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I'm curious as to what people buy with bitcoin? Surely we can't all just horde it?!

The only thing I bought was a miner from BFL. This was just before the spike so my miner has now cost me about $3,000. That's a hard pill to swallow but I know others are worse off than me. Also, I hope to make that back quickly as long as they start shipping... soon ???

Post up photos or just a description of what you've purchased.

I've bought steam games, coffee, asic, and I attempted to get someone to fix my xbox for 3 BTC.. they didnt accept.. that was when btc was 15 dollars ea.

not DIRECTLY with bitcoin... (sold for paypal and then paid with paypal)..


new intercooler for the car
new summer tires for the car
2x 7950's and 1x 7970


thats just in the last 10 days :-D

I'm paying for hosting with BTC.

A car - but yeah, exchanged for fiat first.

Geek toys:  Android tablet, helicopter (great kitty toy), odds 'n' ends like that.

Cigarettes.  Damn, I wish somebody would sell real Gauloises - the black tobacco ones...

I'm putting together a new computer parts order for bitcoinstore.

Oh... yeah... peace of mind.

A Porsche - unfortunately not by me.  ;)
Check https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=143722.0

I renewed my Wordpress account for a year.

I've bought various things, but my top 3 would be...

3. Alpaca wool socks - I bought them mostly for bitcoinness reasons, they are a classic. But they turned out to be very good quality socks. You can hike for days and your feet don't smell. ???  Well worth the money. If they ever wear out I will buy more.


2. VPN Service - This one I add because of the purchasing experience. I goggled for VPN and Bitcoin, looked at a few. I went with an established business that took bitcoin, so everything was just like shopping online until the purchase. At checkout I gave only an email and and sent some bitcoin. I received an email with credentials. With a credit card I would have to give all my personal info to a company I don't know.

1. Recipe for Chinese food medicine - My wife likes cooking exotic dishes. So using google translate and bitcoin I found a person in China who sold me a PDF via escrow. The PDF contained a translation of traditional recipes. That was a moment when I understood why bitcoin could become one of the most powerful ideas in the world.

digital camera, new hard drive, ink for my printer, all on bitcoinstore.com.

a BFL asic (hopefully lol)

bitcoinfoundation membership

shares in bitcoin companies

That's brilliant!!!

Cookbooks of any kind are the worst books in the world to sell.  People only buy them - even the rare ones - for one or two recipes.  The last brick and mortar store I had, I wouldn't even carry them.  People buy the book, copy the recipe, and return it.  I had some maggot do that with an 1828 Louis Ude (the first book published with a recipe for the souffle): banned for life.  Fucker.  $800 book.

I've bought VPN services, dog tags (http://www.mydogtag.com/), the services of a talented web designer (http://www.blindmikey.com).  And I'd buy a lot using Bitcoin if more vendors offered that option.  And I wish to god I were paid in Bitcoin for all the overseas freelance jobs I do for which the banking fees are over $30 for a transaction of a few hundred dollars.

Lots of video games, VPN services, Web Hosting, a watch and other stuff like that.

Dollars  ;D

I bought a Yuengling a few days ago at a bar...

Video games and hard drives mostly (in terms of direct BTC->Goods).

some nerdy chicks are easy to impress with btc too! but hurry! soon it'll be yesterday's news

Harddrives, t-shirts, hosting, advertising, games, Casascius coins/gold bar, graphic design and a hoodie.

VPN, lots of Steam games, some hardware.

Very soon, you'll have a catalog full of stuffs to purchase!  ;)

Only some LTCs yet, but luckily before they took off.

This month:

    1. Casascius coins
    2. Yubikey from MTGOX - they just fixed the feature to let you pay in BTC
    3. Computer from my friend to setup a mining rig
    4. Money I owed a friend who's just moved to Australia

I think it interesting how my purchases branch more outward into the world as they progress from being bitcoin centric to more akin to normal trading. We're getting there...

