Brazil has more than 150 stores that accept bitcoin

[DavidoAlto]

That are allot of shops withc accepting bitcoins right now and i dont think just 150 will be the total amount because every shop is at the right sight of the country i think there will come more and more shops and not only in brazil off course.

Yeah, for sure they will expand more on their shops and it would be great to have it international, imagine that you can pay gas with bitcoins!

[NordicRanger]

Amazing news! But I think this is pretty old and the development is even further right now, we should keep this kind of news stickied or something because it just shows how big bit coins are getting..

[DomesticTrader]

For such a country that are allot of shops witch accepts bitcoins you know or are it all bitcoin shops where you can buy thing just with bitcoins i dont actually know what they mean with bitcoin shops because in my country there are non of them.

[DavidoAlto]

Thats amazing, i hope there were alot of news articles about it aswell because an increase in popularity really helps the bitcoin to globalize which is what we need right now.

[Galiatram]

Good development for south american bitcoin users. Now if we can get some more shops in Europe  that would be amazing. and I think steam is starting to accept it too or atleast soonish havent checked so thats quite big too

[sishendaoye]

Achievement unlocked 150 shops in a single country. Anyways that's very cool to see and read about, kinda curious as to how the shop owners think and for what reason they are accepting it. Do they also firmly believe that bitcoin will stay valuable?

[BitcoinSupremo]

Achievement unlocked 150 shops in a single country. Anyways that's very cool to see and read about, kinda curious as to how the shop owners think and for what reason they are accepting it. Do they also firmly believe that bitcoin will stay valuable?

I think they are accepting it because bitcoin is highly flexible , they can exchange it really fast through an exchanger to USD and we know the conversion rate of USD to brazilian currency so the shop owners must also firmly believe to get an increase in price and they may win even more if this increase happens soon. Looks like these owners of these shops are really smart and visionary people and I hope they achieve their goals and congrats to them for making possible 150 bitcoin stores from a single country, no matter how big this country is.

[didingrirty]

It is really nice to see that, i hope other countries will accept bitcoins too

[TheUltraElite]

Well this does not help me at all because my country does not have even a single local bitcoin accepting bitcoin store. Bigger e-Commrce companies do accept it but still the local markets have never even heard of it.

I tried to explain the concpet of decentralised currency to them once and the store owner repiled "Sir, do you want to by anything at all? Or are you just wasting our time??"

[NordicRanger]

We grow from 30 to 150 in 6 months

That's a really good growth. Currently There're 29 "businesses" who accept bitcoin in Turkey (I think there're more but we may not be able to track them) Some of them are listed on coinmap.org
(Turkish List is here: http://coin-turk.com/turkiyede-bitcoin-kabul-eden-yerler/ )

I hope there'll be such jump in Turkey too.

First we need to build our coalition, then make pressure to government. Bitcoin has no where in Turkish law, they can't explain its situation too.

Brazil has a law for Bitcoin? How do stores keep their Bitcoin and how do they pay taxes?

In Brazil, we don't have specific law for bitcoins.
The stores can to receive in bitcoin, but it need to do an invoice in BRL.

This suggests there is a very good condition fot growing bitcoin and they may usr it to rscape payong costs

Brazil has more than 150 stores that accept bitcoins and we are here in europe and dont even have more than 10 near in my area how is that possible i dont think that there are allot of people are happy about it.

[dEJAVU95]

Wow this image is one of the best i have seen this year. Having so many shops accepting bitcoins makes me proud. Very proud that we are part of something that is getting bigger and bigger every day.

[InsideBjorn]

We grow from 30 to 150 in 6 months

That's a really good growth. Currently There're 29 "businesses" who accept bitcoin in Turkey (I think there're more but we may not be able to track them) Some of them are listed on coinmap.org
(Turkish List is here: http://coin-turk.com/turkiyede-bitcoin-kabul-eden-yerler/ )

I hope there'll be such jump in Turkey too.

First we need to build our coalition, then make pressure to government. Bitcoin has no where in Turkish law, they can't explain its situation too.

Brazil has a law for Bitcoin? How do stores keep their Bitcoin and how do they pay taxes?

In Brazil, we don't have specific law for bitcoins.
The stores can to receive in bitcoin, but it need to do an invoice in BRL.

Why does brazil has so many stores where you can use the bitcoins does they have so  many people who have so meny bitcoins or is it just new in the brazil and they thnk that there will be allot of peopel intersted into the bitcoin i dont think so!

[Altynbekova]

It stays a lot and I think other country's should follow also, Brazil is really taking the lead with this for sure, no doubts about that.
The bitcoin has a good future so in other country's it also will grow massively for sure.

I don't think Brazil is taking the lead, alot of other countries are accepting it in even more places.
Also I know of countries that let you order food with it! and even pay the hairdresser. Anyways this is good development though hope it will keep growing.

[NordicRanger]

I am interested in if these stores actually have web stores aswell. Because online shopping is bigger than local shopping nowadays even though that sucks for the economy.
But nonetheless great development and glad to see it happen, now let's get more online stores to do it aswell cause they shouldn't have a reason not to!

[phreaky]

Good going Brazil. People might have huge demand for bitcoin in the future, as brazilians have a declining currency, somehow stringent capital controls, spend many hours on the internet and most people own a smartphone

That is pretty nice that Brazil already has that many stores that accept Bitcoin but Brazil also is a big country.
I think that Bitcoin has to focus on other countries as well because they have not reached all of them.

[romero121]

During the early days of bitcoin as well other digital currencies existence, they were mostly used for illegal purposes. As brazil has got increased number of illegal business which provides the acceptance of bitcoin. This has gained popularity among common men too which has lead to such a huge number of stores to accept bitcoin.

[Doamader]

During the early days of bitcoin as well other digital currencies existence, they were mostly used for illegal purposes. As brazil has got increased number of illegal business which provides the acceptance of bitcoin. This has gained popularity among common men too which has lead to such a huge number of stores to accept bitcoin.

The last time i checked those stores it were in the general developers companies accepting bitcoin and some laywers, nothing to do with the ilegal stuffs that are conected to bitcoin.

[Caladonian]

During the early days of bitcoin as well other digital currencies existence, they were mostly used for illegal purposes. As brazil has got increased number of illegal business which provides the acceptance of bitcoin. This has gained popularity among common men too which has lead to such a huge number of stores to accept bitcoin.

The last time i checked those stores it were in the general developers companies accepting bitcoin and some laywers, nothing to do with the ilegal stuffs that are conected to bitcoin.

yes and its showing that bitcoin now is more popular to be treated as a currency we will expect more and more country to adopt the system and not only brazil but most likely those country that have already idea about it.

[batang_bitcoin]

Good going Brazil. People might have huge demand for bitcoin in the future, as brazilians have a declining currency, somehow stringent capital controls, spend many hours on the internet and most people own a smartphone

That is pretty nice that Brazil already has that many stores that accept Bitcoin but Brazil also is a big country.
I think that Bitcoin has to focus on other countries as well because they have not reached all of them.

I think bitcoin is going to be better in Brazil because of that large country bitcoin is able to make adoption with that country. And for sure the people
there are already enjoying the use of bitcoin and since the population of Brazil is big they are able to make some good transactions there and as they shop it is very convenient at all no need to bring more fiat.

[Cozynunu]

Brazil has allot of people who use bitcoins and that is the main reason why they have so many stores where you can pay with bticoins an other explenation i dont know.