Bitcoin Forum

Hi, bitcoin users i am from the Philippines. Willing to know if bitcoin is accepted to in your country. Because right now i have used one service that allows me to pay online or shopping buy steam and load so i am wondering if bitcoin is being used or known in your country.    ??? ??? ??? ???

You can get to know the legitimacy of Bitcoin for each country by following this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bitcoin_by_country

According to Philippines: "On 6 March 2014, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) issued a statement on risks associated with bitcoin trading and usage. Bitcoin exchanges are not regulated by BSP at the moment."

There are also 7 merchants who accepts Bitcoin in Philippines: https://www.techinasia.com/bitcoins-spend-7-merchants-accepting-bitcoins-philippines

Lastly, you can visit your local board here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=219.0
in case you have any further queries.

Those people who know about bitcoin and who have adopted bitcoin definitely accept bitcoin whenever we come to deal with them for any thing, but unfortunately they are not the sellers of anything, they are either online earners or ex-changers.

It's not accepted here in Algeria , even MasterCards and Visa aren't accepted at shops lol.

Yes but in a small scale at the moment. Still too early for it to be widely accepted in most countries. About it's usage and being known, yes there's many bitcoin users here but our ways of spending is very limited for now.

Bitcoin is accepted in almost every thing online.
Yes there are also some bitcoin exchanges in my country but its not being used offline yet in my country.

when it comes to online merchants in my country accepting bitcoin as payment tool, then there are quite a few. but when it comes to local businesses accepting bitcoin, then there are barely any. there are 2 bars where you can pay with bitcoin for your beer and other drinks, but you'll need to drive around 30 kilometers to get there. i have been there once just to see how it is, but never again as it's not worth it for me to drive there for a few beers.

There are several companies as merchants working with bitcoin, but just online, on the real life there are some developers companies accepting bitcoin as payment, in your situation  i would try to sell the coins and use the fiat otherwise save and hold your coins, one day people will use bitcoin more then today.

Yeah using bitcoin online is very good at a moment but its not widely accepted offline everywhere yet and it will take a long time in my country to happen that.

There are a lot of physical shops and bars accpeting bitcoin in the Netherlands.

In Arnhem alone, there are a lot: http://www.arnhembitcoinstad.nl/#deelnemers They are even promoting themselves as bitcointown now. Online there are even more possibilities.

Yea bitcoin is accepted in my country and 1% online buys and sales in my country Croatia are with bitcoin cryptocurrency so I think that then bitcoin have huge potential to grow minimum  50000$ per piece.I think that bitcoin price will forever be 50000-100000$ per piece.

Never accepted for a merchant,store and another like that, but in my country, the people is free to use a bitcoin as they want. but for you know in my country isn't recommended to buying goods from foreign because the taxes is very high. :( at this time a lot of people in the process of learning about bitcoin.

bitcoin is already widely used in my country. however today bitcoin mash has not been recognized and guaranteed by the government. no financial institution that guarantees bitcoin. any regulations made still uncertain.

It's free in my country, maybe the government doesn't make any legitimate for bitcoin but they not ban bitcoin or prevent that. bitcoin is starting to distribute in my country and a lot of people is want to learn about that.

Bitcoin is accepted in my country but the only place i know in my city that actually accepts it was cex but when i went in there and tried to do a bitcoin transaction noboddy in their knew how to do it then the one guy who did informed me that they didnt actually do it at that branch so it was a little disappointing.

hmm.. i am from nepal and here people have recently started to hear about bitcoins and only few are using it in my guess but in soon future i know there will be more bitcoin users here and it will be completely be accepted here too !

No in my country Bitcoin is illegal currency. So the government will not entertain this currency. But those who know about Bitcoin they are making money from it. Means they will make Bitcoin from signature or gambling or any other work. And they will sell Bitcoin to a 3rd party or any sites. But still, many people surrounding me they don't know what is Bitcoin.

In Singapore, there isn't any clear regulations laid out for Bitcoins and hence many merchants are wary of using it. AFAIK, there are only several cafes and bars that accept it. There is however, several Bitcoin ATMs around here and I often see the most popular one getting the coins sold out.

Of course, there's a lot of shops accepting it online though it isn't based in Singapore.

Bitcoin is by authorities still considered as monopolly money here in Croatia but i think we are making some small progress. We have BTM machine in Zagreb citty where i live and i think there will be few more at other cities soon. It is still not accepted at any real store though but even this is better than nothing.

In September 2014, Bangladesh Bank said that "anybody caught using the virtual currency could be jailed under the country's strict anti-money laundering laws"

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Yes, at least so far. Hopefully will continue to be accepted, the Bitcoin has an important role in the economy.

some cafes and specific stores accept bitcoin in here

a few more years bitcoin will be recognized in my country. I am confident because now many emerging companies who regulate bitcoin. some companies are trying to refer to the government to make laws governing the deployment of bitcoin.

in my country indonesia my government doesn't admit bitcoin as the currency but using bitcoin is not an illegal action and bitcoin users not protected by the law it mean if someone else loosing his bitcoin here then he could not bringing lawsuits his problem because all risk of loss will be his own risk

Bitcoin is accepted in my country (Canada) at some more specific places but it isn't wide-spread across the whole country from what I know. It's primarily accepted as an entity by most people and I don't think the government cares too much about it beyond it existing, but I have yet to find a physical shop that accepts Bitcoin.

My government really doesn't have much idea about bitcoin and that's why they usually don't bother. The moment they will start bothering, I will have to sell my holdings and settle with fiat currency.

I heard that Japan and Canada is thinking about legalizing bitcoin. If it happens, it will be a good move for their countrymen.

Unfortunately No , Bitcoin is not popualr in my country . more over , most of the people here doesn't know that there is a currency named Bitcoin , but sometimes , I watch some members from my country in a bitcoin earning site or even in this forum , so I need long time to see Bitcoin as accepted currency in my country.

yes in my country im free to use bitcoin, but not offline because no one is offering anything offline. But im thinking of starting a service offline for BTC, but problem is there is very less number of people who are using bitcoin in my area. by the way yes i can buy things online like mobile topups other accessories.

well it is kinda accepted in my country either because people can use it freely though i cannot say that there are a lot of shops accepting it

Actual bitcoins aren't used at all to pay for good and services. but since we can't trade our local currency for any other, people use btc to bypass the government ban on currency exchange. as far as I know, bitcoin isn't considered money, just a digital asset

You know that you don't need any 3rd party service to buy games from Steam anymore, right? Steam announced full Bitcoin acceptance earlier this year.

I can't say that I see any kind of bitcoin acceptance growing in my country. At last not in real services and shops.
Apart of dedicated bitcoin exchanges and couple bitcoin related initiatives there is like zero adoption or knowledge about btc among general population.

Bitcoins in my country is not accepted but i hope that in future our goverment will accept it as legal, it would be very good for bitcoin users in my country.

My goverment already notice bitcoin and they decide to not legalize bitcoin because of it's anonymous.
But still I can use bitcoin and will not getting in jail ! They just remind for bitcoin user to use at their own risk

Which country do you live? Only Bangladesh made bitcoin illegal as far that I know.
In my country it's not illegal, but not many shops accept it.

Yeah that is a major problem with all of us that we are not able to spend it directly and if you are able to convert your bitcoins to  your local currency that means its legal in your country.

In my country, Croatia, we can use Bitcoin freely but, unfortunately, there are no so many places, shops etc. where we can spend Bitcoins.
I mostly spend BTC online.
We just got second BTC ATM in the country but I'm not sure how many people using it, since I don't think that we have much BTC users.
I hope this situation will change soon.

we have a dual situation here. our country has yet not given any statement about bitcoin. so we are confused that either it is legal or illegal. may be the reason is that most of the people still do not know any thing about bitcoin.

most of the country is not currently accept bitcoin as the official currency. as well as my country, there is no regulation that says the validity of bitcoin. bitcoin in my country banned its use. the government felt that bitcoin could hinder the movement of the economy and make it as a threat. it is a thing which I think is unfair to users bitcoin.

That is certainly true, most communities around the world is sure to have that use the bitcoin and they accept it. But it is not yet legally, because all countries are still busy to learn bitcoin deeper. I hope the bitcoin would become legal currency and if that happens then it is certain we will get an incredible bonus

Im from philippines too , in the public store here in philippines does not accepts bitcoins maybe in future they will accept it , but you can buy bitcoins here in philippines in 7/11 store using coins.ph or you can buy online using bitcoins and deliver to your house.

Hello kababayan bitcoin is widely used in our country but the central bank of the phillipines are now tightening and regulating bitcoin  :-[
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-exchanges-regulations-philippines/

I have facilities of buying/selling Bitcoin problem free because fortunately I have couple of registered exchanges to deal with. I didn't see anywhere so far written Bitcoin is accepted here. I am sure if we got exchanges already and couple of ATM are also working which means public awareness level will be up in future.

I live in Serbia and for now bitcoin is not yet recognized in my country. With simple words there is no laws about bitcoin, no regulations, no shops and store's that accept bitcoin. Only one ATM in capitol city, or maybe now two, I'm not sure.
I believe with time situation will change, my country was always a little behind the modern world.
Future will come in every country, and bitcoin is future, blockchain will be global currency without any borders.

In my country, bitcoin isn't legal payment but we can still use it as payment in merchants that accept bitcoin as their payment. People are still unfamiliar with bitcoin so bitcoin isn't commonly used in here. But I'm sure in next few years bitcoin will well spread and more merchants will accept bitcoin as payment.

There are some places where you can spend your coins here, but the places that do accept Bitcoin aren't of real interest to me.

I am more looking for super markets and other stores where I can pay with Bitcoin for my daily needs.

I think it will take long time for that to happen especially in developing countries where bitcoin is not popular yet but things will change in future for sure.

oh thats a pity to be honest, in my opinion bitcoin will be accepted in my country sooner or later though anything might happen i guess

I have not seen any place accepting yet, except on the Internet.

Things do need time, that's right. I have enough patience to wait for it as there is no real hurry in seeing super markets and gas stations accept Bitcoin.

Great benefit of accepting Bitcoin as payment tool is that when it's not being used to pay for things, that it doesn't cost the merchant in question a single penny.

Every store should have Bitcoin as optional payment tool as it may bring in extra revenue after a while.

im from Greece and some shops & service providers accept bitcoin as a payment, but mostly the pioneers!
mostly you will find that on greek islands but lets say it is only the 1% maybe 2% of total bussiness
hopefully the next 1-2 years this percetange should be at 5% ?! maybe
but its something from nothing! ^^

Yes bitcoin is accepted to my country.  But it  is somehow regulated by the third  party site because of their willingness to follow the Money laundering law. It is  where I encash my bitcoin, top up my mobile number and even pay my monthly bills.  The problem is some merchant partner this site refer are from other country.  I hope that someday more stores online that operates locally will accept Bitcoin as their payment.  BTW I am from Philippines as well :D

thankful because your country does not prohibit bitcoin. there are many countries that forbid the use of bitcoin. and of course when they are forced to use bitcoin. they will be in jail

It is the same with my country !!!
It is not legal in my nation but it is not that tight as well. Many people don't know about bitcoins and therefore very less people are into
bitcoins. Nothing much can be done with the bitcoins in our country. I just  use it pay virtual products online.

i think my country yet has not given any statement about bitcoin either it is legal or illegal in my country.

That is an issue in most of the countries that no one knows about bitcoin yet but I am very much sure that will find increase in adoption level in future.

No bitcoin is not yet used in my country also....may be after 5 years they should be started to accept in my country as well
But predicting future can be difficult hope bitcoin be grow more and it start to accept worldwide

Yes bitcoins are accepted here, not in stores but in taxi's and some service stores, i am sad that it is not accepted in stores

We are on the same place dude , i guess we are lucky enough to have some sort of services than other country so we must value it right now , i still also hope that they will always continue to grow

In my country there's not many sites accepting bitcoin. The market is starting to appear for now, so I guess that in a few years we will have a lot of places to spend bitcoin in the country.

Yup we are not able to spend it easily at a moment but the best thing is that we can convert it to our local currency anytime we want which can take care of our spendings.

What do you mean by if bitcoin is accepted in your country? Do you mean to ask if bitcoin is legal or not?I am from India and bitcoin has not been explicitly declared illegal here and some business have started bitcoin but they are few in numbers

It is accepted, but not very popular & used. I have to cross to another COUNTRY to exchange BTC into cash or cash into BTC. This is bad :( I wish Bitcoin was very popular here, because I need it.

