A possibility to travel without your wallet (just with Bitcoins)?

[imadmirer]

Well I have been thinking of this possibility of expansion of Bitcoins use to such an extent that one may simply travel with hands in one's pockets! That should be level at which the ascendance of cryptocurrency should be and towards which we as a community should work.

The very fact of travelling will include more than one fields of business into its fold. Flights, eateries, pharmacies, hotels, rooms, restaurants, shopping stores, movie theatres, book stores, gyms and fitness centres, taxis and buses. This is not just a dream but a goal that we should try to reach.

I am not necessarily promoting a cashless & cardless society but cash & cards can simply be an alternative. All you may need with you is your cell phone and ID card to move all around the world. Into such a morning of sun shine, I am looking at. But gradually what turns out is such a cashless and cardless society with eases lives.

The world has become more and more cohesive and smaller. Getting knitted closely together. Like the evolution of species, cryptocurrency has evolved from various different ideas to a superior manifestation. And today though slowly but steadily we are finding the shift towards it. It is in near future that we may find the world being defined by whole new parameters of currency, economy and development to which cryptocurrency and especially bitcoin will be an integral part.  

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[josegr4ham]

I would love to see this time coming. The time I can travel just with my smartphone. No wallets, no cash, no nothing

[bug.lady]

Wow I said it my earlier post, but I really feel like I am back in 2015.

That was the headlines in 2015 that there was this couple who travelled around with only bitcoin... It seems there were more places accepting bitcoin then than now.

And fast forward to 2018, and again people are all hot about the possibility to travel with bitcoin.

EDIT: to be more to the point, maybe the right question to ask is why didn't it happen yet? There were 3 years in between!

[bitfocus]

Possible and I would love to see that day in near future, but right now you can also use your Bitcoin with Crypto Debit Card Services.

[baby222]

I have been to a hotel on a mini break in Romania and they accepted bitcoin. But of course, my travel agency made sure they accept bitcoin because this was my condition

[Mr.Smithers]

it would be great and I hope it will come one day. Meanwhile, back to the reality, I wouldn't go travelling to Asia and specifically Vietnam, because it has ban all the usage and distribution of cryptocurrencies and has very heavy fines and jail time. You see, in Asia you may start your journey all right but then the law changes and you go to jail one day.

I don't know why, but it seems that Asian countries are most volatile in regard to their approach to bitcoin. Compare Japan and Vietnam. China radically changes their attitude every second month.

So for this dream to change to reality: I would say there is a long way to go ..

[bitllionaire]

Possible and I would love to see that day in near future, but right now you can also use your Bitcoin with Crypto Debit Card Services.

Although the possibalities is always there with cradit card, if a person have his cradit card he does not need for cash to to have with him. But if we talk a bitcoin, as bitcoin is not yet too much popular and people still do not have the facilities to use bitcoin for shopping in offline shops therefore it will take a little more time when we will become able to use bitcoin for shopping even in our local shops.

[September11Myth]

If all you need to travel is your phone, what would happen if they steal your phone? A plan B seems to be necessary IMHO...

[lite]

Possible and I would love to see that day in near future, but right now you can also use your Bitcoin with Crypto Debit Card Services.

Actually someone has already travelled with just bitcoin and $100 in his pocket. you can read his story here(https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2219153.0).

If all you need to travel is your phone, what would happen if they steal your phone? A plan B seems to be necessary IMHO...

Of course! there's should be a plan b, carrying cards wouldn't hurt.

[bering]

it took plenty of process to bitcoin can reach this achievement because to travel around the world use bitcoin then the particular countries should be fully support and facilitate people to use bitcoin from ticket airline tickets, hotels or restaurants and i don't think we will see it in the near future because most of countries in this world trying to against bitcoin

[salterious]

This is how I typically imagine the future 5 years from now in a way that lives like today but more convient with the integration of cryptos. Crypto right now looks like Internet and email in the 90s a horrible idea and a tough one at that. If we can make it mainstream enough that anybody can easily open an account and use it, that is when we are going to have killer adoption. I want to live in a world one day where I can travel across a border with 12 words and that can be my bitcoin...oh wait we already do .

[Booooooo]

This is a very interesting idea, but is it feasible? I read on this forum about a man who managed to travel only with bitcoins, but I would never have done that. Well, or for an emergency, I would take dollars with me.

[Vatimins]

Well I have been thinking of this possibility of expansion of Bitcoins use to such an extent that one may simply travel with hands in one's pockets! That should be level at which the ascendance of cryptocurrency should be and towards which we as a community should work.

The very fact of travelling will include more than one fields of business into its fold. Flights, eateries, pharmacies, hotels, rooms, restaurants, shopping stores, movie theatres, book stores, gyms and fitness centres, taxis and buses. This is not just a dream but a goal that we should try to reach.