I've bought:

1. two 10BTC silver coins from Casascius
2. Yubikey from MTGOX that they never shipped and ended up just getting my money back and using google authenticator.
3. A 1watt blue laser from http://www.wickedlasers.com.hk/arctic (http://www.wickedlasers.com.hk/arctic)
4. a bar of soap from http://www.baddogfarms.net/bitcoin-soap-bar.html (http://www.baddogfarms.net/bitcoin-soap-bar.html)

I like the idea of posting links to what you bought :D

1. Physical bitcoin from coinedbits
2. Bitcoin deposit card
3. Casascius coins
4. Steam games
5. Several music albums from coindl
6.. Clothing from amazon via buybtc gift card
7. Books from bitcoinin
8. Various donations (including open source software I use)
9. VPS hosting
10. Laptop from bitcoinstore
11. Namecoin domain name

That's all I can remember off the top of my head..

Completing an order with bitcoin is always a pleasure with a simple ctrl-c and a ctrl-p and awesome to watch the payment marked as received within seconds of sending. I'm about to cut up my credit card :)

+1

http://www.bittronic.com

Good service with good prices.

I tried to find laptops on that site but I couldn't and still can't.  Where are they, please?

https://www.bitcoinstore.com/information-technology/computer-systems.html?cat=5794 (https://www.bitcoinstore.com/information-technology/computer-systems.html?cat=5794)

VPN services from https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

Some resin "bitcoins" way back when: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=21885.0

The Humble Indie Bundle #3: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=46667.0

An Xbox 360 controller and a webcam from http://bitcoinstore.com/

MtGox wants me to verify my account as of very recently apparently, out of nowhere, but once that's done and I can withdraw some bitcoins I'll be buying a new keyboard from bitcoinstore as well.

Tipped and been tipped on reddit with the bitcointip bot.

I know there are others I'm forgetting, but that's what springs to mind.

i want to place an order at the bitcoin store sometime soon.

5 asics

So far just a bunch of honey.

I loved this thread and ended up quoting some of you in a piece about how people use BTC, hope that's ok.  http://simulacrum.cc/2013/04/15/what-do-people-actually-buy-with-bitcoin/

http://www.metartnetwork.com/bitcoin/ this will be my first purchase  ;D

Dropbox upgrade
precious metals
Car diagnostic cables
Donations (to around 5 organizations)
Domain names
ASICs
Computer hardware

I guess that would come under the broader "vice" category :)

i purchased some fiat once using localbitcoins, does that count?

VPN anonymizer, EUR bills, hosting.

US Dollars (which I traded back to BTC later)
Knowledge (bounty for help with setting up a server)
a game on steam
stocks on GLBSE
pirateat40 debt ::)
used as gift (well, not really somethign I bought, but then on the other hand I didn't have to buy a different gift...?)
most recently: home brewed honey wine (mead)

VPN service
Router from bitcoinstore
Bitcoin foundation membership
Entertainment (SDice and bitcoingem!)
SDICE and MPOE shares
...and if BTC goes higher then some gold

I'll be buying some trading software with btc in the future.

I buy U.S. dollars.

A t-shirt, some coffee beans, a brass bitcoin replica, a couple hand pies from a food cart, a couple meals at a vegetarian cafe, stocks on BTCT, an ASIC, Avalon chips, and VPN access

1st edition of "Bitcoin Magazine"

I've bought stock.

A waterbed, two turtles and a beer making kit (complete with barley malt and hops).

Beer kit?

You win! :)

Me too, the Bitcoin Magazine!  Looking forward to getting it in Korea.  Loved how easy the transaction was. 
Really rooting for Bitcoin to continue to succeed.

He had me at two turtles!

I've bought bars of silver, gemstones, video cards, and most important (to me):   an AR-15 :)

I bought 5 blotters of LSD back for 3 BTC when BTC was still at $20.

Blotters of LSD? I haven’t noticed anyone talk about LSD since tie-dye, bell bottoms and giant afros were in style. Try joining us in the current century and give 25I-NBOMe a test drive. It’s a better high without the flashbacks when you’re at work a couple of days later.

BTW: That's not unique; everyone has purchased drugs with Bitcoin. SR pretty much kick-started Bitcoin.

Ive been buying computer parts. So close to buying the last parts I need for my computer. All I need is about 0.2 btc, or for the price to go up a few more dollars :)