Turkish here, as far as I know, there are some restaurants and cafes, tattoo shops and stuff accepting bitcoin as a payment method here in Istanbul also there are some places in Ankara as well, there used to be a Bitcoin ATM at the Atatürk Airport in Istanbul too.

my country not regulate bitcoin but goverment never stop bitcoin
but market placed exchanger local in my country is high volume transactition
legal company and pay tax

Dont worry brother for me this move from central  bank is good because they want to legalized bitcoin as if may not be used for money fraud and being legal gives more opportunity to us , in every country we shoud really have to follow rules so i guess there is nothing wrong in following rules

Only few people know bitcoin here however interest on bitcoin is growing here in Nepal seeing the price pump. However not much people really understand how bitcoin works. Bitcoin is not accepted by any of the small to large merchants over here, just few online earning guys deal with buy and selling bitcoin.

However i am seeing lots of potential for bitcoin based business here in Nepal.

not easy to find a place that accept bitcoin because on basically bitcoin is as a means of payment based online so until whenever it will be hard if we want to use bitcoin in real life no matter you live in any country.

almost no country fully accept bitcoin. the state government is still afraid to use bitcoin as bitcoin has a very unstable movement. they fear their country's economy will be ruined.

I'd say from my experience with government departments is most people wouldn't even have heard of bitcoin. The knowledge gap is very wide here, so most gov officials have little chance to understand how to regulate, that's why there's been no crack-downs, and most likely wont be ... apathy

in our country bitcoin is accepted  by people :) but government is not declared it is neither legal nor illegal, so people are earning on bitcoins, using wallets . but still we need to wait till government makes it completely legal .

Yes.I think  bitcoin is accepted in my country.

I don`t have problems spending or earning bitcoins.

Yes,Steam has a option to pay with bitcoins,but i don`t buy Steam games.

Bitcoin is well accepted here in my country. But, I dont know what goverment says about bitcoin nowadays. One thing for sure, here I can buy and sell bitcoin easily. Some exchangers already use bitcoin and its been more than 3 years. I wish in the future, more and more exchangers and merchants will accept bitcoin.

That could happen mate if the price rate the bitcoin is taking now will continue to prosper, I am very optimistic with bitcoin and I believe in due time this will be a mainstream currency and be accepted by every country. The government can legalize this but we nee to wait for a longer time to make that happen.

My country still not aware of this coin, there still no ATM no store that accept the coin, we have community to help us to exchange to fiat but thats all, government also never mention anything about this coin, so we only can use bitcoin either change it to fiat or purchasing things online

There is really no regulations about bitcoins here just yet, and people are just freely using them.
So far, this has not posed any problems. But if there is any theft involving bitcoins, it is really hard to have it brought to court because just as there's no regulations, there's no support from it either.

Yes accepted but cannot be used much in stores. You will need to exchange it to fiat first which is not really that hard in our country. It is not really a problem and I see many people now are doing the same thing that I do.

In my country. Bitcoin is accepted by other establishment. Actually they have local bitcoin wallet which has many ways to cashout and you can also save it to banks. Bitcoin is popular here in the Philippines so this the future currency in the Philippines. Hopefully many establishments soon to accept bitcoin as payment.

my country not supported about bitcoin not develop infastructure about bitcoin
but also does not prohibit its presence bitcoin

not yet. only a few online shops accept bitcoin here. many people have already known about bitcoin, but not all of them are interested in it.

some people also don't agree about bitcoin as currency. some countries have their own problem about this thing.

In our country there are no declaration proclaiming that the use of bitcoin is legal or illegal but we use it.
Also stores do not accept bitcoins not because they don't believe in bitcoins but its because was not known by many. It is a topic only known to selected few.

No !! there is not a single store in my country who accept bitcoin as a currency or as a direct payment. I hope it would happen that bitcoin is accepted as a direct payment not in all stores but in some stores.

In my country too the same. There are not many stores that accept bitcoin. Possibly in future this will change because from my country more and more users were getting involved into bitcoin gradually. Also government doesn't focus much on bitcoin as it haven't made any impact on country's economy.

a lack of stores will make bitcoin difficult to grow and be accepted by country. then start from ourselves. create a shops selling goods in accordance with our abilities. it would be helpful to develop a bitcoin in our country. well as disseminate information about bitcoin disseminated to the wider community in our region.

No right now bitcoin is not accpeted in my country and i think its gonna take more and more time for that to happen.Not only my country but in most countries right now bitcoin is not yet accepted in common shops or malls.

Well, I think the country is still very difficult to accept bitcoin as some people use it for illegal transactions. My country is currently not received bitcoin, but I think many people are using it, but it is very difficult to find a place where you can exchange bitcoin that you have, with something being sold in my country.

I think we all are from same country and facing the same problem, as there is no store that accepts bitcoin and even Government is not showing any interest in it.

The rule just applies to an offline store I never think about the online store, there are a lot of online it's can use that with bitcoin. but this is not any important for the government to making interest in it.

there is the same situation in my coountry, even though it is legal to use bitcoins in my country unfortunately there is no places where could i spend it right now

It is the same in my country. there is not even a single store in my country where bitcoin can be used. There is no laws for bitcoins !!! It is currently neutral and I hope for it to have green signal which may encourage the businessmen to start using bitcoins !!!

The same condition in my country, I don't know whether at least 2% people in my country know about bitcoin, it would be great if bitcoin becomes popular and accepted in local stores, when it happens time only has to decide.

Yes! bitcoin is accepted in my country. but I think there is no  law about regulating it for  now.  So we are free to do things with bitcoin.  But alas some sites need your identity if you are to use their service.  But well i think it can be fake, so I don;t think that matters.

unfortunately that is the same for me, to be honest, the price is going to grow a lot in the future, then we might see more people accepting bitcoins in my country

It's beeing accepted very slowly. There are not so many people who use it and it's hard to find the store tat accepts it. But some Bitcoin ATMs are appearing, which is good, and Bitcoin meetings are organized to promote it. But banks are not very happy with it, some of them would be happiest it Bitcoin was forbbiden.

to be honest not really, i can buy a coffee as far as i know..... but it should pick up in the future

Here there are not many shops which accept bitcoin, so i try to hold my coins or sometimes go online to shop with my bitcoins.
I do see it happening local shops will accept bitcoin, like it happened in brasil. That would be the best, having your wallet and buy stuff with your mobile wallet.

Here is it progressing slow, too slow if you ask me. We got some shops whon accept bitcoin but overal it's like we have to wait too long.
What is strange, because accepting bitcoin means more customers.. win win!

I live in Serbia now and do not heard that there is something that accepting bitcoin here. And when I'm trying to talk about it with someone, about bitcoin, people look very skeptic. So I conclude that bitcoin is not known here at all.

In my country there are really no shops that accept bitcoin. Only online which says enough. Bitcoin by users is something which is growing, and even online shops seem to understand it. But local shops are not aware at all about bitcoin and how they can benefit from it. I hope someday the bitcoin team will hire a marketing team to take care of this.

i live in Georgia and and there are no way to spend bitcoins, only withdraw it with a fiat. no shops or businesses are accepted bitcoins. i have several idea to motivate more people to use and hope soon more people will be interested in cryptocurrency

it is accepted and i use bitcoins really often to be honest

I live in Lithuania and there are some places where bitcoin accepted, but mostly of it in capital city. There are some restaurants which accepts bitcoin, few taxi companies accepts bitcoins. Also it's possible to pay with bitcoin for some flight tickets. And also heard that one barbershop accepts bitcoins.

only for online merchant, but im not seen yet for offline use

You are the lucky one, in my country i can't even try to use my bitcoins because it's illegal here, maybe in future our goverment will change their mind >:(

Well, I can say that bitcoin in my country are not fully legal. Central bank says bitcoin is not a currency and recommend to stay away from it.

Im from Philippines also and yes its the same as we accept and adopt bitcoin here in the Philippines. And many Filipino now use bitcoin to earn some extra cash online. But not all country really accept bitcoin there some country still strict using that bitcoin .

There are not many places around here to use it.
In the future things must change, the use grows every day.

I don't exactly know if my government is active in bitcoin but I easily can exchange my coins at a local site which is an automated process.

Maybe the central bank just worried if bitcoin will accepted in your country . Worried about if people loose the trust to use bank. But actually it will not be a problem if their work with each other.

same here, we use the same services on buying mobile loads and steam wallet credits. This things does give more convenience to us rather than on going on stores physically.
I hope someday many merchants would do accept bitcoin as a payment like buying on malls paying it with bitcoins.

the same as me, I come from Indonesia and are rarely offline store that receives bitcoin. And most stores that receives is onlineshop. But lucky for me bitcoin here has begun known by many people, and there are no restrictions from the government about the use of bitcoin

In my country there are few hotels accepting bitcoin as their mode of payment and i am hoping for the near future even stores will be accepting bitcoin for their business and some more.

That is good at least they are starting to accept, that is a sign that bitcoin is starting to be getting recognize in every part of the world. I believe if one will be educated with bitcoin, they can easily adopt with it and will be thankful that he can experience using it in online transactions.

Yep, we do have this online wallet, coins.ph. You could convert your bitcoins into fiat and withdraw it via an atm. And also, there's a convenience store found on most places in the city where they really do accept bitcoins as a payment.

coins.ph it's for the phillipines only you can see the domain that ends with ph? ph = philippines where philippines can access only or where philippines can use that wallet i use coins.ph too im also from philippines i use this to pay my online billings monthly bills i use this also to shop or to buy foods online coins.ph now is incredible  8)

Yes here in philippines bitcoin accepted in monthly billing and to SSS. Some online shopping accept bitcoin. Thats why bitcoin is very easy to use even when go out and your personal wallet left in your home but your brought your cellphone that has application in bitcoin wallet is not empty. You can cash out it instant in any security bank atm.

yes bitcoins here in philippines is famous many of us using bitcoin now we earn bitcoin for free we don't need to invest :) nor buy bitcoins to start a business we also use bitcoins or coins.ph to pay our monthly bills or do some shopping some hotel here in philippines are now accepting bitcoin and some shop also :)

India has banned BTC trade but still I find users trading ad buying BTC and indian web stores accepting BTC as payment.
Not far until e-commerce giants allow BTC as paying option. Would really look forward to it.

As of now in our country which is Philippines is already accepted bitcoin as mode of payment that is why we can say bitcoin services or coins.ph (our wallet) is really great and we are hoping this will be last long because it is very convenient to use and to transact by paying our monthly bills, top up our mobile and sending money to our family.

Bitcoin for my country is still in a state of white and gray, the government does not prohibit the use of bitcoin on the other hand the government also does not legalize bitcoin. But certainly the people of my country many use bitcoin. Moreover, my country already has exchanger that serves the sale bitcoin with currency of my country.

My government is not much bother about bitcoin till date. Most of the officials don't know about its existence. Hence I am not facing a problem as of now. But I have declared my income which I had cashed out through out the year in my tax declaration form. So I guess I wll not have to face any issue with that.

I heard Japan and Canada is planning to make bitcoin legal. It will be a good step.

Lithuania is a country sir? I havent heard that certain country yet,  but i guess youre place have a good relationship with bitcoin than ours, i mean bitcoin is more widely used i guess in your place than ours

I live on a small Island and because one company here made a bitcoin debit card bit ripped everyone off, people are wary of it so I haven't seen any shops here take bitcoin at all. I know the University of Nikosia takes it for student fees. It was the first university to ever accept bitcoin in the world I think but among the lay people, no one barley uses it. I am for sure the minority here.

I dont think so sir if the university in your place was the first one,  we also have 5  universities here in our country that accept bitcoin i think since then but yeah this kind of service makes me love bitcoin

Wow! Universities accepting bitcoin as a tuition fee? That's kind of new to me. May I ask where is that? For I may research some and maybe share it with others.

Yes that thing is possible and i have heard that universities accepts bitcoin on paying tuition fees. Ive heard its in philippines an application they use, i know because i have a friend here online from philippines and saying its possible to pay its tuition fees at university on where he study. Thats a very good innovation of bitcoin to offer such service would give convenience to anyone.

