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What and where can I spend a crypt? We have found places for you that legally allow you to pay in cryptocurrencies:

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JMbullion - selling coins, including precious metals. In this case, the rate in Bitcoins is more profitable than when paying with a card (and a bit less profitable than with a payment by direct transfer of funds to a bank account).

REEDS - an opportunity to buy bijoux for Bitcoin. Any product without restrictions.

Overstock is a major online retailer headquartered in the United States. Offers a huge number of products, including products for the home, fitness, various clothes and all sorts of accessories. In 2017, the company launched Medici Ventures, specializing in the blockchain, and also entered into a partnership with an exchange platform to allow its customers to purchase goods using more than forty cryptocurrencies. Overstock donates 4% of its income from bitcoins to various funds promoting the use of cryptocurrency.

New Egg is an online store of electronic equipment, various products for home and fitness, various software, as well as a marketplace. Allows you to pay Bitcoin, but with a number of restrictions. For example, you can not buy gift certificates, pay for subscriptions, use the pre-order.

Openbazaar is an online service similar to bulletin boards, only here it is possible to pay with a crypt.

Fangamer is another online flea market.

HTC - a well-known mobile phone manufacturer has provided the opportunity to purchase the HTC Exodus model for Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Realestate is an international real estate service with settlements in cryptocurrencies. Earlier they accepted Bitcoin exclusively, but now they have expanded the list of accepted currencies.

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Bitcoin.travel - flights, rental apartments and hotels are available.

Cheap AIR - ticket sales. With no restrictions.

Expedia is a travel service that provides a wide range of services, ranging from booking flights to paying for a cruise. Everything can be purchased for Bitcoin.

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PWC - a large consulting company accepts Bitcoin in the form of payment for an audit.

Microsoft - also allow you to purchase products on their platforms, including for the Xbox.

Gyft, eGifter - all sorts of gift cards for Bitcoin, also with their help, you can pay for your purchase on Amazon, so that indirectly you can pay with a crypt from this giant.

VPN - dozens of services offer to pay for their services for cryptocurrency.

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Suicidegirls is an online community that prefers alternative beauty and indie culture from around the world. Here you can subscribe for Bitcoin.

PornHub - judging by the news began to take payment in Verge. There is no direct evidence and we cannot assert the existence of such a method.

Education
Nicosia is the first university in the world to start accepting cryptocurrency located in Cyprus and offering to pay for bitcoin education.

Lucerne university - you can also pay for your studies at the Swiss University of Applied Arts and Sciences.

ESMT Berlin is a business school. The first educational institution in Germany, which allows you to pay for education in cryptocurrency.
King’s School NY - the College of Art in New York, USA, also accepts alternative payment methods.

It is wonderful to see that crypto currency is being accepted as a payment method.
It just shows that we could use crypto as a regular currency in the future and pay almost everything with it.
I also just want to add up that here in the Philippines we could use Bitcoin to pay for our Bills and buy loads and more.
I hope that in the future we could also hear that it could also be used to pay bills in other countries as well.

More results mean more use of our crypto and it is widely being used today with different offers and products. I used to pay something in bills or buy some credit game card with my own crypto but now, it looks like they most of these services already accepting crypto. It is a good way to expand and share the idea of crypto through advertising to them. Most people are just lurking on that services that you have mentioned. ;D

Considering the latest trends, it can be noted that cryptocurrency has strengthened its position and gradually occupies the retail trade sector. There are more and more outlets on the world map ready to accept Bitcoin as a means of payment. The CIS countries are not far behind, where Bitcoin is also gradually turning into a full payment instrument.

You can easily buy gold bullion, bars, and chain using your hard earned Bitcoin. Also, you can buy air travel, real estate and transportation with cryptocurrency quite easily. I would suggest doing some research regarding your options. There are many resources online which could help you out.

That's the most convenient part of crypto and today there's so many ways to spend it as long as you are willing to spend. I recently use my coins to pay for my utilities and its really good to have such technology where you can use conveniently. Though we are still on progress, we are now enjoying much of the privilege and for sure it will grow more.

tried to look one of the services on OP but can't find it on google. looks like my searching skill is not good enough. maybe OP can add the link for that services? would love to try by myself later.

