Spending-bitcoin.com - The biggest directory of online stores accepting Bitcoin!

[SpendingBitcoin]

Definitely need a new listing site. Great to see this effort. Almost everything I try to use as you say is outdated, my suggestion also is to use a geographic categorisation (by country maybe, or by where they ship to). I got a whole lot of sites from my country that mostly, when I visited, actually either no longer accept BTC or the people who run the shop don't know how to operate it.

One more thing: might be a good idea to list the payment processor. As in, Antonoupoulos using BTCPay Server and thuisbezorg using BitPay.

Another thing, I think the effort needs to be spread out, or somehow linked to Google or some other big service like that because the moment you stop updating, you get yet another site that becomes old and outdated.

Considering all the feedback regarding the countries we will add that information to the sidebars. It will be a lot of work to enter the countries since they'll have to be checked manually so please allow us some time to check all 700+ pages .

We have tried to list the payment processors but in reality over 90% of the websites don't display their payment processor anywhere. We'd have to walk through the entire purchase process in order to find out, which is way too time consuming. Only showing the payment processor on a few websites would look messy.

What exactly do you mean by 'linked to Google'?

As we stated before, most of the websites are shipping worldwide so it shouldn't be an issue where they are located. We're looking into the possibilities of adding such a feature.

I would also like to see where each site is located because some things just aren't worth buying because of the pretty expensive shipping, customs, and VAT costs. In some cases, goods purchased in the US and shipped to the EU are more expensive then if we buy the same thing in EU.

As for the site itself, I can say that it is a really great project, and as far as I can see the number of links is constantly increasing. I will definitely do my best to check some categories and maybe submit some new links.

At first glance I notice that in the category "Hosting" is not listed https://www.steadyturtle.com/ which is a very well known hosting company on this forum for years. Of course, they accept Bitcoin as a means of payment.

Thanks for notifying us about SteadyTurtle. Feel free to add it yourself and find out how easy it is to submit new websites .

[BitcoinsGreat]

I would like to suggest that if you have some budget for marketing, you can start a marketing campaign here on this forum as it will increase your traffic to great extent.
Secondly do you have your presence on Facebook page and twitter ? Do let us know so we can follow you on social media too.

[SpendingBitcoin]

I would like to suggest that if you have some budget for marketing, you can start a marketing campaign here on this forum as it will increase your traffic to great extent.
Secondly do you have your presence on Facebook page and twitter ? Do let us know so we can follow you on social media too.

We are active on twitter: https://twitter.com/SpendingBitcoin. We're currently doing a Ledger Nano S: Whitepaper Limited Edition giveaway on Twitter (see our second post in this topic).

There is no budget for marketing (yet) since we are funding everything ourselves and we do not intend to monetize the website. We will start accepting donations in the (near) future.

[Bightening]

There is no budget for marketing (yet) since we are funding everything ourselves and we do not intend to monetize the website. We will start accepting donations in the (near) future.

Although it’s a huge feat, You don’t necessarily have to remind viewers the fact that it’s a self funded project. Posting a bitcoin wallet to receive donations would be a good idea. Probably on your signature box here, your website and your other social media accounts that permits donations.

Btw, since this is one of the few websites that allow for peer-to-per listing and review of websites that accept bitcoin, I’ll suggest you make use of SEO for google search. People new to bitcoin needs to see spending-bitcoin. One popular questions asked about bitcoin is ‘Where can I spend my bitcoins’.

[SpendingBitcoin]

There is no budget for marketing (yet) since we are funding everything ourselves and we do not intend to monetize the website. We will start accepting donations in the (near) future.

Although it’s a huge feat, You don’t necessarily have to remind viewers the fact that it’s a self funded project. Posting a bitcoin wallet to receive donations would be a good idea. Probably on your signature box here, your website and your other social media accounts that permits donations.

Btw, since this is one of the few websites that allow for peer-to-per listing and review of websites that accept bitcoin, I’ll suggest you make use of SEO for google search. People new to bitcoin needs to see spending-bitcoin. One popular questions asked about bitcoin is ‘Where can I spend my bitcoins’.

We value our users' privacy, which is why we're not simply posting a donation address. We'll set up a BTCpay donation plugin soon, which will allow us to use an xpub (and Lightning tips).