In my country, bitcoin can cannot be used to buy anything. Even the government does not recognize bitcoin. But there are people who normally exchange and nobody prevents them. They normally use bitcoin in online purchases only and also exchanging with the local currency.

in my country, bitcoin was accepted but only few community used it, and although our government bank gives statement about bitcoin that any happen of risk when you use bitcoin, is your responsibility, people in my community was continue to using bitcoin. for online payment, i think not much merchant joined to use bitcoin. but i hope for next year, the merchant will get growth and many of merchant will join and integrate with bitcoin.

Yes it is but im hoping for more store will accept bitcoin as part of their mode of payment because as of now hotels and some online shop and few store are only accepting bitcoin. It is good because bitcoin now has a great value that is why i feel i have a discount every transactions.

just like my country. bicoin not banned in the country. but still very few people using bitcoin so you can know that hardly any merchants that accept bitcoin as a payment method.
I hope the deployment of bitcoin could get to my country quickly

It is good to know that there are already a lot of places in the world that recognizes bitcoin and accepts it as form of payment. We, as bitcoin owners, must continue to help make bitcoin more widely accepted, not just online but also in our local shops, groceries and malls. It would be nice to live in a world where every transaction is as simple as sending of bitcoin away.

actually the problem is that here in our country people have no much knowledge about bitcoin. therefore we have very little opportunities to use bitcoin  because most of the shop keeper do not accept bitcoin.

Whether or not bitcoin is accepted in my country, I don't really mind that much. The important thing for me is the fact that I use it at the moment according to what I want to use it - if my country will it or not, doesn't really matter at all for me.

I play online casino and do some trading and exchanges with bitcoin and doge and that's the only thing I use with my bitcoin.

Most of the users are facing the same problem of not able to spend it at any local places, as majority of countries are not into bitcoin yet, and it will take long time to happen.

No in my country Bitcoin is illegal currency. The biggest problem in my homeland still Bitcoin not become famous. Yes, educated people also don't know what Bitcoin is. Surrounding my friends circle no one knows what Bitcoin is. I am teaching everyone now. And we have only less sites that they can convert Bitcoin to local currency. Except that, we don't have any source to use our Bitcoin.

Yes someway to use bitcoin is our freedom. But if there are countries prohibit bitcoin and has no legislation governing it is better not to use bitcoin. because as citizens we should not obey the rules, otherwise we could be prosecuted. But in my country bitcoin is still in a state of uncertain between illegal or legal.

As far as my knowledge goes, there are no regulations against bitcoin and its use in the country, so yes, it is accepted here. The thing is, there are only a few shops and merchants which fully integrates it in their payment system.  You can use some debit cards which can be loaded up with bitcoin and make your purchase if the store accepts Visa and Mastercard for payments (since debit cards such as Xapo use Visa for integration), but for direct bitcoin-to-goods purchase, there are only few shops (mostly coffee shops and tech stores) that can cater to such a service.

Lithuania is small country in Eastern Europe with population of 3 million people. But our bitcoin community is small.

Yes their is you can try to register at coins.ph and you will be able to see their service in my place within the country i know one unversity that accepts bitcoin as tuition fee

Here in America, some merchants do accept bitcoin but i think it is only in a few cities. It is still catching on for the general public. I think it will be more of an online payment method for a few years until more people get smartphones.

Mostly countries does't accept bitcoin because it is still new and there are not many people who use it for payment method, and there are some countries who ban it because be used illegal activity.

yeah same here in nepal but government have yet not allowed people to use bitcoins for any business activities but for personal use we can ! so in future after it becomes more popular then i think it will be good to go !

I agree to that, some countries doesnt accept bitcoin as a payment specially on third world countries and they havent heard about bitcoin at all. There are some countries banned bitcoin as you said because its used in illegal activities but i believe bitcoin is useful in many ways i guess.

Not all countries have banned bitcoin, but yes it would be really good to see if we find places to spend it, and  once it is done it will create awareness level among people who don't know bitcoin.

you're wrong, the fact is most of third world countries accepting it and growing up day by day,their local fiat really sucks so they move on,it's better choice than holding and suffering because of their sucked local currency

In our country accepted in billing payments that is only for now because bitcoin here is they are planning or develops to use bitcoin in shopping mall . I think in next year bitcoin can used it to buy anything what you want but now you must cash it first you can anything.

may all be better than it is now. bitcoin evolved from a small shopping. and then grow into large financial transactions. the recognition of the bitcoin by a country will be able to make a much larger bitcoin.

I am sure a lot of adoption will be coming from different countries. Specially when their establishments or stores are out in the mall. People will see this once it got popular and I hope business owners will also get the hang of it.

i think if government official support bitcoin platform integrated with the central bank transfer ,payment and trading this will increase the adaptation more in every country

If there are more merchants who will start bitcoin as a mode of payment then I think it will create eagerness among people to know what bitcoin exactly is.

in my country biotcoin is like normal currency, No special regulation, no warning for use it, but not more people accept it bitcoin is not popular, but the merchand growing to much in last 3year, now i can pay electric cost with bitcoin, top up game with bitcoin , also i can top up my mobile phone .

Normal currency have regulations and have warnings for using them. Well, at least banks do have limits on using money.
Bitcoin is only still considered a 'virtual' currency that poses no threat to the physical world, but our governments are already taking actions on how to properly implement it here.

Our central bank here is kind of stopping any bitcoin mass media attention currently because they are thinking of ways to properly publicize it. They are not stopping it, in fact they are preparing to officially fully accept bitcoins as one of the currencies as per many reliable spying resources.

I guess in my country accept bitcoin, but it is very difficult to find a place where you can spend a bitcoin what you have. in my place, is not prohibited for use bitcoin, because no mention was illegal, but I think very few people know about bitcoin in this place. but there are some places that you can visit to talk about bitcoin, but unfortunately it was not in the area where I live, you have to cross the island to find them, so I only communicate through social media. but, I think it very easy to find online stores that accept bitcoin coming from this country

in my country bitcoin is still illegal, but I am free to use bitcoin. because I use for online transactions, and bitcoin has no physical form, so it is safe even though it is illegal.

very honestly although bitcoin is not banned in my country. but the problem is that here people have no knowledge about bitcoin they do not know any thing about bitcoin. and that is the reason that bitcoin is not accepted in our country.

Sorry for my mistake, good to  hear that even third world countries does offer and accept bitcoin as payments thats a good news bro. If this would develop worldwide then bitcoin would be very useful in buying stuffs even in physical stores that would give us more convenience in our daily lives. Well lets see how bitcoin would develop more in future.

This time my country has not received the bitcoin as a currency guaranteed. however many people are using. It's a matter of regulation that can make bitcoin fully accepted. who became frightened many people that bitcoin is still not guaranteed.

100 percent yes here in philippines i use bitcoin to shop online because coins.ph now is a big company that link into many banks accounts and some store like amazon now i can also pay my monthly bills my water bill , electrity bill i'd say bitcoin now is famous here in my country because some of my country men use bitcoin to support their daily expenses :)

Bitcoin is allowed in my country and people are free to use it. But for my country bitcoin transactions are still very few who use bitcoin. In my country, especially in the area where I live I know that using bitcoin payments are rental cars and mini market. The rest I have not found bitcoin payments directly.

Nope, not yet here in Pakistan. But now lots of people are using it so maybe soon the companies will start using them too and finally the banks as well.

We have an exchanges were we can sell our bitcoins into our local currency, but it is not completely accepted by the store owners but internally many people are exchanging through exchanges only.BTC

Our country doesn't have official acceptance or opposition, right now government have not given much consideration to it as it have not made much impact on our country economy.

Which is a good thing in my opinion, because it allows for us to get a majority of our Bitcoin now, relatively free and mostly untaxed. Once the government steps in and starts to do things, then it'll be hardest to earn Bitcoin and a lot of things like signature campaigns might not be able to exist in the same capacity that they do now. I think we have one of the free-est Bitcoin economies right now, and I hope it stays this way, but it likely won't in the future. I guess things could happen, but I'd rather not have to wait and fine out.

Not many people accepting bitcoin here. The most popular job that I see accepting bitcoin are buskers. Bitcoin really isn't made to purchase things IRL. I don't want to sit around waiting 10-30 minutes for a confirmation on a coffee that takes 1-3 minutes.

Yes here in my country you can spend in terms of bitcoin, coins.ph is big company here in philippines and it has more services to offer and more bank already tag in, and also some big hotels now accepting bitcoin as part of their mode of payment.

Well, the confirmation always becomes a problem for a lot of people, but you're right bitcoin it's not suitable to apply to the real life if they still having a trouble with the confirmation.

I also live in the Philippines, and using same exchange that you are using, but, I haven't tried using coins.ph to buy something online, specially if I have to make a bank transfer, the transfer is too slow, which might take more than 24 hours, that's a little off.. You can't buy on online shops instantly, except if you know online shops that directly accepts bitcoin..

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Very few of the people in India know about BitCoin. Especially the people who are illiterate know nothing about it. Think this is why the popularity of BTC is low in India.

None of the local shops accept BTC

However Online retailers and Online E-Commerce markets are accepting BTC and we hope it becomes popular very soon.

I think it does not need too pushy for your country doing legalization bitcoin while you still can convert bitcoin into local currency. and you have the ease to convert and use it. I think the legalization of bitcoin is no longer in need anymore

Me, I would not dream that bitcoin will be legalized as it is hard to push that way, anyways, I am already contented with the current state of bitcoins, the price is beautiful and it could already attract users to use bitcoins without any limitation.

What you are telling is a very long back story, i am also from india, and i have seen the growth of bitcoin users are more than 25% in india, and why illiterate but even lliterate persons are also not knowing about bitcoin and even after knowing it they are not accepting it as it is still no accepted by Indian Government.

But their are exchanges where you can buy and sell bitcoins and their are so many local users who are buying and selling bitcoins for local fiat currency. So i think India is also getting popular in using bitcoins but if the government gives some more clear details about using bitcoin then their will be very fast growth in the bitcoin users in India.

In Australia, bitcoin is slowly becoming popular with more and more shops accepting it. Although bitcoin is mostly used in online transactions espectially on steam where you have Opskins and Bitskins and people buying games/skins of people for bitcoin. Not much places accept bitcoin in real life, but bitcoin has become widely know in the virtual world.

For small payments local stores don't make a problem of giving you your ordered products/drinks without any confirmations. They mostly use BitPay to handle all their Bitcoin related payments. BitPay analizes your payment and from there it calculates the risk of you double spending your coins. If you includede a normal market fee, then they will accept it without any confirmations. If you add a very low fee, or no fee at all, then it will require you to get at least 1 confirmation.

In my country "Yes"
bitcoin is accepted currency. there is not any law for bitcoin in my country. so everyone can use it and trade it by behalf of himself. I know lots of people who using bitcoin online.

I can use bitcoin to buy sell, to pay my bill, to top up my mobile phone. and I can save bitcoin and do anything I want. I think these are enough benefits someone could need or hope for bitcoin.

lots of country like Bangladesh and other have Banned Bitcoin officially and everyone caught using bitcoin will get in jail.

My country not accepted bitcoin as a currency.Our country bitcoin foundation chairman are working on it.he is trying to contract our government hope near future bitcoin will accepted in our country.Now from my country very hard to use bitcoin we could not find any reliable source where we can buy or sell our bitcoin which we earn from online outsourcing.

I hope your country can begin to adopt bitcoin. better buy bitcoin on the international market that are available today for example with yobit.net, with dollar deposits into your yobit account you can already buy bitcoin easily. I hope this helps.

Yeah same here. We can use bitcoins to buy online products here in the Philippines. But I can not say that bitcoins are generally accepted here in our country since I can not use bitcoins in buying my groceries, payment in coffee shops and buying things that I want in personal. But the use of bitcoins here are not forbidden it is just that it is not that popular yet here in our country that is why establishments are  not yet accepting them as mode of of payments. I hope sooner or later, they will.

no law means not being legalized as a currency,it's still between illegal and legal,although they'll soon regulating it when someting big happenning relating to bitcoin in your country,but you can't say it was accepted as a currency

Yes bitcoin accepted here in philippines but not in all it accept it only in billing like electricity, water bill, and the member of SSS they can pay in bitcoin but in shopping online or shopping mall they dont accept bitcoin for payment you need to incash it before you buy something what you want.