I am not necessarily promoting a cashless & cardless society but cash & cards can simply be an alternative. All you may need with you is your cell phone and ID card to move all around the world. Into such a morning of sun shine, I am looking at. But gradually what turns out is such a cashless and cardless society with eases lives.

The world has become more and more cohesive and smaller. Getting knitted closely together. Like the evolution of species, cryptocurrency has evolved from various different ideas to a superior manifestation. And today though slowly but steadily we are finding the shift towards it. It is in near future that we may find the world being defined by whole new parameters of currency, economy and development to which cryptocurrency and especially bitcoin will be an integral part.  

     Honestly, I really do think that this is such a good idea/dream since I too have been wishing for this to happen without having to be forced to choose sides whether go all cashless/crypto or just fiat alone. it would be really nice to be free to decide what we really want to use in our everyday lives. But the sad thing is reality just won't allow this to happen. there are just too many things that are involved that clearly hinders this kind of situation from really happening in real life. The biggest problem is the banks and governments, then there's the availability of internet for all people. The fees, the confirmations time frames, and so much more.

But still, I am really not losing hope that someday this will really happen. although i may not be able to reach that moment, I still want to believe that it will really happen.

[audaciousbeing]

Well I have been thinking of this possibility of expansion of Bitcoins use to such an extent that one may simply travel with hands in one's pockets! That should be level at which the ascendance of cryptocurrency should be and towards which we as a community should work.

The very fact of travelling will include more than one fields of business into its fold. Flights, eateries, pharmacies, hotels, rooms, restaurants, shopping stores, movie theatres, book stores, gyms and fitness centres, taxis and buses. This is not just a dream but a goal that we should try to reach.

I am not necessarily promoting a cashless & cardless society but cash & cards can simply be an alternative. All you may need with you is your cell phone and ID card to move all around the world. Into such a morning of sun shine, I am looking at. But gradually what turns out is such a cashless and cardless society with eases lives.

The world has become more and more cohesive and smaller. Getting knitted closely together. Like the evolution of species, cryptocurrency has evolved from various different ideas to a superior manifestation. And today though slowly but steadily we are finding the shift towards it. It is in near future that we may find the world being defined by whole new parameters of currency, economy and development to which cryptocurrency and especially bitcoin will be an integral part.  

What you propose are already being done it might not be internationally but within a region its being done. I attended one crypto meet up sometimes last year and one of the speakers who came from oversea was saying it loud and clear that all he need to carry is his crypto card and that  settles it without any stress.

But the concern here is not the possibility but the convenience at this time because every factors are just working against that. Today, the availability of crypto cards are being frustrated either by the service providers or the fees to make that happen and I cannot just travel with my bitcoin in my mobile app and start looking for where to exchange to the local fiat in other to be able to live comfortably. I guess at this time, we have to live with what we have.

[rampage101]

Unfortunately, payment by bitcoin is not so popular in the world. And bank cards are not accepted everywhere. And it's very risky to go with only the bitcoins, I still for the classic payment in cash dollars (or change to local currency).

[armenwl]

Possible and I would love to see that day in near future, but right now you can also use your Bitcoin with Crypto Debit Card Services.

I dont think so! If only trevel to europe, becouse crypto cards accepted just in europe! in other counties it doesn't work!

[Glutius]

This is a good idea if you travel to major tourist destinations, major cities and countries where bitcoin is adopted. With other interesting, but slightly technologically behind countries, things are much more complicated. It will be very difficult for you if you are with only one bitcoin-card. You can stay without an overnight stay and not be able to pay the fare.

[darkangel11]

If all you need to travel is your phone, what would happen if they steal your phone? A plan B seems to be necessary IMHO...

And what happens if somebody steals your wallet? It's actually much worse because they can use your cards to do multiple contactless payments without the necessity to enter pin number and drain your account to the limit. They can take your ID and run to a place where they're giving out small loans with no collateral and take $500 in your name in the matter of minutes. And of course they can take all your cash.
It's much easier to steal a wallet because your phone is being used all the time to check the time, play music, take pictures.

[menggay16]

From now there is "NO" Possibility with that.

Cryptocurrency is not regulated in several countries where Crypto is open, but it does not matter what you say. If its possible to fully regulate the Crypto in all countries that related for this, It may be a good news for everyone who knows Crypto.

[samcrypto]

Possible and I would love to see that day in near future, but right now you can also use your Bitcoin with Crypto Debit Card Services.

I dont think so! If only trevel to europe, becouse crypto cards accepted just in europe! in other counties it doesn't work!

The problem right now is that not all countries accept bitcoin but the whole concept of this one for me is really amazing. Imagine that you can go anywhere and spend money using your cryptocurrency its pretty cool, hope that it will be implemented in the future.