We all want more of our local bars, restaurants and shops to accept bitcoin, right?

Bitpay should offer an incentive for bitcoin enthusiasts to encourage their local businesses to accept bitcoin.

There could be a standard bitpay leaflet with a space for a unique code for each person doing the leg work and perhaps a 0.1 btc bounty for each merchant signed up.

Your thoughts?

If you're new to all this and wanting to buy bitcoins on localbitcoins, ignore the 'buy bitcoins online' section and instead go to 'post a trade'. By doing so, you will get a much better deal. eg, today's cheapest 'buy online' price is £495.94 (GBP), whereas you can get them for £478.10  by posting a trade.

Hope this helps someone. Wish I had worked it out sooner. DOH!

I am a UK based sculptor using a foundry in Berkeley CA. Over the last 15 years I have paid $100,000's in foundry bills and been ripped off every time I pay their invoices by the intermediary banks. I want to try paying in bitcoins bit I'm fairly sure they'll want paying in dollars and won't want the hassle of setting up a bitpay account just for one client. Is there a way to use bitcoins for the transfer and have dollars paid into their bank account?

I posted this on facebook with a private key QR code. If we all did the same, I think it would generate a lot of interest

Hi to all my facebook friends!

Here's a little experiment.

This is a Christmas present. If you know, or can find out what it is then you can collect your present. As with a cake, you could eat it all yourself, but it is Christmas, so I hope you will take a little then pass the remainder on to your own facebook friends.

If you got a slice then reply below.

I have read a lot about security and it seems to be the Achilles heel of bitcoin. I read about the Trezor, which sounds like a great idea but it occurred to me that a cheap smartphone would do the same job if the sim card is removed as soon as the bitcoins are in the wallet.

Any thoughts?

Apologies if this has already been discussed.

Hi all,

I've just started accepting bitcoins in payment for my sculptures. Have a look at www.david-goode.com



Hope you see something you fancy.

Cheers,

Dave