Bitcoin accepted in my country and I am free to use. But for the bitcoin still a few people know so very rarely also use bitcoin as a payment method. My area is very difficult to use bitcoin for direct payments, if you want to use it must first change to the new currency is used.

if you talking about the legality of bitcoin. then our country has no statement about bitcoin either bitcoin is legal or illegal in our country. but if we talk about the bitcoin user so here as most of the people have no knowledge about bitcoin so they do not accept bitcoin in their shops or business.

Why is bitcoin illegal in your country dude? , i just hope that you can't make a mistake and will be punished by law. What certain country are you dude? because it makes me curious :D

I'm also curious in what country does not live and why Bitcoin Is illegal. Maybe it's prohibited because their government are afraid to use it on illegal transactions. Just my opinion, correct me if I'm wrong. Here in my country it's okay to use Bitcoin and do have also serviced like loading up your mobile phone using Bitcoin and also loading you game credits ex. Steam.

Illegal in my country :D
More info here --> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=396189

But, I'm not worried. Strict rules are made but never implemented where I live :)

More here: http://blog.rigotechnology.com/2015/11/17/bitcoin-the-digital-currency-in-nepal/  =)

well in our country i have heard that as we all know bitcoin is being used in gambling and it is really prohibited  that is why the central banks are really up to it to make rules and implementation to make it legalized and will not be used in money fraud

Why all countries will not accept The Bitcoin is legal means. The government will not get any profit from this Bitcoin transaction. That is why all most of all country will not accept Bitcoin as a legal currency.

It might just happen, but I think the Government can benefit from the interesting way the bitcoin, tax each month to all those who have a bitcoin. But this is probably going to make some people's objections and possibly deceitful in order not to be taxable. If it is not used for reasons of bitcoin, then in the future position of the bitcoin currency will be replaced by a more sophisticated digital and benefit all countries

well i guess that governments might not like it and they just ban it in order to avoid people using it and making bitcoins even more popular though thats just my guess

in my country bitcion is not accepted in banks, GPO and other under government department. but it does not mean that bitcoin is banned or illegal in our country. actually here the government has not yet given any statement about bitcoin. and people have no knowledge about bitcoin therefore very little use of bitcoin is practicing here, hope in future situation will little different.

Nope, i don't eve know country where bitcoin is accepted currency, but i know many countires where is bitcoin is banned and illegal.

So mean where lucky here in the Philippines we can buy bitcoin trough bank acount and also widraw bitcoin to bank remitance and many more  but need to change to Fiat first before widraw it and we can also buy bitcoin via 7/11 stores :)

In our country it is accepted since there was no declaration that is is not legal, so maybe it is legal, haha. Well I dont know what countries wherein bitcoin is being banned. But i know what countries are using bitcoin and it is legal, a good example will be two countries in Asia. The first is the country with the highest number of mining hashpower is located, its China. Second, the country that is going to follow the footsteps of China and may overcome it, its Japan.

I do believe bitcoin isnt yet accepted at any country, people are trying to regulate it at USA and China i believe, if one of them do that others would follow, for now i dont see any country willing to take the first step into crypto world.

I think bitcoin is acccepted in my country because there is no rules about bitcoin here and in my country only some people know about bitcoin, so the government here not notice the bitcoin.

To legally indeed bitcoin has not used all over the world as the official currency, but for illegal I believe that your country there which accepts payments using bitcoin. The intent of the illegal is not getting a definite Law reserved the money used (Bitcoin), so if they are having problems with bitcoin then the Government is not responsible

Im living in a country where bitcoin is not illegal but not widely accepted. not all people knows bitcoin because of lack of knowledge about it and some dont have internet connection. no stores yet are accepting bitcoin as payment. however, our local wallet has a feature wherein you can pay your bills and other staff through it so its more convenient somehow.

it is a fortune. Your country is beginning to acknowledge bitcoin. and if bitcoin already acknowledged it will be very easy to find stores that accept bitcoin. I was not as fortunate as you.

its good for you, in my country there are no regulations too, but there are some that have dumb laws about bitcoins where it is completely banned like russia

At present time, you can get away with bitcoin regulations in your country - if there are. One of the example given here is the banning in Russia but I there are many players in Russian dedicated chatrooms in online casinos I play with. Hence, even if it is really true that Russian Government banned bitcoin, people can still get away with it.

Bitcoin is accepted in my country by many private organizations and not by the government agencies.
Currently our government haven't said a thing about bitcoins and I hope if they say anything, that should be a good one and in favor of bitcoin users.

Mine too, our central bank says it's not illegal but be very cautious and wary when using or dealing with it. What I like here is there's a service that integrates BTCBTCBTC with seemingly everything you've got to deal with money. Bills, remittances, collecting payments etc. So yeah, it's basically accepted here.

I'm from India and as per my knowledge we have some services which allow us to trade bitcoins. Although one bitcoin service had little bit struggle with our central bank now everything seems fine. I am studying corporate laws and I have seen a conclusion from expert that right now bitcoin is not illegal and it’s not even a currency.

That means bitcoin is not yet recognized by my country’s government. If we have to consider possibilities then I can say, current government is pro development and might not ban bitcoin but promote it with some sort of restrictions. Digital wallet is becoming hot topic and it might be advantage for bitcoin.

my country my goverment is not supported and regulated bitcoin
but does not prohibit, and does not stop all about bitcoin, the government strongly supports technology-based industry creatif

It's probably a better thing if your government hasn't said anything about Bitcoin, most of the time they rule against those and make laws that are relatively unfavourable and proceed to wreck a lot of the Bitcoin economy in their country. The longer the government goes without saying anything about Bitcoin the better.

bitcoin is not accepted in my country though it is not banned either, i hope that more shops will be accepting it in the future

So only Cash is accepted on Algeria? This is really not good. OP I'm not sure if bitcoin is accepted in my country because I haven't seen if it is legal or illegal but until now I haven't seen any bitcoin logo on any store.

i can say it is just the beggening in my country. rbi has granted it so people can do start to know what it is but thats already so late and still they think this is an scam or fraud scheam. poor they are hope they will get sufficiant understanding before its too late

There is almost nothing that you can buy with Bitcoin in my country which is a real let down.
I hope that this is going to change anytime soon in the future.

Yes of course here in my country there are many hotels and online stores accepting bitcoin even in booking of flights and paying bills also they accept bitcoin and i am hoping that bitcoin will be leave longer like fiat.

Im from the Philippines too. Here in our country, it is legal and accepted in our country. But few establishments or companies are accepting cryptocurrencies. Since bitcoin is starting to be popular, hopefuly many establishment or companies are going to accept bitcoin in the future. Im having a hard time finding a place which i can spend bitcoin.

I'm also a Filipino like you. Bitcoins to our country is not that accepted yet, only few businesses accepted bitcoins and we have only one merchant so far who accepted it which is coins.ph, And some are using bitcoins to our country for their own interest. Just like what they create in onecoin, and bitclub. They deceived many Filipinos about bitcoin, they collected money to them. And others they attach it to MLM etc. but all of it are Filipino deceiver. I'm just stating the fact.

Mostly, we use coins.ph as a main way to cash it out coz it is easier to use it when it is fiat, and coins.ph is now accepting payments for amazon orders...That's a good move, and most probably soon, they will be accepting payments for other online stores..  :) Can't wait to see that...

I'm waiting also for that service would be offered soon in coins.ph, it would be very great and useful to many users of that site and it would give you convenience in purchasing online goods thru online stores out there. We'll let's wait for its development and sure many people would love it.

No regulations does not mean bitcoin is accepted.
Not giving a shit about bitcoin is not accepting it since it can always change at any time. Also, I have heard that Russia has lifted the ban on bitcoins payment system months ago. Or is that just a hoax by any chances?

Yeah right, like in my country bitcoin is still in a state of gray in other words there is still no regulations governing bitcoin. But until now I have never met anyone who hates bitcoin here. So I think this condition is good because our government is too focused with bitcoin :)

It can also be used to pay for Utilities, Telecom, Cable, Life Insurance, Credit Card and even Tuition Fees.(Select companies/schools) Even Metrodeal and Cashcashpinoy accepts bitcoin now. And you can also pay your SSS contributions too.
Utilities:    Manila Water, Maynilad, Davao Light, Veco
Telecom:   Globe, Smart, Sun, PLDT, Bayan
Credit Card:   Metrobank, PNB, Security Bank, RCBC Bankard, UnionBank
Cable:      SkyCable, Wi-Tribe, Cignal
Life Insurance:   SunLifeFinancial, PhiLAmLife, PruLifeUK, AXA
Tuition:      ADMU, La Salle Greenhills, Miriam College
Government:   SSS
Online Shopping:  Metrodeal, Cashcashpinoy, etc.

yeah, it is not banned in my country either, to be honest around me there are some shops that accept bitcoin payments though there only few of them unfortunately

Here in the country we accept bitcoin elite but actually not all accept bitcoin . With billings only accept bitcoin here . But the shopping mall would not receive hope this year because they have a project they want to use bitcoin shopping mall . So I wait for the day they would have approved the project that our government .

That would happen in the future mate, we need to spread the good news in your country so people will be aware that this is a a thing called bitcoin that would help them to have their investment and could be use with online transaction with a minimal fees.

in my country there are people who are using bitcoin in trading and faucet claims to invest in bitcoin but bitcoin is unfortunately is not accepted as a payment in shops .

Nope but some people here accept it when we trade,  Well I can just convert my bitcoins to flat

In here, it's more appropriate that it's not being minded, rather than either accepted or not accepted.
People here just does not seem to care just yet but I have heard that our government is actually having plans of properly introducing them to the public to make sure any possible adoption for central banks. So, I am very much positive for good progress in upcoming days.

but in my country there are very few places in all over the country where bitcoin is accepted for buying good, other wise most of the area people even not hear the name of bitcoin, they have no idea that what is bitcoin and how to use it, although the government has not banned it and not yet given any other statement about bitcoin but the problem is that the people have very little knowledge about it. therefore in most of the area bitcoin is not accepted.

I am from Singapore and I know that my government do not really interfere with Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies. I've watched a talk related to Bitcoin in the TV. I've also read several news articles related to Bitcoin in the local newspaper. There is also a few big Bitcoin forex company based in my country.

Sadly, I've never meet anyone that use Bitcoin in real life before - or as far as I am aware.

Well we really dont know the real reason behind this issue but i know fore sure bitcoin will going to surpass this challenge on its identity because as i  have known it is growing so fast

yes many countries, just sitting and not doing any action. You're lucky to stay in singapore. there are still many countries that make regulations to inhibit the development of bitcoin.

That's sad. Here one major BTCBTCBTC service practically connects everything you need with regards to finance. Bills, phone credits, bank account deposits, and everything you can possibly purchase online. The one thing that lacks really is a local BTCBTCBTC powered debit card.

A few online shops accept the bitcoin in my country. I have bought some graphics cards to mine Ethereum.

you mean like accepting fiat? because if you trade your bitcoins then it is just an ordinary fiat in my opinion, bitcoin is not accepted in my country and it is a big problem

In my country as well. We do not any option to use BTC in my country. I can exchange it to fiat and use it for my expense. I see people say, anything can be purchased online using btc. I am waiting to do online purchase once i have btc. I am waiting for the btc to come to my wallet.

As a bitcoin user seeing your country not supporting bitcoin is really a big problem dude, that is why i feel so lucky because some merchant is trying to introduce bitcoin in our place

Good for you since some merchants do accept bitcoin as payment in your country. that would be very great and  it gives you convenience even more. Hopefully bitcoin payments and  more merchants would allow to accept bitcoin as payment in the future. As of now i exchange my bitcoin to fiat to buy my wants  because its still not available here in my country.

I am also part of that lucky country who has some merchants that accepts bitcoin as one of their primary payment for their products. I also suggested in one of the growing service application which is a virtual visa card that allows us to shop using bitco in their service and i was lucky for the good feedback they have given as qoute "Yup we surely are going to consider bitcoin in our service in the near future"

I don't think so that it is a really big problem. People in the country that doesn't support bitcoins are not that used to in transacting bitcoin in the first place. But if that country will accept bitcoins, then it will be an added bonus for its constituents.

In my case, I only use bitcoin in gambling, trading, and exhange online - thus, whether or not my country would accept bitcoin, it doesn't really matters to me.

Not officially but yes, I can use Bitcoin in my country.
Unfortunately, only a few merchants accept Bitcoin and we have only 2 BTC ATM until now but I hope it will change soon.
Because of such situation, I mostly keep BTC in my wallet and waiting that Bitcoin becomes more popular and supported here.
It's good that we have good and professional exchange service and can easily exchange Bitcoin to local currency, and receive money directly to bank account. 

