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I just wanted to know if you guys use bitcoin quite often in your life. Please give me some occasions where you have used bitcoin.

I used bitcoin just for purchasing digital goods (like cloud mining/gift cards) and altcoins. I have never used bitcoin to buy any physical good (as many local merchants don't accept bitcoin :( )
Also, I would use my bitcoins to do some little trades (like playing with the BTC/USD market and get some advantage when bitcoin goes down, or buying some altcoins and take advantage whem it rise).

Every day I use Bitcoin to keep a portion of my savings secure.

Buying food.
Paying bills very recently.
Saving.
Trading.

Used bitcoins pretty nicely. I just hope I can buy groceries with it. That woulf be the last thing I need to live off only in bitcoins. :D

Yeah man i am sure everyone in this forum have used bitcoin atleast once in life.
Well,i use bitcoins to buy stuff,gamble

I use bitcoin for buying different stuff online,I do it quite often so you can count me in.

Yes, I get paid in bitcoin. My use is in payment for my time and thoughts. I don't spend much because I don't have much and a lot of places near me (coffee shops and such) don't accept it yet.

Here's a link to a transaction volume chart from blockchain.info. This should give you a sense of how many "people" are using bitcoin. Link -> https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions.

Used Bitcoin to bet online, invest in cloudmining sites and bought gadgets converting my btc to fiat as very few merchants only accept cryptocurrency in my area at moment.

Yes I do and it could be used on buying pretty much everything....I mostly buy hostings and domains / then I use a local exchange to transfer it to my bank account so I could use it to buy physical items an also to be able to pay some bills as well

I will not stay about others but i am a regular use of bitcoin.. I usually buy gift items and electronic gadgets using amazon and paying with purse. Io bitcoin payment method.. very fast and secure transaction ;D

I don't use at all my bitcoins except the occasions when I think that using those is and investment which can bring me other bitcoins. This kind of occasions, until now, has been the investments in cloud mining. There were three times when I invested in such kind of sites. One will profits, one without profits and without loss and the third with loss. The overall result (fortunately) was to have the same bitcoins "invested". I tell "fortunately" because now I'm convinced that the cloud mining sites are mostly scam and I don't invest anymore there.

Hai aubert, we meet again :v . It's okay  that you used your bitcoin to  bought domain or anything else but you told me that you ever bought an illegal account in ad*lt site with bitcoin. But that was past, I'm sure you've changed for the better

since i know bitcoin until now i'm pretty often use it and usually i'm use it for recharge my phone number
and also exchange it into my currency by using local exchange

I use it daily... I buy coffee in the morning, and take-away at lunch and if I have a meeting in a pub, I will pay for a beer or two with Bitcoin. In the evening while I am surfing

the interweb ... I will tip good content with ChangeTip. I set aside a small percentage of my income to do this... If I did not use Bitcoin, I would have used fiat.. so it's

just the same. The biggest percentage of my Bitcoin is in cold storage and I never use that.  ;) The transaction cost for daily use, is much less than credit or debit cards.  ::)

not so much for the time being, besides some little gaem bough on g2a, because if are zero with btc, instead paypal-shit ask for fee

but aside from this, i'm just holding right now, i'm not satisfied with the current price, i want 1k at least to start use bitcoin again

I've only bought digital products with bitcoins, yesterday i bought domain and hosting.

up to 1 mil.

My current use cases are :

# Converting each month a certain amount of fiat into Bitcoin to use it as a store of value.
# I send and receive money, to and from, different parts of the world a few times a week.
# I pay freelancers that do coding, designings, etc, for their efforts in Bitcoin.
# I purchase digital goods with Bitcoin, such as domains, servers, etc.

If investing is also considered a use case, then that too. Mostly every day if there is decent enough volume.

Yes I do. I have a long-term stash that I won't touch for a while. My goal is not until 2020. I also have a spending wallet that I use and pay with whenever I can. Plane tickets, hotels are among the things I use it for. For example, just this morning I donated to wikipedia and I did this just because they had an option for Bitcoin donations.

Of course, I replenish this spending wallet every now and then. I buy what I spent and almost always even a bit more.

I used ma bitcoin just for convert it to fiat, I'm a trader  8)

I only use bitcoin as a form of stable retirement investment, to accumulate wealth that will not be dilluted by more and more billions of Euros/Dollars that are being printed each year. This is all Bitcoin needs to do for me right now. More than enough!