Regarding SEO, that's on our to-do list. We're also creating a pull request soon in the bitcoin.org Github repo, requesting them to add a link to spending-bitcoin.com on bitcoin.org.


 

[Android4Life]

Do you have any Android app for this website ?  Like to see an app for this site too.

[posi]

I like the innovation put together to create the site and it will be nice if you guys could add countries where the site listed can ship to (by adding worldwide, local, EU, US etc) in other to save user stress.

Do you have any Android app for this website ?  Like to see an app for this site too.

I don't think they will have Android app of the site now cause the project was just created a couple of weeks base on the site domain age.

[hulla]

This is totally a site with good features which will increase the user base of cryptocurrency rather using it as medium of value. I just love the love the home and living and the foods categories.

[DaveF]

Do you have any plans to add physical stores that accept BTC?
Something like https://coinmap.org/
Sometimes you want to order stuff online, sometimes you want to pick it up locally.

Would be nice to have them combined.

Yeah, I know it's a major project update to do it.
Can't hurt to ask.

-Dave

[Bightening]

Do you have any plans to add physical stores that accept BTC?
Something like https://coinmap.org/
Sometimes you want to order stuff online, sometimes you want to pick it up locally.

Would be nice to have them combined.

Yeah, I know it's a major project update to do it.
Can't hurt to ask.

-Dave

I do see bitcoin more as an online currency than a currency I would like to spend in stores locally. Just a few stores do accept bitcoin and you’ll more likely know that they do accept bitcoin except in cases when you’re new in the place. I’m just saying I prefer fiat for offline transactions and bitcoin for online payments. But like you said it doesn’t hurt to ask If spending-bitcoins would want to add local stores that accept bitcoins.
Also, adding local stores means spending-bitcoin would have to
-tag locations to each Store listed
- and ask every visitor to allow access to their current location (privacy breach) if they want to find out store around that accept bitcoin.

Btw, if in a few years more stores begin to accept bitcoin, it would be great to spend it locally, right now few people know about it here.

[SpendingBitcoin]

Do you have any Android app for this website ?  Like to see an app for this site too.

We don't have plans for an Android app. We'll continue on making the website extremely mobile friendly so there is no need for an app.

Do you have any plans to add physical stores that accept BTC?
Something like https://coinmap.org/
Sometimes you want to order stuff online, sometimes you want to pick it up locally.

Would be nice to have them combined.

Yeah, I know it's a major project update to do it.
Can't hurt to ask.

-Dave

We are considering to add physical stores once we are finished developing the current website. We have already been approached by several parties to help supply data .

Also, adding local stores means spending-bitcoin would have to
-tag locations to each Store listed
- and ask every visitor to allow access to their current location (privacy breach) if they want to find out store around that accept bitcoin.

We are working on the locations as we speak. Regarding access to current locations, we're not going to add that. We don't store or access any userdata and we want to keep it that way.

[DU18]

The promotion of online store development is quite good, is this site able to penetrate various businesses, and how much do we have to pay to join and partner with your website? I think you need to accept other altcoins to make payment transactions such as eth and dogecoin.

[SpendingBitcoin]

The promotion of online store development is quite good, is this site able to penetrate various businesses, and how much do we have to pay to join and partner with your website? I think you need to accept other altcoins to make payment transactions such as eth and dogecoin.

As we mentioned several times, there is no fee to list on our website. We will not add support for anything other than Bitcoin and Lightning.

[Chikito]

Great website, I adding some web like https://www.abuseipdb.com/ and not more time to appear on the search box.
I don't know why bitcointalk hasn't appeared, are people isn't submit it on your site?

I did submit bitcointalk last hours ago, now appear on site.
https://spending-bitcoin.com/entry/bitcoin-forum-index

[Lucius]

Thanks for notifying us about SteadyTurtle. Feel free to add it yourself and find out how easy it is to submit new websites .

You're welcome

I have to admit that I didn't notice at all that it was possible to submit a new link, which is certainly a great option for anyone who wants to contribute to making the site even better with more links. I will definitely add more sites that have the option of paying with Bitcoin, and are not currently listed.