As far as I know, there are only quite a few countries that have officially banned bitcoin. To other countries, they either accept bitcoin or just see it as a virtual item or a form of stock that people can invest in.
In where I live, bitcoin is somewhat accepted since there are already a few companies that accepts bitcoin as payment.

The only country I know that banned bitcoin is: Bangladesh

The country that are fighting against bitcoin to preserve their markets are:
China and Russia

The rest of the world is 'ok' with bitcoin.

but in my country there are few areas where the shopkeepers accept bitcoin for shopping, but in most of the area people do not accept bitcoin, the reason is that in my country people have very little knowledge about bitcoin. mostly the shopkeeper have no idea about bitcoin therefore they are not accepting it, on other side the government also do not show any interest in bitcoin, they not yet legalize bitcoin not yet turn it illegal, but now the users of bitcoin are increasing hope that in future most of the people will get benefit from bitcoin.

Yeah, in Philippines (which I live). Only few shops are accepting bitcoin as payment. Since it is included in the Third World country, the people do not have that knowledge about this kind of currency and not all stores here are using automated mode of payment since they are not familiar to it. The government neither support nor permits the use of bitcoin here. They just let us do what we want. I hope they will construct a law that it may be accepted in malls or etc.. But, it is too early to assump. Since bitcoin users are wide-spread. Maybe in the future, bitcoin will be legalized here in the philippines. Come to think of it, Bitcoin is a lot more helpful to be legalized than marijuana right ? Hahah :D Just some humor assumptions. Cheers ! :p

In my country, I'm also in the same situation. I can only use it online or if I need to buy prepaid load from someone.
I especially hate it when someone doesn't offer my carrier's credits (e.g. Globe only)

Other than that, I'm not aware of any local usage of Bitcoin.

You got a point, legalizing Bitcoin In Philippines would be great and it would also be very useful to those Filipino who earn Bitcoin online. It would be very useful and gives more convenience on purchasing something either online or on physical. It's too far better than legalizing marijuana instead. Well let's wait what would be the future on Bitcoin in every country.

well i guess it is better than to those country that consider bitcoin as illegal atleast we still have the chance to improve bitcoin service in our place. All we have to do is to protect bitcoin and use it properly so that they will start to consider this one

hahaha just seeing a lot of people in here just using bitcoin or investment and never using that for online shops and I know for using to buying online shops just applied for global shops and they're will think again about the tax they can getting for buying goods in foreign.

bitcoin in my country still not accepted by the government
I dont know, why they not accept it. I think bitcoin is solution to change payment system.

Really a solution... Its price get fluctuated...Sometime high sometime low..?
But i think government should accept to use BTC, it is also a currency 

bitcoin is not acceptable in my country we can just use it for online shopping and sometime i convert my bitcoin to fiat for direct shopping.

but we have a big problem related to that issue,although our government has not given any statement about bitcoin but the problem is that in my country there is a very little awareness about bitcoin, people have even no idea that what is bitcoin, therefore they are not accepting bitcoin in their shops although there are some people who are using and investing their money in bitcoin but still there not a sing shopkeeper who have any idea about bitcoin.

Like in my country bu in here the tax for abroad goods is very high, and maybe if you buying goods with $100 in the foreign site and after the goods till your regions and you will pay $100 again for your tax fee and anytime can more than $100 just for tax.

pray to that , miracle happens anyone can predict what if one day that you wake up and then bitcoin now is famous in your country :) if that happens they everyone in pakistan would be happy but if not, why just you create a website or company that can pakistan people can use where they can holds their bitcoins and exchange it into fiat :) like what i use too coins.ph

It is same in my country also. Bitcoins are not accepted directly by any online merchants to buy any items, but it is quite easy to convert my BTC to fiat currency and use it for my regular purchases. But this process will take some % of fee to convert currency, and I don't really like that portion.

Everyone has some sort of tax for their services, and in this instance it's a percentage fee or whatever your trading in order for the owner to make money and also cover their own costs.

I personally don't mind the fees as long as they're relatively small and don't go in excess of 1.5%, and preferably under 1%. If it goes in excess of that, unless I really need the money or it is a more complex exchange (i.e. mixer included), chances are I'll skip on it.

Bitcoin services has no fee included in every transaction but if you exchange it into fiat that is using other services that is why there is charge in your transaction, for me in my country there are few online stores, hotels, resorts and booking flights who accepts bitcoin as form of payment and if i used bitcoin directly to them i do not charge any transaction i made.

Same as the others, I can only use it online when buying load etc. and I don't know any shops that accepts bitcoin as a payment. What I'm always doing is just converting my biitcoins to flat however unlike bitcoin who doesn't have any transaction fee, converting bitcoin to flat do have so It would be really helpful if some shops accepts bitcoin as a payment

We have the same problem here. Or perhaps we live in the same country?
I'm guessing one out of 500 people know about bitcoins in here since the awareness is really low. There are already some shops that accepts bitcoins but only to a select location and it's probably just about 2-3 shops and they are about 5 hours away from me so it's never worth the effort to visit.

unfortunately in my country the whole knowledge of people about bitcoin is to use blockchain.info as wallet and fill it with dust using faucets by wasting their time.

Yeah same as in my country too.
But i don't care govt says, every year more and more people know & accept bitcoin in my country, even to pay electric and mobile balance now can use bitcoin for the payment.

I think bitcoin is not acceptable in my country, because there are no regulations on bitcoin in my country.

 I know just few people who use bitcoins at the moment, on forums, and social networks people from my country are not aware about bitcoin existence, I heard for bitcoin last year for the first time, and only recently started to slowly earn some satoshis. My friends never heard for bitcoin, and I don`t know how to explain them what am I doing. I just telling that I earned few dollars with some easy tasks, but they are very suspicious about all this.
 
 All I know that in capitol we have one bitcoin atm machine where we can buy bitcoins, but I never saw that cause I rarely go there. Its located in some restaurant lobby. I dont know how it works , cause I never had contact with something like this before.

Technically bitcoin is legal in my country.
But too few shops really accept it.
So I hve to stick to the online payments.

I think if there are no shops yet that will accept bitcoin then we can easily cash out it into fiat, that is not necessary if you are not a spender, you just simply create an account at the exchange sites in your area and then cash out or if you want you can still save it for the future.

bitcoin is legal in my country, but bitcoin is not a currency, it's just a digital things, it's like game cash, so only few mechand accept bitcoin, maybe only arround 0.01% of online store accept bitcoin.

I don't think Bitcoin is accepted as a currency anywhere through laws, even if some stores accept it. It's accepted as a payment method in them, but I guess the owners have to exchange it back in USD/EUR/their local currency monthly. As we've got just a few shops accepting BTC, it's hard to use it in our daily routine.

There are some  in places here in my country who accepted bitcoins. In civilized places there are some coffee shops and restaurant are accepting bitcoins. also there are some provinces spreading out bitcoins in the community and there hunting an investor who are not knowledgeable in bitcoins for them to collect money and deceiving the investors that they are directly connected to bitcoins but the truth is not. It was a sad part for the victim. :-\

I am from Bangladesh . In our country bitcoin is not accepted ???

Well bitcoin is not really recognized in my country, but at least many stores online in my country have started using bitcoin as a means of making payment, especially buying domain name

not only in your country but no one country which provide flexibility on the use of bitcoin that known as digital currency,in here we are all still fighting to get recognition from the government that bitcoin can be used as a means of payment for business more quickly and safely.

I think we have the same situation but on bicoin being currency, i think is on people view.  I look at it as currency, even if the government does not recognize it a currency, as long as I can use it to pay for my bills and some online needs, it is a currency.  A currency that have benefit :D

well in our country i have heard that as we all know bitcoin is being used in gambling and it is really prohibited  that is why the central banks are really up to it to make rules and implementation to make it legalized and will not be used in money fraud

Hell with banko central ng pilipinas. I'm from Philippines. I don't use my bitcoin much to buy stuff online but i use it to buy altcoins for trading.
Move my coins to paypal funds if I wanted to buy something online. I would somehow wanna try shopping using bitcoin if there will be a local computer store accepting it.

first it wrong to say that bitcoin is not a currency, bitcoin is a currency it is an online or digital currency and also known as crypto currency. and the second this that every sate has their own policy they have to decide about it that either it is good for their state economy or not if they accept it as a currency in their state or not.

Our government is neutral with bitcoin , they do not have any issue with this technology, so those people who want to adopt bitcoin can adopt it without any problem from the government, and so those people who use bitcoin easily accept bitcoin as a payment for any deal, but their population is not much.

Why all countries will not accept The Bitcoin is legal means. The government will not get any profit from this Bitcoin transaction. That is why all most of all country will not accept Bitcoin as a legal currency.

bitcoin is legal in my country too, though i have never seen any shops too, despite that i know a lot of people in my city using bitcoins

In my country, bitcoin is accepted but only few online  shopping store can really accept as payment method of goods and services. But so far, using bitcoin is the most easiest way to send money to your loveones.

Well, bitcoin is not generally accepted in my country but it is accepted. Since there are a lot of people here in country who have knowledge of bitcoins and who currently hold bitcoins. There are sellers here who took advantage of bitcoins and accept it as their mode of payment. But still bitcoin is not generally used as a mode of payment here in our country

I do not think that was the reason the state to not allow bitcoin in circulation, because we know the state will not be bankrupt without us paying a transaction fee bitcoin. Because the country is still getting supplies from the tax :)

But according to the article I read, bitcoin rejected because the country concerned will be transactions that are anonimous and it will be difficult for the authorities if there are citizens who use bitcoin for illegal activities.

http://www.coindesk.com/information/is-bitcoin-legal/ (http://www.coindesk.com/information/is-bitcoin-legal/)

Yes in my country bitcoin is also acceptable but still few know. Although there are some stores that use bitcoin payments but rarely people are using. May still need a process that bitcoin is used in my country because I think still new bitcoin.

Really? What country are you from by the way and may I also know what type of company is cex ? What kind of business is it engaged it? Maybe the guy there was not oriented properly that is why he doesnt know anything. Who knows, that might be the last time that you will ever be disappointed in making transactions using bitcoin because it will be widely accepted already in your country.

in my country, bitcoin is not really accepted or not accepted. my government has make statement, people can use bitcoin in every way they wants, but governments will not responsible in any matters if people loss of their bitcoin. so its depend on people to choose, they wants to use bitcoin or not. but in my country especially in my city, bitcoin has not already known by people, because there are not enough information about bitcoin, and there are no learning about bitcoin.

That is good that the government in your country will not take the advantage to earn by imposing tax because the value of bitcoin is very high that is i am worrying here in my country if government accept bitcoin to be other source of payment i think they will impose tax on it.

Bitcoin is not legal in my country but not forbit too i can buy some bank bitcoin and i can exchange too my country to my country s money too .

Bitcoin is not legal in my country, also majority of the people don't know about the bitcoin, even my family don't know about it. and when ever i want to talk with them about bitcoin, so they have no interest to know about the bitcoin, and only they say is it stock exchange currency?
But i feel i am lucky to know about bitcoin.

Some very small percent of merchants accept bitcoin in my country but most of them are ignorant or look down on bitcoin.
I hope things improve in future

Bitcoin is not accepted in my country. Not more people are aware of it. I can't use it physically anywhere in my country, so I just convert to my local currency or I will purchase something online.

in my country although is no restriction in my country, but still there are very few facilities in our country to use bitcoin in local markets, the reason is that most of shopkeeper do not accept bitcoin in their shops for shopping, actually they have no knowledge abut bitcoin most of the shopkeepers are illustrate have no knowledge about bitcoin and computer, therefore they do not believe on bitcoin. i think in my country it required such a long time that people will get knowledge about bitcoin and they they will allow bitcoin to use for trading in their shops.

In my country many of the people don't know about the bitcoin,still i am using it...
I am using it on recharging my cell phone, paying the shopping bills... so i think its accepted in my country

Your case just as it happened in my country. Here a lot of people using bitcoin and the government does not prohibit, but the government has not legalized it. So if we lose our bitcoin due to fraud or stolen, the government will not be responsible. But because fraud is banned in my country the perpetrators may be arrested hehe.