I use my BTC mostly as an investment.

I also have a small hot wallet, for the occasional digital goodie...
Also for leaving a small tip in Reddit through Changetip.

I use bitcoin for remittances for my family because it easy for me to use the bitcoin that to go to remittance center.

I very often use bitcoin. I very much to buy vouchers and tokens of electricity via bitcoin. http://xp.sindonesia.net

Well i use bitcoin for many different things,
At the moment currently trading alt coins back and forth to bitcoin.
Purchasing rare something from digital goods, and maybe in future to buy real physical stuff.

I normaly use bitcoins for investing mining and trading on exchanges. Also i use an small % on gambling. My big percentage of bitcoins are for savings and were saved in cold storage. I will use bitcoins for normal payments if there is any discount for doing it, but in my town is very difficult to find a cafe or shop that accepts bitcoins.

I'm currently using bitcoin to place sporting bets,to play some online casinos and sometimes I do trades(BTC/USD or BTC/altcoins). I would use them to buy products from local shops in my city,but they don't accept crypto-currency yet.

A few digital products. Next up it's a tablet once I've decided which one I want. If there were places that took it where I am I'd be making far more use of it but my options are limited.

I don't use Bitcoin a lot, I just hodl, I buy low and sell high, that's all.

I use Bitcoin for savings mostly. But I also like to gamble a little, just for fun, on Bitcoin gambling sites. I'd like to use it in other fields like buying products or services but I never tried it there so far.

I heard you can buy an Amazon digital gift card with Bitcoin and then use it on amazon to buy whatever you want. If someone here had this experience I'd like to hear if it really works, because this is really interesting way to use Bitcoin IMO.

Buying physical and digital stuffs
Buying mobile credits
Buying food
Paying some people for every micro task I offer
Trading
Investing on ponzy games
Gambling on casino sites

That's it

I do. But I think it is less than 1% people who use BTC.

I wouldn't say often, cause I'm more a hodler, but yes I use it.
For instance to pay my VPN or for some other digital goods.

I used it to buy digital goods online. Mostly games such as GTA V and ARMA III.
I'Ve never used it in real life but I would like to. I've never seen a Bitcoin ATM in person though.

I haven't used bitcoin for online transaction yet, but once companies like amazon start accepting bitcoin I gladly will.

I use it to buy giftcards for a low price
I pay people who freelance for me
And to have a online wallet that I know is going to take a lot to get hacked into

it's becoming a way of life now for many people in many different ways. :)

I know I depend on it in my every day life

i'm very often use bitcoin and usually to purchase goods and convert to my currency using by local exchanger

With the BitCoin ATM around the corner from me it is very easy to buy BitCoins

Well becuase i cant access my btc on real cash. i just use it to load my phone.

world population: ~7 billion
tech population: ~2.5 billion
geek population: ~100 million
bitcon-population: ~1 million

that's my view, and there's plenty of room for growth.

Using Bitcoin mostly online and sometimes buy/sell for cash on ATM machine close to my place. There is still very few places in Croatia where you can spend your coins but i hope it will be better.

Lucky, there is no Bitcoin ATM's where I live, so I mostly use Bitcoin for online stuff.

I am using bitcoin these days to fultill almost all of my mobile topup needs. And as i also run some faucets and design websites, bitcoin has become my first option to pay for hosting and domain purchases.

Not really I am still really young so yeah, but in the future I think I will do it more.

Bitcoin is still in very early stage. Not many people know about bitcoin. Image the price when 1% of world population start using bitcoin or other crypto currencies.

Nice view. There are possibilities of spreading bitcoin to around 2.5 billion people right now. Yes all the technical people will be using bitcoin in very near future as it is very much a easy for them to understand and to adopt bitcoin compared to anybody else.

i doubt 2.5B people are tech savy, if this what you mean, the majority are on mobile and they know barely how to use a desktop extensively

otherwise bitcoin should be much bigger, it should appeal to them

not only digital good or online i use bitcoins offline as well kind off using debit card or just exchange them to paypal and then use your paypal debit card same thing and it is great and easiest for managing your money not any paper work and limitations and shits like bank

Exactly, that's what i always say to my friends, bitcoins is like a baby ( well, yes, almost 6 years have been passed ) so there is lot of good and new things to come; There is a big margin to improve + new things to add to the use of bitcoin, for me is like an excited age :)

The more uses that bitcoin will acquire along the way, the more people will use it, is just a question of time, and it's coming...