Those are some much known services that accept crypto on their services. Apart from the same there were more and more service renders with bitcoin acceptance. Rather than trying the service you could go with your needs and find a person rendering the same or some firm rendering it with bitcoin acceptance. This gives a happiness as it has got what you desired.

Though you can't directly pay BTC on Amazon, we can use 3rd party services like Purse.io to purchase from Amazon using bitcoin, and with a discount too! Not sure why Purse.io isn't getting as much usage as I thought it would. I guess some people aren't willing to spend BTC at these prices; which is completely understandable.

This is the cryptocurrency that we have witnessed since 2009. We did developed. Look at those stores that accepts bitcoin as a payment, they are just adding in numbers. I wonder what's the next jump we'll be having after this. 

You better to buy crypto on country that already legalize crypto such as Japan , netherland, and some more.
You can also have better option some purchase something with crypto.

Yes, since crypto act like currency you can purchase almost anything, also the current value quite stable means most people still interest on crypto

are people getting lazier? :D
the correct word is "cryptocurrency" but they call it "crypto" by mistake and now "crypt", what is next? "Crrr"? i'm joking but it is funny how the word is being cut short in weird ways.

try looking in one of those big lists of places that you can spend bitcoin online, like lists coinbase or bitpay have of their merchants or sites like coindesk publish.
for me the best thing i saw last year was a couple of big shops mostly selling computer hardware to accept bitcoin in my country which is  showing how the adoption has been growing here.

Earlier it was purse.io which made its early support to users make use of bitcoin on all form of shopping needs online. Now more such cryptocurrency supportive platforms have come into existence. Compared to an year ago scenario the adoption level, acceptance level and uasge have increased big. Now all that necessary is the continued usage to make more business and service renders get into bitcoin usage.

Just make a crypto card and you will be able to pay with crypto for anything. Anyway, even the most popular services that accept bitcoin usually do it via bitpay so in both cases there will be some 3rd party between you and seller. OP just named some of the most popular companies.
Btw I'm also curious how much money did mentioned companies received via crypto.

This is by far, gave a good break for verge likewise pornhub has huge community that really help them in a way.

Obviously, this depend on one's preference however using bitcoin in purchasing you simply help the community to raise awareness and miners as well.

If Russia creates its own currency, how does it mean Russia has embraced Bitcoin. If it was really the case the country would have adopted it directly or at least accepted it, through regulations if necessary.
What I know is Russia is far to embrace BTC. Central Bank of Russia Plans on Limiting Cryptocurrency Trading (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5121583.0). It's only goal is to  have a crytptocurrency could be useful to carry out “sensitive activity on behalf of the state (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/bitcoin-latest-updates-putin-cryptocurrency-russia-sanctions-blockchain-tech-sergei-glazev-a8138021.html)


That's what I call using BTC truly as a currency, you're lucky I would like to be able to have the same use. Unfortunately I have to convert to fiat sooner or later, or to buy gift cards, or stuff on the web like servers or domain names. At a time I used Purse.io to buy items on Amazon since I'm a regular shopper but I stopped I don't want to end with an item purchased with stolen CC or whatever. And there is not really an alternative to it.

It's always a pleasure to see when they accept crypto. Proves cryptocurrencies have a chance to succeed globally.

You can also look for more crypto merchants with these directories:

https://coinyspace.com/directory/
https://coinmap.org/
https://acceptbitcoin.cash/ (site about BCH but they list other coins as well)

For Bitcoin, I recently compiled a list here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5122655

There are so many listed in OP but take note, that's not all of it. You can buy a lot of things using cryptocurrency. Even during a deal, if a person wanted cryptocurrency as payment, then cryptocurrency it is will be given to him as payment.

Oh, it will, this is not the day for that but soon.

The development of crypto currencies is indeed increasingly rapid and can now be used for payment or purchase transactions, but only for those who have crypto currencies and not everyone can use them.
and in my opinion cryptocurrency will not be able to replace fiat or real money and if both of them go together it might happen, because it is not easy to get rid of fiat and not as easy as it says, and there will definitely be pros and cons if it really happens.

