have survived quite possibly the most boring (thinking purely as a speculator) valleys in BTC history, which was preceded by a drawn-out, moderate decline in value. Maybe they have low transaction volume and keep a tiny inventory (it's a hobby), or maybe they just have tons of resources in reserve to draw from, or maybe they really are just cashing out even though they don't accept fiat.

But, does it really help forcing your buyer to do something they wouldn't normally do?
Or will it make them look for another shop which takes their fiat?
 

These are obviously mostly side projects where most have a day job paying the bills.
These days you can buy practically anything for Bitcoin directly so why do any of them need to cash out to fiat?

Example 1) I buy photography services which forces me to buy more bitcoin on an exchange because I refuse to dip into my savings, Abigail takes the bitcoin and buys some furniture on overstock with bitcoin , overstock cashes out 90% into fiat but saves 10% in bitcoin.

Example 2)I buy photography services which forces me to buy more bitcoin on an exchange because I refuse to dip into my savings, Abigail takes the bitcoin and notices another btc only business (possibly through this thread) and decides to spend her money there instead which keeps the btc in the ecosystem longer instead of cashing out to fiat.

The more clients do this and businesses trade amongst others doing this, the more it will strengthen our ecosystem.



There are already thousands of shops that will sell you the goods and services in this directory. What these businesses are doing are offering a value added proposition to their clients. They are allowing agorists and conscientious consumers a choice to opt out of a corrupt system. To some of us this is a very important feature that we will gladly pay more for (although some of these goods and services are nicely priced) and be forced to buy more btc for. Some of us really don't like paying for drones that go around and murder children or funding our own surveillance state. We understand that while we are somewhat powerless under the current framework to make this choice we can limit our support with the principles of agorism. Bitcoin is a very useful tool for accomplishing this goal.

I apologize. I completely knew about your company and let this one slip. It is now added.


Needs a bit of work from testing but promising. Added and good luck.


 :'(

Brawker shutdown and removed.
http://blog.brawker.com/
http://coinfire.io/2015/04/15/brawker-shuts-down/

Well isn't it also quite conceivable that those are just "brands" or "branches" of existing companies or stores, only created with the intention of attracting Bitcoin business? People who like Bitcoin accept it, because it's their 'hobby'. They're into Bitcoin because they want to help its adoption. They won't quit just because sales are low at the beginning.

If you look through the list you can see that most of the businesses are unlikely to be  offshoot "brands" for the sake of targeting bitcoin enthusiasts. I would expect many of these businesses to accept fiat in person, but the fact that their website only accepts bitcoin does somewhat limit the amount of fiat they take in. I am under no misapprehension that most of the btc gets turned into fiat and vice versa for all businesses. The point is there is a greater probability that a certain percentage of bitcoin stays within our ecosystem with these businesses and that is good enough at this stage. Just like how overstock keeps 10% in BTC (despite that a percentage   of it may eventually be turned into fiat when they offer to pay their employees bonuses in bitcoin.) This delay in leaking to fiat and or the fact that a certain percentage will keep some in bitcoin will help our ecosystem.

This discussion does bring up another business idea or opportunity. Create bitcoin only accepting businesses that hold profits in bitcoin (which can be proven and verified on the blockchain) for a certain set of time (1-5 years). It would have to be examples where it is a side business or hobby and the owner is in bitcoin for the long haul. Another concern for this idea is the tax implications of amassing such a store of bitcoin so may be better suited for businesses that are anonymous in nature and /or offer digital products and services.

Valid reasoning, but I still can't really believe that you can just live off of the income generated by a shop only accepting BTC. Even if you ran that shop without paying taxes, etc. it wouldn't be enough, most likely. Creating a shop that keeps the BTC is a great way to attract Bitcoin enthusiasts, but how are you able to prove you're not spending the coins at some point over the next 5 years!?