Well i want to use my bitcoin to buy a laptop.
Currently interested in a Macbook Pro Retina Display.
If anyone has for selling let me know, what i use bitcoin is mostly for trading.

ive used bitcoin for a few things. bought a couple donuts from this guys store last year who accepted bitcoin. ive used it at purse.io to buy a couple things off amazon. and i use to gamble a little bit online

Yes you can buy anything whatever you prefer with bitcoin. There are many electronic merchants who accepts bitcoin online. In the case if you're finding a bitcoin debit card then there would be more chances to buy a bitcoin in physical store itself.

By ordering the bitcoin debit card it cost me more expensive.
I am looking probably buying here in forum cheaper than from apple official store.
Anyway if i don't find anyone will hold the bitcoins as the price is increasing.

U won't know still answer to this question from topic name. No matter what people will tell you here, its too low number of opinions and only from one group to form a conclusion. :/

I don't believe it can be a viable solution to most people because of these restraints that the community has mentioned thus far. Until these problems with the way it is handled by the merchants it will never be a globally accepted way to pay for any material real world products.

Currently I know of two of hand: Dell and Newegg electronics.
As for them carrying Apple, I don't think they hold these products. They would have to be a licensed authorized reseller which is given out exclusively by them and I think the biggest big box store outside of their own are Best buy.
Maybe trade in bitcoins for best buy gift certificates. That might be your better option.

Or use the Fold app (https://foldapp.com/) to pay in your local Starbucks  :)

I use it as an investment. I pretty much try to earn Bitcoins (or other altcoins I exchange for Bitcoins) and hold them.

I do not use them really to buy anything yet.

Well if i were living in united states that would be another story.
Apple has an offer for students which every laptop is $200 off.
I live in EU and the price are much more different (most of the times they don't exchange the dollar to euro, just put the € instead of $ :P)
Your suggestions guys are great, will have a look at them and i hope to find any which fits my needs.

Any time I need to buy something, if I can buy it with Bitcoin I will. Example: The watch Im wearing I ordered fro Overstock.com recently. This was my second ever purchase with Overstock, both paid for in Bitcoin. I also shop at Newegg.com often and pay with Bitcoin. I just ordered an external hard drive today.

I could be wrong but I suppose point of OP is to show that not many people actually use Bitcoin other than for speculation, i.e. selling it later for a (hopefully) much higher price. There is nothing wrong with that even if were its sole purpose. Of course it isn't its only function, but I would seriously refrain from buying anything with Bitcoin apart from other assets such a gold or jewlery maybe. Why? I mined my bitcoins and once bought a pair of GPU raiser/extension cables worth 20 bucks for 10 Bitcoins. Yes, it was around December 2011. Now I'm thinking how could I ever do that? And I was laughing before about the Pizza guy! Ouch! In 5 or 10 years, I'm sure you will regret having bought anything with Bitcoins instead of holding onto them. Perhaps it's different if the price is stable for a longer time and you buy your bitcoins with fiat right before your purchase.

I just checked the Newegg website to try to buy a Macbook.
And seems that they do not accept now bitcoin, maybe they have any issue?
See this picture: only bitcoin is not available to make purchase:
 https://i.imgur.com/GpyOCrc.jpg

I am pretty sure they have some temporary issues! I haven't seen any announcements anywhere that they are dropping Bitcoin as the payment method!

If anyone has any news or updates, thanks for sharing! I will shoot an email to their support, let's see what their response will be.

Correct. I have seen a lot of past purchasers using the bitcoin feature on Newegg with successful transactions.
I don't know why they temporarily disabled this function on their site.
Could it because they can't evaluate a proper amount to charge due to the increase in value today?
Last I checked it was $349, almost at the $350 mark as a lot of people have predicted would happen today.

I get more and more often surprised when i speak to someone about bitcoin and the person i speak to knows what bitcoins are. Today i spoke to a relatively old man. I told him that i moved to bitcoin and he did not ask about it as if he knew. I asked back and yes, he knew about it. He had heard something about that in television. And he even had his investment adviser buy bitcoins for him, or let's say, he trades for him, trying to accumulate value by doing it.

