The Bitcoin in San Diego meetup group has another great guest speaker coming your way with Hieu Bui, CEO of BitDazzle.com, a local San Diego startup building an ecommerce website enabling easy buying and selling of products using Bitcoin.

The Meetup will be at Downtown Johnny Brown's in downtown San Diego, the first restaurant in the city of San Diego to accept Bitcoin. Come by, bring your wallets, buy some food with Bitcoin, and mix and mingle with some fellow folk in the Bitcoin space
http://www.bitdazzle.com

Meetup link
http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-in-San-Diego/events/161584752/?a=ra1_vl&_af_eid=161584752&_af=event

I'm happy to announce several health and wellness businesses in the city of San Diego area now taking Bitcoin.

Rio Vista Family Dentistry
Mission Valley Area
Dr. Joy Bonifacio and Dr. Raquel Reyes of Rio Vista Family Dentistry offer a family and cosmetic dental practice that is dedicated to affordable quality dental care in a comfortable setting.
http://www.riovistafamilydentistry.com

Jason Lasley of Pure Life
Hillcrest area
Jason bases his practice on beliefs in taking a holistic approach to health, healing, and wellness. His motivation is to help others become motivated to take control of their health through massage. He will combine a variety of techniques enabling me to customize treatments to each client’s specific needs.
Massage styles include Tui na, Eastern Deep Tissue, Sports, Shiatsu, Medical Circulatory/Swedish, and Prenatal.
http://purelifesandiego.com/
http://www.yelp.com/biz/pure-life-wellness-san-diego?nb=1

Amy Lathrop of Uluvacu
Little Italy area
Amy provides a range of massage and acupuncture services targetted at providing rejuvenation of the skin and whole body health and wellness. In addition to her practice she also teaches massage courses at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (PCOM)
http://uluvacu.com

Just outside of the city of San Diego, we also have the following businesses just recently taking Bitcoin.

Andrew Tibbitts DDS & Associates
Murrieta
Family General Dentistry
http://www.mymurrietadentist.com/

San Marcos Dental Center
San Marcos
Family General Dentistry
http://sanmarcosdentalcenter.com

San Diego is now in the forefront of "completing the circle" of the Bitcoin ecosystem providing a slew of bitcoin accepting merchants and businesses. Stay tuned as we'll have many more in the weeks to come. Here's our current list of merchants:
http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-in-San-Diego/messages/boards/thread/40450972/0/#113610172

The first cafe and first bar/restaurant to take Bitcoin in the city of San Diego are now live.

Pangea Bakery Cafe offers a hugh selection of baked goods, espresso drinks, and a few hot asian food items along with lots of tables with free wifi for those study & work sessions.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/pangea-bakery-cafe-san-diego?nb=1

Also visit Downtown Johnny Brown's in the heart of Downtown San Diego and grab a bite, brew, or cocktail and watch a game (it's playoff season) on their bigscreen TVs. They will also be hosting the next San Diego meetup event on Thursday, January 16 at 7 PM.
http://downtownjohnnybrowns.com/

Please swing by and show some support

Good luck. I emailed them a bug in their mobile app 4 weeks ago that prevented me from being able to use them as payment processors for 3 different merchants. Still no response.

Definitely appearing very unprofessional to me.

Absolutely. Anyone want to meet up for a bite to eat tue night at one of the restaurants that accept Bitcoin:

ie.

Cafe Berlin
4850 W Sunset Rd 4850, Suite 100-105,
Las Vegas, NV 89118
http://www.cafeberlinlv.com/

http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-in-San-Diego/events/148198322/

Join us this Thursday for a meet up in San Diego county's first restaurant to except bitcoin. Come on by for some great Italian and support the cause. 7:30pm

Please RSVP on the meetup link above

Spirito's Italian Diner
2508 El Camino Real, Carlsbad, CA

https://www.facebook.com/BBSalmonCo

I just bought about 2 pounds of beautiful wild salmon and cod this afternoon from Jarret Stevens at Bristol Bay during the Hillcrest Farmer's market in San Diego. Nice smooth transaction and Jarret is a huge fan of bitcoin. Please send him some support if you happen to be in the area. He works both the Hillcrest and Vista farmers markets.

Go bitcoin!