Yeah, it is indeed very true and it is indeed a major problem for bitcoin in the introduction in all sectors. All sectors are still not know and understand the bitcoin deeper, or they already understand the basic of bitcoin but they fear the security assurance given by bitcoin as they heard the news about some companies affected bitcoin hacking

Actually my government not accept the Bitcoin, but i can use it in online shopping and also i am paying my bills from bitcoin. But my country not accept it, but may be in future bitcoin would be allow, so in my country a huge numbers of the people have no idea about bitcoin, and some people don't want to use it because in their views, bitcoin is a fake currency. But in my view, bitcoin is best for me.

In my country Is not accept the bitcoin money.  I don't know why?  But I wish that someday bitcoin is accept by the government  . That's why I convert my bitcoin to a local money to use this and to buy any thing I want. 

Yeah Even in my country also bitcoin is not accepted and there is no any place for bitcoin as a payment but we can still use it as payment in online merchants that accept bitcoin as their payment. People are still unfamiliar with bitcoin so bitcoin isn't commonly used in here. But I'm sure in next few years bitcoin will well spread and more companies will accept bitcoin as payment.

It was when it started getting recognized and shown in the media quite a bit. But that was when it was the "new e-currency that you need to try!". Those days have gone and it is pretty mainstream now and more people have heard of the since then. But those places that accepted it for payments don't anymore since that latest and greatest thing buzz has since subsided.

As of now bitcoin still not accepted in any store in my country and i think it takes a long journey before we will see that our country will be the same as brazil that has 150 stores are accepting bitcoin as payment.. but here in my country we have a good company that accepting bitcoin that we can convert bitcoin fast into fiat.. anytime we can withdraw it using there service..

I think we are just the same here if we are in brazil place maybe some stores are accepting bitcoin is payment because many companies there are known bitcoin and i heard that there is 150 stores can accept bitcoin as payment like starbucks.

That's very saddening to hear that your country hasn't accepted bitcoins just yet but it's only a matter of time until people know about it. Maybe you can be one of the people who would publicize bitcoins or maybe ask some stores about it.

no it is not.bitcoin is like a ghost or we can say a top secret project type thing here, only some gang knows about it and they compete with each other we call them busnessman but my countrymens call them scammers or kids playing with play coins

Yup in my country also the same problem. The Bitcoin is not a legal currency. So we have the only option that some website will convert bitcoin to our local currency. There we exchange our Bitcoins, and we use it for our personal use.



I think there are the maximum number of countries are not accepting Bitcoin. I am Publicising about Bitcoin in my friend circle. I am doing my work, Let's see it will work out or not.

Maybe that's in your current location but not the whole country. Where do you live? I can't think of a country that doesn't have that one guy that does nothing but sit in front of the computer. In most cases, that 'one guy' is tons of guys. I think the people in your country are all into traditional stuffs and the only people that has an Internet connection are the rich ones. Since you're here and you have some bitcoins, is it safe to say that you're considered as a 'businessman' in your country? :)

Yes it's accepted here in the Philippines and more people use bitcoin at this moment and more people got interest and investing in it.you can easyly trade now using bitcoin in the pH buying some goods.

In India and Asian country still bitcoin is not considered as illegal as their is no specific law but still only 15% of them knew about bitcoin and crypto currency, Till their is not specific clarity on bitcoin i think more people will be afraid to use it.

Yeah, even all the countries have not received the bitcoin as currency and all transactions carried out by all those using bitcoin positive illegal, because the law has not had the bitcoin. However this is not a problem for me, because I did a positive transaction and only in lieu of bitcoin loss from the stuff I take

We have to admit that bitcoin is just not for everyone as it is complicated for the mind of those people who does not use to do online transactions. For a person to understand what is bitcoin, we need to give him a continuous education and convince him that there is a good benefits in using bitcoins.

No our country doesnot accept bitcoin

Yeah but its really difficult to convince people around us as they want to stay away from internet and online stuff so its hard to expect them from them to start using bitcoin.

Here in Italy some shops and freelancers accept bitcoin payments and we also have some bitcoin ATM but it is not really accepted

Thats really good that in some shops atleast bitcoin is accepted but in my country bitcoin has not made that much progress and a majority of peoples dont even know about what bitcoin is.So bitcoin needs to more popular to be accepted in my country.

but here in my country we have a big problem related to bitcoin here no one is accepting bitcoin in shops although the state has yet not give any statement about bitcoin, they have not yet consider it as a legal currency and no illegal but the problem is that our people do not now about bitcoin adn that si the reason that they are not accepting bitcoin in their shops there for we are only investing bitcoin for the price increase and when needed we first convert bitcoin in fiat and they use it in the market.

in my country bitcoin is not as currency, it's just digital thing, but bitcoin is not illegal, people can accept bitcoin as payment processor but still use fiat as rate of the comodity

The majority of people that even knows about bitcoin in my country is at 29%

Many people don't even know that it assist so lots of biz in my country don't accept bitcoin as payment, only few online exchanges are the one that can help to convert to flat currency before i can use it to bye what ever i want

That is the scenario in many countries that many people are not aware about it so we cannot expect that it will be used at physical places for buying goods.

It's accepted in Serbia, i mean no one cares that much but i believe theres a restaurant in Belgrade where you can pay in btc and an atm somewhere in Belgrade, idk where exactly.

are you sure about the atm? are there any restrictions using it or something? i would like to know that and will try to research it but you might have more chance to do so, as i assume you speak the language better then me. i am thankful for more information. 

Its not accepted physically in my country yet but there are many exchanges from where you can convert your bitcoins to your local currency, in short its not illegal in my country.

In my country, lot of people knowing bitcoin. But the government doesn't accept bitcoin for legal transactions. They don't give responsibility for any risk that cause of bitcoin transactions.

It really depends on the country that person is living in and the company behind the Bitcoin ATMs.

In some cases the government will force the companies to verify every single user the first time they use that ATM, and in some cases the company itself does it for "security purposes".

I will avoid using these ATMs at all times as you don't know what will happen with your personal information.

My country do accept bitcoins and some local stores here accept it too for payment of bills.

Yes it is getting more popular everyday than before hope to get more companies pay salary for their employees only in btc

but to me in my country the government has not given any statement about bitcoin, it seems that our government is also do not know about bitcoin, therefore they are not serious about it, on other side on social media although there is a lot of discussion about bitcoin and now people are getting awareness about bitcoin but still majority of the people have no idea about it and therefore most of the shopkeepers do not accept bitcoin for shopping directly.

but to me in my country the government has not given any statement about bitcoin, it seems that our government is also do not know about bitcoin, therefore they are not serious about it, on other side on social media although there is a lot of discussion about bitcoin and now people are getting awareness about bitcoin but still majority of the people have no idea about it and therefore most of the shopkeepers do not accept bitcoin for shopping directly.

It will take long time to happen that all companies will start paying salary in bitcoins, but it will be more popular in future and many companies will start using it for sure.

that is exactly why i am asking. i do not want my personal information to float around, because you never know who might get hold of it and what they might to. is there a website wich lists all the atms?

Yeah it will take a very long time and if it will happen then many people will face some problem because bitcoin is not accepted by some countries. If some companies will pay salary in bitcoins then bitcoin should be used in that countries Isn't it ??

don't thing those company will going to risk their money because of fluctuation they'll need a fixed currency with stable value so they could just pay their clients with the prepared money and not going to decrease or increase the amount and getting worried because of the fluctuation to be honest

yeah I think it will take a long time maybe 5-10 years in the future so that bitcoin could be more popular and well known that many people will begin to adopt and use bitcoin. mayne include many companies that will adopt the bitcoin. we wil waiting for it

Yes, but it is only limited on some stores only and that limited store is not where you can buy your daily needs. Bitcoin accepting stores here are just made for innovation like cupcake stores or coffee shops. You can also pay your bills like credit card, electricity, water bill, etc. but it still risky to do it because bitcoin is not that well known right now so you still have to convert it to cash first before paying them.

yes ofcourse and i am thankful that bitcoin here in our country is accepting bitcoin and bitcoin is legal to use where we can also pay our monthly bills , and we use also to buy some random staff and for daily expenses i love using and spending bitcoin thats why and we can also deposit or withdraw our coins into bank account

That would be awesome if bitcoin will be accepted as payment to stores and can be used to pay for bills in my country. However, I am contented as to the status of bitcoin in my country because I only use bitcoin to gamble, exchange, trade, and loan offer online and nothing more.

Yeah the future of bitcoin is bright and it will be widely used and accepted in future we just need to wait for the right time for it to happen and we would be able to spend it hassle free.

Not all the things we can buy with bitcoins especially when the amount involved is a considerable amount of money, sometimes we prefer to know who our transacting with to feel comfortable in transacting online, only when there is a platform that would be supported by the community to comply with the KYC policy will the transaction on online shopping will increase.

our goverment legalize bitcoins because our goverment is corrupt hahaha here in philippines where some stores are now accepting bitcoin as a payment and our bitcoin wallet where they linked or make partners in some banks and remitance center where they can deposit our bitcoins we sell im thankful that bitcoin help me to earn money :) 

That is cool. It s being used now for many different payments including bills. I think it will be much faster so you wont need to queue everytime you pay.

You're still proud of that?

Where did you get that news? any proof? read this -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bitcoin_by_country#Philippines  .. As far as I know there is only a handful, not even more than your fingers in your hand that accepts bitcoin here in the Philippines except for the exchange sites...

You’re still lucky that your country accepts bitcoin. In my place, there are only like one or two coffee shops that uses bitcoin and they only available in the foreigners tour area. And we can hardly pay bills with bitcoin directly. We even don’t have bitcoin ATM so it’s quite difficult for bitcoin users to think about using bitcoins here.

Hey man!!! I think that's wrong to say that, you are part of the system, you are part of the Philippines government since you are here.. But anyway, lets go back to the topic, it's good that you find stores that accept bitcoin here, I haven't find any, even online stores, that is why I always resort to just converting my coins to fiat if I have to buy something.

even with bitcoin atm's and several bars and restaurants accepting bitcoin people won't direclty start using it. they are waiting for places to buy their daily needs with bitcoin. that's when people will be much more willing to start using bitcoin also as a currency instead of only as an investment tool. that aside, bitcoin atm's have quite hefty fees. so it may not even be that interesting to use them.

I agree that it will take a long time for company to adopt bitcoin as their payment for their employees salary. Maybe a decade because of some setup and rules to be made.  We all know that company takes time to decide in implementing stuff that doesnt need an urgent attention.

Yes and it will also need mutual understanding  between the companies officials and everyone should get agree to it then only its possible to implement bitcoins.

bitcoin in not officially accepted in my county i don't even know if they know about it or not but i and some of my friends are teaching people about it i know its not much but we are doing it

In my country, only few people that know about bitcoin and even the government here also not know about bitcoin, so i think bitcoin is still fine and maybe accepted in my country.

Same here in our country (or we may probably live in the same? I doubt it though).
There's only around a total of at most 10 stores that accept bitcoin and those stores are only found in the capital city which is about 5 hours away from me on vehicle travel. It wouldn't really be worth to go on a 10-hour drive just to see them.

if you mean by accepted that stores or online sites are accepting it. the answer is no. bitcoin is only famous between people how are interested in making money online or forex. but generally they are very few. so spending bitcoin without exchange it is impossible

Exactly there is no place to spend bitcoins at a moment so only option available is to convert it to local currency and use it in the form of fiat.

Nope, and i am so sad, i want to waste my bitcoins on food in physical shops, want to pay for my coffe with bitcoins but i can use it online only :(
-sadboys-

Don't worry mate things will change in future for sure, we need to give some more time to bitcoin to become more popular and we will see many offline stores where we would be able to spend our coins.

Lol yeah I know it. there are two possibilities, may governments around the region rarely sees the Internet or indeed bitcoin famous not lol.
I think it's because bitcoin is less well known then the government does not know about bitcoin

The government obviously know bitcoin and they are already making measures on how to handle it because this is also a threat sometimes like buying illegal weapons and drugs, and the transacting party is unknown due to its anonymous in nature.

Bitcoin is accepted in Australia. It's accepted in most countries except a few like Pakistan, Russia..etc.

I think that this is really hindering Bitcoin capacity to expand.

 :)

Mostly Bitcoin accepted on some exchange to buy something else virtual content.
Some trader accept bitcoin to reload airtime or mobile data purchase.