Surprise surprise. Bitcoins fame is rising. :)

Only for investments and money making or fun.

I hardly spend it for every day goods since I dont have any shop nearby.

I use Bitcoin to receive payments and to avoid taxes.

Quite usefull, even if I can't spend BTC directly most of the times

I started using bitcoin just last year when I realized that it is much more easier to earn than $ ( for my case ). It helps in purchasing digital goods and also mobile recharge is available online intantly so I use bitcoin daily for it is convinient. ;)

I haven't use bitcoin to buy anything or use them to pay bills since the day I knew about bitcoin. I'm just earning a bitcoin and convert them into physical money. That's only I want not buying anything online.

i have use bitcoin to buy paper magazine subscription and also movies online. it is starting to grow in my area!

I have definitely used Bitcoin for keeping my savings.

I use bitcoin to pay for domain and hosting

i am only person in my life that keep bitcoin in savings. not many people around me know about bitcoin

Bitcoins is a global currency, no doubt about that. It can be used in any part of the world. Exactly, any part in this world. But, still it is not so much famous in many countries and in some countries, people don't use it at all.
But, still as an estimate there are about more than 6-7 million people across the globe using it. It's used by people in majority in USA, UK and even Australia. But, btc is expected to expand in upcoming years.

Many but it cannot be numbered though. Some uses bitcoins for paying ads. Some are earners who makes profits. Those who pay the ads pays the earners. A great sample would be the faucets. There are different types of users.

I think its because Newegg sells through other merchants as well as from their own stock. I assume they can only accept Bitcoin for their own goods.

Yeah, also my friend have doing like that. He uses bitcoin to buy domain and hosting in some his own site. He thinks it's easier than he buy that by his currency in real life.

I use bitcoin to do online shopping. I buy computers and hardware components with bitcoin whenever I can.

This is what I kind of do with bitcoin, which is to just let it sit there.  I've come to the realization that bitcoin is best used as a store of wealth than as a currency, much like precious metals.  There aren't many merchants accepting bitcoin (well, nowhere I shop accepts it), and using cash or credit/debit cards is way, waaaay easier.  I think it's definitely failing as a currency and there's no need for it to be one.  Why go out of your way to purchase bitcoin with fiat just to buy something in bitcoin?  It's unnecessary.

I have only used bitcoin for buying digital goods, as not many places accept bitcoin in Alberta for now.

I think it's a lot. can even reach millions. just look at how many people active in this forum. This forum represents how many bitcoin users today. passive and active.

i just use bitcoin for investement and payment,using bitcoin for online shop,pay bills,top up my mobile phone,and i still waiting for another service with bitcoin,i think i really use bitcoin.

Example ASIC stuff is very rare to buy/expensive in Finland.

I always use bitcoin, maybe around 0.01 bitcoin - 0.2 bitcoin. it depend though. I usually use bitcoin for gambling and some sell them all to my local exchanger.

Not really i spend BTC , i have a bulk amount that i made in early days , and i do rarely spend them , i want to keep them as Gold , and sometime i do couple of Phone Bill payment when BTC is high.

Of course millions occupy the currency.

not more than 2 milion real users.  there were around of 1 mil users about 2 years ago. so bitcoin is not so big as the shitty BTC media is saying. Coindesk is lying and it's making propaganda with fake and useless news. :)

https://bitscan.com/bitnews/item/how-many-people-really-own-bitcoins-and-why-does-it-matter


perfectmoney.com or okpay.com   are much bigger than Bitcoin even these systems do not have a such media. it's so funny! :)))

not many in my country who accept bitcoin. so I just exchange it with fiat every week and for online shopping only be used to buy pulse

how many people really use bitcoin .I can,t guess about it. I  hope maybe one million above now using bitcoin but now you can only guess not can say about bitcoin how many people really use bitcoin

i use bitcoin most of all to buy things on amazon whit purse.io, and i use it for gambling small sums, ive never used bitcoi in a physical store

i use bitcoin to save some and use it on the like my mainly long term investment and i use some to buy things online, example a good vpn or gift cards

I think its not possible to know that it get used by a lot of people but some people only use it one time that is the problem. I think the most just long invest, its of course the best thing to do.