Bitcoin can be used as a means of payment but only in certain locations and only in a few countries. but this is very good news for us because small steps can lead bitcoin towards a large scale public recognition. so we must support everything related to crypto and for all progress. with the way we use crypto for all our buying and selling activities.

Government had a big role to play in adoption and the usage of bitcoin its quite interesting to see a lot of organisations, institutions etc accepting bitcoin as a means of payment.
The signs is very obvious that bitcoin had come to stay and will enjoy massive patronage in the future in as much the government allows it without any ban and regulations.
If most of the restrictions is removed then the popularity of bitcoin will increase thus paves way for its adoption  as a means of payment.

Slowly but surely bitcoin is going mainstream and the things you can buy with it increases as well over time. Back then, there are only limited vendors who accept btc for their services and products. Now, some large companies are accepting not just btc but other crypto coins like ethereum and litecoin.

Yes, crypto is everywhere, not even in the online marketplace, but there are also roadside shops. But unfortunately, currently there are still not many who use this bitcoin as a payment, only in the online store.

But I think if bitcoin is a payment on one of the biggest platforms like Amazon, Apple, etc. maybe it will be more value in terms of price

I'm going to talk about my country.

in my country I can only buy refills for my cell phone.

that means there are thousands of things that I can not buy with bitcoin in my country. Using bitcoin as a means of payment in many countries around the world remains a big dream hard to reach. On the day that I wake up and go buy coffee, bread, milk, cheese, meat, clothes, car, fruits... using bitcoin as a means of payment in my country I will be very happy

I can buy refills for the cell phone too but, I still do that by online and make the order via web, and then I send the amount. But to use for buying some product in store offline, I am afraid I cannot do that because the offline store doesn't know about bitcoin. But I find that in a local online store, I can buy with bitcoin, bch, and litecoin. But I never try that because I still comfort to buy using fiat ;D

someday bitcoin will be in your hands to spend in your daily life, look forward to the government part of your country approving it as other countries that have agreed bitcoin can be spent every day. all shops and supermarkets will accept bitcoin as a tool payment, don't be discouraged mate hope is always there

I agree. This is a matter of time. Soon the whole world will use cryptocurrency to pay for dinner at a restaurant or buy a car. But since the government does not contribute to this, then you need to wait for the global implementation.

Bitcoin has been already a payment method for a long now.though it has limited areas but yet available

Haven’t you uses Coins.Ph mate?you can buy Load and Pay Bills from your cryptocurrency,from Bitcoin,bitcoincash,ethereum and ripple
YEah hoping thay it will happen worldwide mate

Stores were hesitant to accept crypto for the first time, but when they happen to knew it in a perfect time I think appreciations will blow out. Buying something using crypto is a great way to utilize digital currency being merged to our physical activities, and most specially this brought a convenient way of life for all of us. You won't struggle queing up for counter payments or even paying bills locally using physical money. Everything turned out to be virtual spending, and that's brilliant idea of introducing modern technology at its best.

Bitcoin dominance is spread and very fast at that although I came into cryptocurrency late last year but from research bitcoin started gaining more recognition from early 2017 and this has been on the increase although the price has not been following suit.
I can proudly say I started my poultry farming not to long ago and I bought some chicks from a dealer with bitcoin.
Possibly in the future I would build my investment through bitcoin

So many sectors such as the real estate have option in to the use of bitcoin as a payment method and today one can buy so many things using bitcoin as a payment method bitcoin has gain public adoption and at that we use it for our daily activities, I love using bitcoin for payments because of the low fee in carrying out transactions on the bitcoin network. So bitcoin is becoming a global currency.

Depends on the confirmation of the other party involved with the trade. Yes, it can be used for payment method most of the time but there are some cases that the other party won't allow it to happen. Probably because, he's not fond of taking bitcoin as payment and/or he doesn't like the volatility of bitcoin, he's not a supporter of bitcoin. The community keeps growing and growing yearly and the price seemed to be low for the meanwhile but it's not the indication that the market isn't growing.