That is why it would have to be a side business or hobby. Additionally, many people living in more rural areas or that are self sufficient don't need much of an income and have their own gardens and trade and barter locally. Some of the businesses in that directory likely do that as well. I.E..  Technically I can live with a salary less than 2k a year If I wanted to as I am almost completely self sufficient on my permaculture farm. Fiat income does not necessarily equal quality of life either... some of us live in paradise for almost nothing.


Many ways to do this....

1) deposit btc in publicly audible blockchain address where clients can see their purchases deposit in realtime and audit the business is keeping their word. Reputation would be maintained and easily verified by anyone auditing at any time. All outputs would be seen in realtime and ruin the businesses reputation.

2) payments made to multisig address where a majority of keys held by outside escrow agents to insure that funds aren't spent beforehand

3) Payments transferred immediately using nLockTime or soon to be incorporated checklocktimeverify to lock the btc on the blockchain and make them impossible to spend within a certain amount of time. This could be verified and audited in a decentralized matter like option 1.

Added - https://bitroses.com/
http://pokemonbtc.com/
http://bannersforbitcoins.com/

Great, i've bought small amounts of silver in the past with amagi, decent dealers and good support. May try to buy some small time metals in the future with BTC to test it out.

Added 2 host companies

https://bithost.io                         Cloud hosting per hour
http://www.cleverpuffin.com        Web Hosting

Nice list ... like the beginnings of Alibaba for bitcoin.

Wonder what wallet s/ware, services etc these businesses are using for shifting btc around and how much it touches fiat in the background, or if at all?

hostdingle web hosting also accepting bitcoin payment

This won't be added to the list as it accepts others payment methods as well. Didn't you read the topic title and the OP?

I think, www.LocalBitcoins.com & www.100bit.co.in can be added to the list. Both are trading platform that does not accept FIAT.

My apology :)

Thanks, but those both accept Fiat.


Your suggestion is rather odd as those 2 exchanges Raison d'être is to exchange fiat for cryptocurrencies.

You would have to suggest exchanges like shapeshift.io which only deal in crypto, which I suppose I can start adding.

As a business, neither LocalBitcoins nor 100bit.co.in accept FIAT. Users can exchange FIAT through them.

Yes, you can add ShapeShift.io, Bitin.io, Simpleswap.me etc. too...

I would agree. They both will only ever hold customer bitcoin, and will both never touch customer fiat. The fiat involved in transactions will only be sent directly from the bitcoin buyer to the bitcoin seller

I see what you are suggesting as they only are the arbitrators or escrow agents in the transaction. This is somewhat of a grey area where I will fall on the side of leaving them off as they facilitate people selling their bitcoin for fiat which is not what this list is intended to promote. I like those sites and they are very important to our ecosystem but this list is to highlight businesses who purposely reject all fiat and take a principled stand with not facilitating it either.

Thanks for your suggestion of Bitin.io , I added that too.


Yes, I'm on the fence about listing them, but will leave them off as they do assist people in getting rid of their Bitcoin where this list is intended to encourage people to stay within the crypto currency ecosystem.

I realize that some or most of bitcoin spent with businesses in this directory will be eventually converted to fiat and it is unrealistic for most people to completely stop transacting in fiat. I am being realistic about taking small steps to help promote businesses that have a very slight benefit to our ecosystem. With enough effort and time these businesses can help bolster and strengthen our community and encourage other businesses to join.

Nice!!

Will be adding them here:
https://wherebits.com

Well, I understand and appreciate your logic. I updated my previous post and added another exchange SimpleSwap.me, which you probably missed. Please note that, I have never used these bitin.io/simpleswap.me. So, I can not vouch for their authenticity like I can do for LocalBitcoins/100bit.co.in.

By the way, you may add a bitcoin only recharge platform - bitrefill.com. Though they are using Bitpay and hence indirectly dumping coins for FIAT.

While I do not have time to do a complete investigation on all sites submitted I do perform a very quick check and will have to leave off simpleswap.me because of the lack of a SSL cert which is either extremely irresponsible or hint that it is a scam. Will reconsider once they fix that and we get some more feedback.