Mostly people are using bitcoin for transaction. I have been also using bitcoin for the transaction purpose. Now a days more people are using than the previous statistics. This reduced transaction fees are now a days attracting more common men who are not much aware of bitcoins.

That is cool too. Bitcoin also needs to be used regularly and not just stuck everything in ages. Use some and save some for the price increase. That is what I always think so that it will circulate.

i font know how many people use bitcoin in my town,in my country,i just think almost all of them use bitcoin for trading,investement,and daily use. for me,i use bitcoin for that all,yes i do that all ;D

I use bitcoin only for the necessities of life and not spend it just to play gambling. because I have a special capital to play gambling that I got from the giveaway or free bitcoin of gambling site.

also in my country there are a few merchant that accepts bitcoin, so i use it to buy things online, but most as investment

Virtually now it is free to use bitcoin for whatever purpose you want. It is sure that there are some big stores/services which did not start using bitcoin yet but there are best alternatives of that stores/services , which are much better then any other, Nowadays I am using bitcoin for all my transactions and it is much convenient for me to receive and spend money in bitcoin.

Most are only being used by traders to profit. So the real usage is low as compared to the volume in the exchange sites. Bitcoin has yet becoming a major payment option.

there aren't that many people who are really using bitcoin. because there is not enough places that accepts bitcoin and in some countries there is even none.

i have only used bitcoin to buy altcoins and that is just an alternative way of investment and not really a usage. but if there were places even online that accepted bitcoin directly i would do my online shopping with bitcoin at least.

I think all people who know about bitcoin really use bitcoin. in my country bitcoin not really popular, only some people know about bitcoin. it's like 1% of my country population.

I am using bitcoin to buy mobile load when needed, but not all the time, sometimes I am not at home,  and to make sure that my wallet is safe, I use fiat..  :)

I bought a Spotify acount and also some private tracker torrents invites recently. I wouldn't be able to do it using fiat money at all!

When you compare the number of people who has using bitcoins to those who are not using, those using bitcoins are few but their number is significant. Personally, I use bitcoins to buy airtime for some cellphones, pay for online services, exchange for fiat and even use them to lend to others.

People who are using bitcoin are less that 20 millions in the whole world

they are around 3M, the user base was already estimated, and i'm sure among thsose there are only nerd and tech savy, very few average joe

if there were average joe the numbers would have been crazy right now

Bitcoin gave the power to people to act as bank institutions, lending and borrowing money around. There are plenty of activities one could do using bitcoin instead of just holding it.

We could have an ideia of how many people are really using by looking at the estimates of exchange users. In my country, the second largest exchange has more than 100k users...

But those who REALLY use them is definitely way less. Most are just trading them for holding and profits after converting it back to FIAT but those who really purchase items, pay their bills etc are only a few.

I do not really honest. I think many people have it, but I do not use most of it. I think there are also people who have forgotten that they had Bitcoin.
But Bitcoins active users, there are also a lot of.

I don't use in real life.
Sometimes for gamble but small amounts.
Trade on exchanges btc to $, btc to euros..
Trading with aitcoins.
Keeping most of my coins in cold wallet.

I think we are many i think we are thousandth and everyday we are increasing population in bitcoin world.
But i think some investors are decreasing because of scam tradings sites or some investment site.. This is a bad view for bitcoin...

Thousands of people come and starting to get curious about bitcoin, but at same time some people also leave the BTC scene, but it think more are coming in that leaving 

I'm using bitcoin and also i introduced bitcoin to some of my friends. But only two of them were really interested in using bitcoin and two of my relatives too using bitcoins. I introduced them too ;D

I use btc to buy things such as downloading site premium accounts and domains at times. I hold some, but have bought some things and want to get some games.

I just use bitcoin for steam products and items on different games. I basically use it for digital and for game. However, if i ever have the opportunity to save up i would go for bigger products like mouses, USBs ...etc  :)

I use Bitcoin all of the time. I use it now for business and normally, I'm paid from clients in Bitcoin as it's the easiest solution for me and I even find it better than using card payments (it's a lot safer).

it really depends on my mood. If i want something really badly, i just buy it. Most of the time i just store BTC and wait and sometimes i also use it for the occasional gamble. ;). yeah, but most of the time i just store.  :) :) :)