It's commendable to see someone do something for the community and pay it out of their own pocket. I hope you find some source of funding, and I think donations are a good start

[buwaytress]

@OP yeah, now that you mentioned it, it's going to be a heavy manual task to add categorisation, but perhaps find a way to let users add that kind of information.

Sorry, when I said "like Google" I meant like Google map. If you login to google map and allow notification for help settings, you'll get prompted questions about a place you're visiting, like

1. Does this place accept credit cards?
2. Is it handicap friendly, etc.

So for your site, if you could find a way to make it like google map, so users visiting can help update the page like:
- does this place use BitPay?
- does it ship to EU?

I know it's a thankless job but that's the problem I want to try help your site to avoid... because all the listing sites I see started out well until the burden of updating became too much.

[YOSHIE]

spending-bitcoin.com

https://twitter.com/SpendingBitcoin

I have not seen a website like this.
This site owns and sells online stores for a fee in Bitcoin, very interesting.

I have a little question.
1. Can you specify the countries that can be shipped goods purchased.
2. What are the shipping costs to be paid by each country, pay with Bitcoin or cash or be included in the package price of goods purchased.
3. goods that have been purchased, how to send it.

I follow, Twitter spending-bitcoin, for more information and to find out what products are sold.

[SpendingBitcoin]

Great website, I adding some web like https://www.abuseipdb.com/ and not more time to appear on the search box.
I don't know why bitcointalk hasn't appeared, are people isn't submit it on your site?

I did submit bitcointalk last hours ago, now appear on site.
https://spending-bitcoin.com/entry/bitcoin-forum-index

Thanks for the submissions. We've added AbuseIPDB to the 'Charity' category since they are a free service and are accepting donations. Bitcointalk isn't really the type of website that belongs in our database, which is why that submission got declined. We're mostly looking for online stores and services.

You're welcome

I have to admit that I didn't notice at all that it was possible to submit a new link, which is certainly a great option for anyone who wants to contribute to making the site even better with more links. I will definitely add more sites that have the option of paying with Bitcoin, and are not currently listed.

It's commendable to see someone do something for the community and pay it out of their own pocket. I hope you find some source of funding, and I think donations are a good start

Thanks, we're looking forward to seeing your submissions .

@OP yeah, now that you mentioned it, it's going to be a heavy manual task to add categorisation, but perhaps find a way to let users add that kind of information.

Sorry, when I said "like Google" I meant like Google map. If you login to google map and allow notification for help settings, you'll get prompted questions about a place you're visiting, like

1. Does this place accept credit cards?
2. Is it handicap friendly, etc.

So for your site, if you could find a way to make it like google map, so users visiting can help update the page like:
- does this place use BitPay?
- does it ship to EU?

I know it's a thankless job but that's the problem I want to try help your site to avoid... because all the listing sites I see started out well until the burden of updating became too much.

Thanks for the suggestion. Adding information like the type of payment processor and where they ship is way too time consuming for us to add. A lot of website don't specify that information until you walk through the entire payment process.

spending-bitcoin.com

https://twitter.com/SpendingBitcoin

I have not seen a website like this.
This site owns and sells online stores for a fee in Bitcoin, very interesting.

I have a little question.
1. Can you specify the countries that can be shipped goods purchased.
2. What are the shipping costs to be paid by each country, pay with Bitcoin or cash or be included in the package price of goods purchased.
3. goods that have been purchased, how to send it.

I follow, Twitter spending-bitcoin, for more information and to find out what products are sold.

Thanks for following us on Twitter!

1. We're in the middle of adding where each online store is shipping from .
2. There is no way for us to tell what the shipping costs are. That all depends on the price of your product(s), the type of shipping you prefer and where they have to send it.
3. Could you specify what you mean by that?

[YOSHIE]

3. Could you specify what you mean by that?

That is, every item that has been purchased, your party sends it using what services, post office, tiky, plane, or something rented.

However, I will try to transact and choose my favorite items, hopefully this can be the first step to doing business, where there are my friends, maybe who are interested in buying goods on the online store site, which you are developing right now.
I hope this will become one of the leading sites in the world in the future.

[Olaphash]

I browsed your website and everything is OK except for some store listed without images. I think you should work on that. And also make the description 150 characters long for those submitting new store. I saw a store with a short description.
Great idea BTW. I have your URL as my personal text and also my profile website