Well after what I have read bitcoin is allowed in the Philippines and where I live. I use bitcoin for online payments or exchange it for a different currency and use methods like paypal to pay.

bitcoin must be accepted in the Philippines Central bank to avoid monopoly of those remittance centers. it is very convenient using bitcoin for any transaction, for now as an OFW i can pay SSS, TelCo., buy loads for my love once all online using bitcoin.

I think for a few years it will still be impossible adopt an enterprise system with bitcoin payment of their salaries. although it could provide benefits for employees for avoiding taxes. but this time bitcoin is not so popular yet? it may take a few more years

Not at all...only few shops (below 20) accepted BTC in my country,

and I don't think it is easy to cashout in here too  :-\

my country is INDONESIA....in my country,bitcoin is not accepted because we have a rule which says the money in INDONESIA is only made from Bank Indonesia, so type of money which didnt from Bank Indonesia its not accepted :) ....but in jakarta , bali its start use bitcoin payment,because there is a lot of tourist in there,and much of tourist use bitcoin,so the store,restaurant are started use bitcoin payment in there :)

I think you're still grateful for your government does not know about bitcoin. I'm sure if your government know about bitcoin and superiority. I'm sure they will think that bitcoin is a threat to them. because of the potential of bitcoin is very large.

Bitcoin is accepted in my country, to be used...for payment etc

then it so good for you that bitcoin is acceptable in your country Australia , i am from Pakistan and there is no facility to accept bitcoin as your country but i hope we will soon get the facility to accept bitcoin in my country in near future.

So how do you buy within your country? Through paypal or credit card in some exchange websites? I hope they open up something that will make it easier for other people.

Indeed, in some countries there are many stores that accept bitcoin. But my country is very rare because it is very difficult to find the use bitcoin, and bitcoin very few people who understand. But in my country received only bitcoin circulation less.

same rule is in my country too (NEPAL).. we are not allowed to pay in other currency until we are from other country...but we can use little little for some recharge and other normal activities   

the same in my country to be honest most people dont use bitcoins at all though i dont think that it is a good thing we need bigger adoption

I have seen no websites are accepting bitcoin for buying or selling goods. But there are so many local traders who accept bitcoin in exchange of local currency.

I think it better not to use your bitcoin for silly shoppings like daily groceries or mobile recharge. Because, this way you will slowly loose your fortune. Bitcoin has a huge upside potential. So hold on to it for long time without spending it. You will feel the power of bitcoin.

in my country bitcoin is not prohibited. but the development of bitcoin is not supported by the government. bitcoin is floating because there is no regulation that recognizes about bitcoin. it is a barrier for stores to accept bitcoin.

governments will never accept the development of something (in this case bitcoin) that has the potential to cause them a lot damage. all the development has to come from the community, and people looking to build applications and increase the adoption.

The floating situation happens in a lot of countries because they're feeling doubt to applied bitcoin in their country and feeling difficult to leave the bitcoin. but it's better than the government is banned the bitcoin from their region.

in fact some country now doing research about blockchain, and trying launching his official digital currency, maybe in future goverment will make bitcoin as legal currency like other normal currency in the world

NEPAL is good country i visited there for 2 times. it is a fact that i never saw a shop who accept bitcoin, i NEPAL very little number of people know about bitcoin, and that s the reason that they are not accepting bitcoin in shops, the government of NEPAL also have no recommendation about bitoin.

Bitcoin usage have been increasing continuously but it haven't got any legalization on using. Government have not initiated any regulations as it have not impacted much upon country's economy.

Its so bad from Government because in my country also bitcoin is being accepted in all places. Only through localbitcoins only we are exchange to fiat and using it. Hoping for bright future on bitcoin in my country...

the governments are not going to take such blind steps first they have to analyze it and after that they will be thinking about its regularization, in fact some countries are going to take a positive step towards the legalization of bitcoin.

However, a few countries have banned bitcoin altogether,  few has taken a generally positive approach towards bitcoin. Most countries have not clearly made determinations on the legality of bitcoin, preferring instead to take a wait-and-see approach. Some countries have indirectly assented to the legal usage of bitcoins by enacting some regulatory oversight. However, bitcoin is never legally acceptable as a substitute for a country’s legal tender.

It is accepted in my country. I heard it was accepted early 2014.  There is a third party processor that enable you to spend bitcoin in return of their services.  They even have some referral bonus scheme. I  think it is a good way to advertise and spread news about bitcoin.

bitcoin is really not banned in our country but not legal also but there were few merchants that accepts  bitcoin as their way of payment which makes it  much easier for us to spend some of it. I also do share bitcoin to my circle of friends.

In my Country it's not widely accepted but we are not prohibited to use or keep Bitcoins. There are warnings sent by the Government about the risks of using Bitcoin but again its not banned. There are only a handful of merchants accepting Bitcoins and a few local exchangers. So I don't see Bitcoin going mainstream in my Country in the next couple of years.

That's a good way to advertise it to become more popular in that country well it's that good for the community thier.  It's a good to be more business will open soon in your country that accept bitcoin good start.

I think most of the countries are already accepting bitcoins but the problem is it is not popular to the majority of users, even the prominent people in my area does not know bitcoin until I told them about it, I just hope we will grow as a big community.

In my country, the government doesn’t give any restriction about using bitcoin but it seems to me that they don’t want us to use bitcoin or just simply don’t know about it or maybe they’re afraid of the risk that bitcoin brings . And the people in my place don’t care much about bitcoin, some of them even don’t know what bitcoin is so I hope that some day the government would realize the potential of it and would encourage people to use it officially.

I think people are aware about bitcoins in most of the countries and they are even using it online, but the merchants are still not aware about it and that is the reason they are not accepting it.

If we keep fiat out of the system, then Bitcoin is unregulated in my country. As it is decentralized, it can be considered to be a domestic currency here. i think with good adoption in future it may happen.

If you are able to convert your bitcoins to your local currency easily that means bitcoin is accepted in your country but the important this is to know where you can spend it physically or not.

 
Bitcoin is not prohibited to use but many countries where bitcoin is not used as a direct payment method like other currencies. But i am still hoping and waiting for the time when bitcoin is accepted in my country and i use bitcoin to buy things from stores in my country. It will take a long time to accept in different countries of world.

yiz same as here or are we from the same country were our bitcoin wallet can be use to pay our monthly bills ? no need to go in bayad center to pay that thing ? and this bitcoin wallet is partner in some banks where they can deposit our money because we sell to them our bitcoins and then exchange it into fiat so that we can use it for our future needs

We are from the same country, too bad we cant spend it by purchasing in any stores because it is not recognize yet but im looking forward that somehow that would happen. its a good thing our local wallet has features where we can pay our bills and buy load so its convenient for us.

We just have to hope for that. But maybe with us spending it more and if businessmen see's that we might have a chance that they will enter in our countries. I got that little problem also when it comes to spending physically.

it think its the major problem of all the country across the globe... there are only limited country who accept the BTC directly so many of us  change that BTC to fiat from the local people who are intrested to buy or from the international source.....and talking about the partnership between the banks and the BTC wallets is a new thing for me

in my country, government does not know nothing about bitcoin or how it works so I believe it is not officially legal nor illegal yet.
there are also few bitcoin traders I can sell to them

Yeah even I don't see any involvement of Government in my country when it comes to bitcoin, and I don't know whether its legal or illegal, but there are many exchange sites to convert it to local currency.

Not yet, but Im sure in my country will accepted in the future.
if the majority of people are already using bitcoin.

Yes because is very popular here in our country in fact I am using this to pay for my bills and to load cell airtime load but it is not yet mainstream as common people here in our country do not know yet what bitcoin is maybe in the next two years ..

Yes the adoption will make a difference, if we have more users using bitcoins that will surely draw an attention of Government and others which will help in implementing  bitcoin in country.

government not saying anything about bitcoin or having no rules about it doesn't mean they don't know about it!

of course they do know about bitcoin, i don't know any country that their government is stupid enough not to know about bitcoin existence.

if you search enough and know where to search you can find something that points to bitcoin , maybe some suggestion in your parliament about bitcoin that never got confirmed but trust me they do exist if you look for it.

Governments are well aware about the bitcoins, and in my country bitcoin has not received green signal from government yet but may be in future they will stand by bitcoins.

are you sure about it? no regulation for digital currency?
i think each goverment know about bitcoin, but most of them see bitcoin just for digital asset no more.

yeah, bitcoin is accepted in my country as there are some shops for it

Well you can take your guess, but here in the States there are a lot of places that accept Bitcoin in a lot of different places, you just have to be looking in the right locations. While it isn't accepted everywhere and you can just go and use it, still a fair amount of people are involved with Bitcoin and it just takes a little bit of finding or knowing the right people to spend it. A fair amount of online shops sell it too.

I think Government views it as an threat to their financial system and that is the reason they are not making any official announcement related to bitcoin.

sadly it is not, i cannot pay with it anywhere in my country

Because they cannot easily control bitcoin unlike the current financial system where they are the one making money. Bitcoin is a unique thing that would give equality regardless of your status in life as long as you know how to do it and able to risk some money for investment or transaction online.

My goverment still forbid for some reason ( it can be use for terorrism activity ) which will be very sensitive problem for my country to face it.
Hope on the future my goverment can realize what can bitcoin do that fiat can't do !

But it does not mean bitcoin is accepted in my country because I converting my amount and no one knows about that and especially the government. But in my country, the freedom of people is very good. they can do anything but without violate the rules of the constitution.

If bitcoin would be illegal in your country then goverment would not allowed for exchange traders to exist, they would have banned them from their services.

Yeah. Some country banned bitcoin from transacting inside their country and if they caught you using it, they will put you in jail. But other country only ban the things related to gambling like bitcoin gambling but not the bitcoin itself.

That is certainly true, but I think there is definitely the citizens who still use the bitcoin in every transaction they do or just wait until the State of the investments they cancelled such banned or wait for the price of bitcoin ride. This will not be a problem, because each country will not be able to do some checking to all of its citizens in the use of the internet

As I experienced, my country there is no ban on using bitcoin. There is even a local bitcoin exchanger in my country. But on the other hand, my country has not endorsed the bitcoin. However, if you are using bitcoin here to gamble, it became illegal because my country prohibits gambling. Or fraud in bitcoin transaction, Because fraud is criminal then the authorities will arrest the perpetrators. The government does not prohibit bitcoin if for a good thing.

I think the country you are talking about is Bangladesh as bitcoin is totally banned there and if found using then are very strict laws, but in rest of the countries the scenario is smooth.

Where I live there are some places where bitcoin accepted, like restaurants, few taxi companies.

That's good to hear that you have at least few places where you can spend your coins directly, but the scenario is not same in all countries, in my country its really hard to spend coins.

In different countries they have different treatment to bitcoin some may see it as a threat and some treat it as a normal currency. It all really depends on how the country would adopt bitcoin but its good to hear that some countries are already accepting bitcoin as a payment  in purchasing items physically.

If the Government of that particular country is not corrupted and if they are thinking in benefits of the citizen of their country then they will welcome bitcoin with open arms and it will happen soon in many more countries, we should be positive about it.

A majority of the countries that have accepted bitcoins as a normal currency are all first world countries. I don't know any third world country that have any bitcoin stores already. But I heard due to lack of direct acceptance, many bitcoiners find this as a business opportunity to act as an exchanger to bridge the gaps.

thats true and basically then bitcoin wouldnt be able to exist as no one would use it, bitcoin is allowed in my country to be honest at least there are no laws banning it

Its good that you can use bitcoins freely as in most countries government is not supporting bitcoins but they have not banned too, but if bitcoin gets support from government then it can be more powerful and popular.

As i know my countrie hasnt any position around it at the moment, its a subject they wanna delay as possible to think about it. This will take a long period till some countrie start this and others should follow.

In Romania Bitcoin is accepted and some people know and use it. Here we dont have any stores online that accept Bitcoin as payment but i think this is not a problem because you can exchange Bitcoin in other wallets like PerfectMoney and them withdraw it on you credit card and use it.

I think when a country began to accept and believe bitcoin. I think there will be many countries will start to follow. so I will be very excited when a country comes and accept bitcoin as a currency option. or at least recognize bitcoin? I hope it will happen

However it will be hard for them to accept when they will not be educated, I think this is our duty to help support bitcoin by educating those people who does not know bitcoin yet. I know there are people that you really need to teach them one on one in order to understand as not all people are techy.

Not everyone accepts bitcoin here in Australia, but some people do. So I guess you could say that it's accepted. If you think about it, it could be accepted anywhere.