Here in my country Nigeria, there isn't much yet we can directly buy from crypto except we exchange it first into fiat before spending. Although I must confess that the crypto awareness is spreading fast in Nigeria, there is still more to be done before we square up with Europe and the rest of the world on this direct use thing. I look forward to such a time.

For now, I just hold it back and I have bitcoin at that time when the price is still high, and I buy hoping bitcoin will go up but in reality the price drops dramatically and I feel disappointed.
so for now I'm still holding it back waiting for the price of bitcoin to rise before my initial price returns, so I don't buy it even though currently the price of bitcoin is low.

It's not that bad to spend some of your Bitcoin as long as it is worth it. These days the price of it compared to the reigning ATH is low so I don't think it would be worth it using it as a payment method. It is not that it is a waste but you might regret it when the price pumps, still it is your decision that matters and if you really need it, you should do it. It is not that I can't buy anything using my Bitcoin but the thing is that I don't want to use them.

Limited use of bitcoin also makes many users reluctant to use bitcoin more often for spending. I myself believe that users will use bitcoin more often when bitcoin has been received in many places, they will definitely use bitcoin when it happens


but we must be aware that there are many other competitors, such as online wallets issued by third party platforms, now that such payments have become popular, bitcoin must be able to compete to be used by many people

Many website now and even stores online and to real world are accepting bitcoin payment it is good start and I believe it will increase more the wbesite and others accepting bitcoin for the payment. I think they see the potential of using payment system of bitcoin and bitcoin is easy to use compared to the other kinds of payment system. Good starts for the bitcoin to rise the value.

Since my native country not yet accept bitcoin so I can't use it offline source in my country. But yes, I can spend it online throw internet like OP described. I believe bitcoin will be accepted everywhere in near future. Because, bitcoin isn't just only a coin name, it's a community and revulsion. However at least we are able to spend it offline either online. Slowly worlds are encouraging to accept bitcoin and we will see another revolution in future. Let's help the spread word about bitcoin and increase awareness.

In what country you are residing ?  Most countries nowadays including the poorer ones do already legalize and started using cryptos offline . you may not find all stores that accept cryptos but there is atleast 1 to 2 stores locally that will try to accept it  .  or maybe you are not only aware with it ?  Anyway  you can use some store locator or you can also use google  . type in the keyword crypro + store + your country   .  goodluck hunting  .

This list will expand ad infinitum. Right now you can use debit cards backed with crypto, but I still feel they are a bit on the expensive side and not enough options are available for consumers. I'd like to see more flexibility with cold storage and multi-wallet options, and lower fees. It's only a matter of time before this goes mainstream in all developed countries.

The list will increase in numbers as the adoption continues.
It's only a small list but with partnerships from our local exchanges, we can use our bitcoin for the products and services.
In general we cannot expect that big businesses will just easily accept bitcoin as there is a risk issue, the price is volatile and they might not be able to control the risk which would result to loss in business operation.

Not now i guess but big online stores like amazon would likely pick up crypto and allow usage of it in purchases. Today i'm limited to pirchasing phone credits and a few online purchases but the wallet i'm using converts the btc to fiat so i can say there aren't much yet thst accepting straight bitcoins or crypto.

Its a start for crypto adoption and it mostly be adoptable in small business institutions in the future. May the risk at this we're so high but it will be lessen when there is a support from the government especially for legalization approval. By this thing, merchants and company owners will give trust crypto and do accept it as a mode of payment.

But I think it will be hard for merchants to accept Bitcoin as a means of payment for either their products or services without any kind of a third party that converts Bitcoin to fiat. Its been a decade since Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto and until today only a few percentages of people in this world know about it but I guess in the future it will be widespread and mass adoption will occur. :D

How does this work for some place where the bitcoin regulations aren't yet defined? My country doesn't have such retailers so the only option is to buy using bitcoin from an overseas business. This leads to custom issues as it is seen as an import.
Another headache is the duty that has to be paid. If the item cost is limited to a certain amount and is marked as a gift, then it is allowed without duty. I am currently trying to put this into practice for my first bitcoin purchase.

It'd be really good if OP can include links to the businesses/ websites mentioned in your list.