There have been a lot of comments that dooglus is possibly the same person/people who have taken alot of the winnings from Justdice. I have been racking my brain on a way to prove that he cannot leverage his knowledge of the server seeds, and I think I thought of something. I apologize if this has already been suggested and disproven as a nonfunctional idea. I tried to look through the forum posts, but with hundreds of pages, it is difficult to search through.

Here's the idea: what if, instead of a single server seed to generate all the random numbers for a user, the server seed is combined with the server clock time (in milliseconds), then hashed to give the random value. On every bet, the exact server clock time used to generate the random number is posted alongside with the bet and its results. In addition, the seeds are automatically changed on a regular basis, such as hourly or daily, and everyone's prior seeds can be publicly looked up.  if a player appears to have unreasonably good luck and high winnings, their seeds can be looked up and hashed with the server times of their bets to prove fairness of their results.

Thoughts?

Join us for a great night of mixing and mingling with other folks in the Bitcoin space here in San Diego.

This month, I'll be doing a quick presentation on how to use the Armory wallet and its off-line capabilities to secure your bitcoin. Armory provides some awesome off-line, cold storage capabilities which allow you to have a secure off-line wallet that you can still make payments from without exposing your private keys to the network.

Those new to bitcoin are welcome to come and learn what this amazing technology/economy is all about. Anyone looking to trade is welcome to come and do a mini Satoshi Square. And as usual, everyone else is welcome to come by and banter about cryptocurrencies and the future of money.

Paul

http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-in-San-Diego/events/145551522/
https://www.facebook.com/events/570853006314435/

Conscious Cookery (non-GMO and sustainable grains and teas) is NOW accepting bitcoin for their products. You can order off their website for delivery or for pickup at the San Diego Hillcrest farmers market. Starting Nov 1, you will be able to pay using bitcoin in person at the actual farmers market. They just aren't set up quite yet. Please show them some support

http://www.consciouscookery.com/
https://www.facebook.com/consciouscookery

For up-to-date news on Bitcoin adoption in San Diego, please join the meetup and/or facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/sandiegobitcoin
http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-in-San-Diego

Any bitcoiners in San Diego, please join us for a night of great food, drinks (full bar), and talking shop about Bitcoin. Newbies and experienced bitcoin users all welcome. We'll have a semi-private room in the back.

http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-in-San-Diego/events/137893792/

Cheers,
Paul

In what form are you giving away mBits as gifts? I haven't found a good method to print out a bitcoin gift card that I can give people.

It would be awesome if I could print a handful of biz card sized .05 bitcoin gift cards which have a URL to a wallet like blockchain.info as well as an awesome intro into bitcoin complete with links to where to purchase stuff with it.

Come on by to California and San Diego and ill give all the help I can. not much here yet but we're working on a few restaurants and cafes. 

Upcoming events for the Bitcoin in San Diego Meetup group.

Tue Sep 23 at Lestats Coffee House 7pm

Thu Oct 4 at Ebisu Sushi at 7pm
 Ebisu owners are open to listening to bitcoiners pitch the merits of accepting bitcoin. Please come out and support this event and help get this business on board. We'd love to see them be the first restaurant in San Diego to accept bitcoin.

I'm a strong believer that the next wave of bitcoin adoption will come from brick and mortar stores starting to accept it. This will cause more people to see the transactions in person and see the "Bitcoin Accepted Here" signs posted in stores, restaurants, etc. I also feel like it "should" be an easy sell to business owners. Ie. save on transaction fees and open up to a whole network of bitcoin owners. But I definitely get more strange "Jehovah's witness" looks than legitimate curiosity.

For those that have successfully convinced a shop to take bitcoin, what sales pitch did you use?

I'd love to get collective input on the matter and maybe even references to media that have been most effective.

Using from the US with no problems. I've been depositing USD via wire transfer and I usually get credited within a couple days. Withdrawals via bitcoin have had no issues. Post within a few minutes. Highly recommended.

I've been using their instant buy feature ever since it came out. I've done over a dozen trades with no problem although I did have a purchase get reversed after a few days once. It was using a 2nd, new bank account that I had just added. It's been awesome otherwise. I wish their 1% fee was lower but that's the price you pay for the convenience of not having to wire money.