Here in Brazil is used, but only in small scale and mostly on online shops

Like here in my country which is Philippines we can spend our bitcoin in online shopping and because of the good services of our bitcoin wallet that is coins.ph we can also pay our bills, loading our cellphone, can encash into bank and some remittance centers that is why i can say that bitcoin is already accepted here in my country.

Canada and The US. So yup, they are!  8)

I think no problem with that country as you lived in  developed countries, the problem only is when you are living in a less developed countries where there are only few development of the establishment and your chance of spending your bitcoins is very low, lucky are those who live in countries where users are everywhere because they can transact and sell stuffs online easily.

yeah I think if the government did ban on the use of bitcoin. I thought it would not be a problem. because bitcoin anonymous.
the government will not know that you're using and the bitcoin. so I think it's legal or illegal is not a problem for bitcoin

Bitcoin is accepted in my country i have to be honest to say visa\mastercard are widely used than bitcoin in many countries include mine .

well credit card still dominate the entire digital transaction and IRL transaction until now and bitcoin is going to chase it,because honestly,bitcoin still not good or efficient enough to be payment option due to the blockchain system which require confirmation,even bitcoin debit card makes the visa and mastercard domination even more higher

The only problem is the KYC process, though credit card can be fast in transaction but if you will consider the expenses, it is really big compared to using bitcoins, but people have no choice because credit card can be accepted anywhere because it has your true identity when you are transacting it.

Yup bitcoin accepted in our country. Coins.ph is the best way to send money, pay bills, and load your phone in the Philippines. You can also buy egift cards or steam codes and garena shells.

I live in Ukraine and in my country people barely know what bitcoin is, not even speaking of using it :)

You are actually in the right track and take advantage of it to accumulate more bitcoins. So that when people in your country get to notice bitcoins and it will be publicly accepted by the majority of the people living in Ukraine, then you can exchange some of your bitcoins for real cash during that time to your fellow citizen there :)

Bitcoin is very much accepted in my country, although the level of awareness on it by ordinary people is not yet high, which is kind of understandable because it is still a young digital currency. But I like what I am seeing with local exchanges coming out and offering bitcoin services.

Bitcoin is accepted in my country. I can use it to buy mobile load and pay bills for the utilities and I can earn if I pay other bills too aside from my own bills through my wallet. I am hoping that time will come I will be able to buy my basic needs like food and clothing through bitcoin not needing to cash it out as fiat to buy those items.

Yes they accepted bitcoin in our country but in the electricity bills , telephone, and the SSS membership only.But in the online store or department store is not yet . I know this government can implement to use bitcoin pay at the grocery store or shopping mall . Bitcoin is easier to use than credit card so it 's okay if they know of gorvernment for their approval to use it .

Yes bitcoin is accepted in my country and I don't find any problem in using it, even if I have to convert it to local currency then there are many exchanges available to transact instantly.

It is not difficult to find merchants or individuals who accept bitcoin these days no matter where you live because internet has made world on small village

Here there are a lot of traders in Localbitcoins.com who buy/sell BTCs. And there are few Bitcoin ATMs, in addition to a few restaurants and coffee shops which accept BTC. But it is impossible to use BTC for retail shopping. Not a single super-market accepts BTC. For retail shopping, I need to convert my BTC to fiat, by paying a hefty premium.

Yes, it has been accepted without big problems in recent years.

Ofcourse bitcoin are accepted here in my country , and its legal and some merchants now are now accepting bitcoin as a payment method we can now also pay our monthly bill with our bitcoin wallet its now less hassle because we don't need to travel that far to pay our bills and we use coins.ph because it is amazing here in philippines <3

Philippines is really developed country in terms of bitcoin as most of the people are aware about bitcoin, I have few female friends from Philippines and they all are using bitcoins and that really surprised me as girls from my country have not even heard about bitcoins.

I think it was not declared as legal or illegal, the proper words is just it is acceptable here in our country, we can actually easily cash out from different banks and for me though we cannot directly spend our bitcoins online but with exchanges in the area it would be possible to easily cash out.

they are kinda known  in Greece but they are currently not accepted in any shop... unfortunately. at least from what i know.
I am buying tho Things from Fasttech in china. Cheap and good quality

It's not officially accepted, but some stores accept Bitcoins.

Actually it is not that it is legal or illegal here in the Philippines, it is not regulated by the government and I think they are just starting to monitor online transactions now... Everything that the previous poster said happens because of coins.ph and not because the establishment accepts bitcoin.. Coins.ph just process your transaction, or payment, but the establishment will still receive fiat and not bitcoin.

how is it accepted in your country? i dont have any shops that would be accepting bitcoins around my country and it is really frustrating as i can spend my bitcoins online only

i look that many country is not giving the good statement about bitcoin, they don't make a statement bitcoin is legal or illegal. maybe in off the record, government in each country will said, use bitcoin for your own risk and don't blame everyone when you get scam. i think this is why that its time for any institutions related with bitcoin will give the right information so the government will accepted bitcoin.

what do you mean not officially, some store accept bitcoin course they are officially accept bitcoin although there is currently a lot of big companies that accept bitcoin.

Yes if they are accepting bitcoin that means they are officially into it, and  may be in future we will find many shops that will start accepting bitcoin as a mode of payment.

It is hard to pull back if you sttarted it. Specially when a lot of peoplr have known that your shop is accepting this currency. Sometimes I think about it. How is the owner taking the $100 dollar fall I bet he is good at managing it.

Yes bitcoin is accepted in my country and I don't see any interference from Government and I can convert it to my local currency very easily so everything is fine at a moment.

That is certainly true, if we manage something that hasn't been heard or not known by most people then it is something that is futile and will not provide a positive impact. But if you want to get something good, then open an Online store is the most appropriate thing. because everyone knows it and definitely you get customers

Being considered legal is different from simply just accepted. Well, it's not really officially accepted as well as there are only third party company/ies that are actually doing the business. But these private organizations may trigger governments' stand on bitcoin in future. Governments may consider them as their free of cost trail providers.

the same in my country though i have never been to one because it is far away from my city

 I belong to philippines also, so far there is only one merchant I know who accepted bitcoin and that is coins.ph, and few businesses only who accepted bitcoins which can be found in makati, and restaurant. when it comes to adoptions where not in that stage maybe it will take a long time before the masses realize how big advantage we have if we are using bitcoins. :)

well still better than nothing i guess, around me there are no shops to be honest

Bitcoin is not too popular in my country and very few are aware about it and if that is the case we cannot expect that we would be able to spend it physically.

my country is not regulated is bitcoin
but my country not refuse, and do not forbid
much exchanger my country , legal company and regulated and paid tax

You can also walk into some stores in your area asking them if they are willing to accept Bitcoin as form of payment alongside their usual payment options. It's potential extra revenue that they could be generating. Which store doesn't like that idea? I am doing the same and 2 shops have notified the store boss about it. One is a small local super market, and the other is a Japanese restaurant. Will be interesting to see whether or not they will give Bitcoin a chance.

it was very nice, it is beginning to countries you can recognize bitcoin. most disadvantaged countries even refuse bitcoin. your country can still fight for bitcoin as a legitimate financial payment media.

Yes, I think it should be accepted in any country.

That's is become my problem for me and cause of that will sue me to always exchanging my BTC into local currency but i think the people is having a freedom for using bitcoin in my country.

I think bitcoin accepted in my country, because the government here never notice or make a rule about bitcoin. So, i think bitcoin accepted in my country.

Like here in my country, bitcoin is already accepted because some banks are accepting deposit money go to my bitcoin wallet and also withdrawals thru banks and i am also hoping that in the other country would also be accepting bitcoin.

But you need to have a verification I.D and Selfie Verification to allowed a person to deposit and withdraw with the max potential of their service as I can say Bitcoin in the Philippines is only regulated and not accepted as a means of money or fiat. however supposedly a certain store and restaurant might be accepting BTC as a payments though.

yes, bitcoin accepted at my country
i can trade bitcoin to my country's currency easily and no need verification
also withdraw it without any restriction

since many countries have accepted bitcoins in a better way but some of countries have banned it by said it illegal .
since i am from India so i think there are both the chances of ban or allow the bitcoin in future . but i Hope that my country will accept the bitcoin.

My government does not like the concept of what bitcoin is and it threatens their control over the countries currency. So no it is not accepted widely in my country. :-\

Hello sir , I'm from Philippines also. I'm very thankful because my country are accepted bitcoin like not other country bitcoin is banned.
I used coins.ph the Asia's wallet. Easy to buy bitcoin and more using this up like load and gadgets :)

i think in future every country  will surely accept the country because of its advantage. since there may be some taxation in the future by the government of  the countries .

Bitcoin is open to all countries actually, only the other country is not open to it. And we don't know the reason why? That's why lucky to all bitcoin enthusiast who lives in Europe, Australia, Canada, Russia and China. those countries are adopting the bitcoin system has. It may not be all businesses over accept bitcoin but majority of it is being used.

I think it's not that legal or illegal, it is more like there is not much authority or law that could regulate bitcoin yet in where we live, but soon, since there are already laws about internet and cyber world, for sure there will come a time that the government will pass a bill that would regulate the use of bitcoin and other online currencies and transactions...   :)

There are some places where you can spend your coins here, but the places that do accept Bitcoin aren't of real interest to me. I am more looking for super markets and other stores where I can pay with Bitcoin for my daily needs.

Good to hear that.  Just like here in our country we can trade bitcoin and withdraw it directly.  Coin wallet here do even have partnered with many remittance centers, a convenience store.  Also banks and other services like paying loans, paying bills like electricity and credit cards.  You could also pay tuition fees, how cool is that.  Though people in our country were not still aware of these transactions and about bitcoin.  But surely it will happen as there is an increasing rate of users as of now.

I have seen a store bitcoin signage in Davao like the usual logo in bitcoin (the orange background) but I did not stop by because I am riding a bus that time but I am sure that's a bitcoin logo. And I didn't see it for myself if it's a store btw but why the heck they would hang in there if it's not bitcoin related anyway?

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Hello sir , I'm from Philippines also. I'm very thankful because my country are accepted bitcoin like not other country bitcoin is banned.
I used coins.ph the Asia's wallet. Easy to buy bitcoin and more using this up like load and gadgets :)
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Good to hear that you pretty much enjoying what you are doing now, through coins.ph I know you learn a lot everything about in bitcoin right? If I'm gonna rate it in 100% our country is averaging for now at 5% so far or maybe less than 5%. That's the reality status, but I'm not  losing hope its hard from the start but in the long run everything will be going smooth. :D

Good to hear that you pretty much enjoying what you are doing now, through coins.ph I know you learn a lot everything about in bitcoin right? If I'm gonna rate it in 100% our country is averaging for now at 5% so far or maybe less than 5%. That's the reality status, but I'm not  losing hope its hard from the start but in the long run everything will be going smooth. :D
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im also a proud filipino here :D i think bitcoin is not fully accepted in our country but it is not also banned :D but i had read an article that our country is trying to make an e-currency to use on our monetary system and they used bitcoin as their reference. the e-currency will be named e-peso. i hope that this project will be successful ;)

Yeah, majority have this problem, we couldn't use it in anywhere, like stores, departmental stores, and money exchange etc in our country. But thank God, we have that facility to utilize the bitcoin in online anywhere. Since when i know about bitcoin, so now i use bitcoin in online like my all bills paying also amount transfer. Bitcoin really help us in this way.

We can simply use our fiat money to buy things in physical stores and the like and use bitcoin for online transactions that accepts bitcoin.
In my case, I only use bitcoin for exchange, loan, and deposits in online casino.

For me, since I am not that a big spender online, I am already contended that I am able to cash out my bitcoins once I need money. I use my bitcoins most of the time in gambling sites as I love to play sports betting which is my long time dream to be a successful capper.

Yes, it is acceptable in our country also.  I could even load my cellphone through my bitcoin wallet.  I could do some money transfer in a flash.  My bitcon wallet that is legal or licensed in our country had partnered with almost all cash remittances.  They even allow me to pay my bills, loans, insurance, and even tuition fees.  Oops!  I am from the Philippines also.  :D

bitcoin is accepted in my country either, there have never been any regulations or laws on it and it is a really great thing because i can use it freely

Nope, but i am wating for it, it's very hard to use bitcoin when you can't spend it, i want to buy food and etc in physical shops, but nowdays, online shopping only.