I found another candidate - https://coingateway.net

and  bitrefill.com is an excellent suggestion. Thank you kind sir.  :)

Please can you add "https" to our link ? Thank you :)

removed due to sites being down.

https://bitbybitbooks.com              Incremental Publishing from author to reader
https://coinlock.com                   escrow marketplace
http://coinsfortech.com/
https://cryptosextoys.com             Sex Toys
https://bitcoinjin.com                    beauty products
https://pesobang.com                   eCommerce marketplace
https://www.abbybitcoin.com        London Photographer
https://www.knives4bitcoin.com    knives
https://bannersforbitcoins.com      Printed Banners
https://operationfabulous.com    Advertising Platform
https://coingateway.net             Cryptocurrency Exchange
https://bitin.io                           Cryptocurrency Exchange

Sad to see these go .

The good news is that now we have a whole decentralized marketplace -
https://openbazaar.org

Please suggest any other businesses for me to add to the list.

Wow. That's a lot of dead businesses. What happened to Amagi? I heard some bad things about them after a change of ownership or something. I don't think them going crypto only is a very good move any more.

Hey, I have a "store"... infozara.net (http://infozara.net) ... I also reject fiat and only accept Bitcoins, it's simple but you can buy some musical gear there (just ask me before, because some may have been sold)... that's where BTC lives forever... we exchange goods and take coins, them we buy something to eat with the same coins, them we smoke weed with this same coin and so on. LOVE BTC

Yeah, great mate. You provide the user of bitcoin to spend their bitcoin. Usually the stores not accept the  bitcoin anymore. Your site can be alternative way if i can't find some musical gear in my real life.

Wow where was this post
This is freaking awesome!!!

Amagi still excepts fiat and the hard truth is that unless you are operating some distinct business that serves the underserved (gambling, drugs, ect...) it is very hard to not accept fiat. These businesses are likely paying the bills with another side business, which is understandable. The good news is that we have Openbazaar which is growing and soon dropzone will come out as well .



Thank you. Added.

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added - http://coinad.com/                      advertising platform

Added -


https://Bitcoin.com Bitcoin Forum, Directory, and Portal
https://bitcointalk.org Bitcoin Forum

That's awesome,  I may actually have to spend some bitcoin there next time I'm in the mood for some precious metals.   They've been on a tear lately, too.

Added http://bitrecruit.com and http://www.abitsky.com/en/

that's a cool list altho the bitcoin.com joke of a website do get fiat to promote scams.

I don't really belive that bitcoin can go out from fiat really, maybe in future when bitcoin will be more trusted but now i don't see any possible ways to reject all fiat. Anyway we will see what happen in future.

Yes you are correct. I removed them from the list as I see alts and paypal accepted now in their store. For a brief moment it was BTC only .

Shapeshift.io also accepts alts to sell for btc so technically I should have never added them either.

Removed
 https://infozara.net                     Music Instruments and Accessories - site down
https://bitroses.com                    Flowers - site down

added -
http://bitcoinwebdesign.com Web development
https://viso.online/ Web Hosting

A very helpful thread indeed. We should create more of this. I hope I can somehow share in the future but for now I am relying to your list. Thumbs up to you.

Bitcoins can be used everywhere i dont understand people who dont know waht to do with the bitcoin  but has bitcoins they are not able to consider
about this and needs to stop[ using it for sure

Added these stores-

https://www.bitpremier.com/       Luxury Items
http://pizzaforcoins.com/             Pizza
http://www.travelforcoins.com/     Travel Agency
http://bitcoincommodities.com      Gold and Silver

List is awesome indeed. It's very nice that some members put effort to create this kind of lists. I support it and if topic is updated with new informations regularly its bigger plus.
I agree that this list is for us and we can share it to people, but its always better when there is a site with useful informations, in that way there is more space for describing sites.

Honorable mention
http://destinia.com/

Because they only accept BTC in Venezuela


http://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-venezuela-travel-hyperinflation/

But doesn't make the list.

Another BTC only shop

https://nastyfans.org/mint

Added

http://answer.market/               Bitcoin paywall