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February 17, 2015, 09:12:14 PM |
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Bitcoin gets rid of all the useless middlemen*
*Every service involves ton of middlemen to buy shit
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Once a transaction has 6 confirmations, it is extremely unlikely that an attacker without at least 50% of the network's computation power would be able to reverse it.
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Elwar (OP)
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February 17, 2015, 09:15:45 PM |
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Well buying Product keys isn't listed also . most of the websites out there like Key4co.in are just selling Origin,Steam,Battle.net keys . and nothing else , it would be nice if there is a website to buy Softwares keys etc ...
Amazon? I bought my last video game from Amazon via purse.io. |
First seastead company actually selling sea homes: Ocean Builders https://ocean.builders Of course we accept bitcoin. |
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February 17, 2015, 09:17:11 PM |
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Heard of brawker for the first time. I guess its amazing service. Is the site active and will my order get confirmed quickly? Also I want my grocery shop owner to accept bitcoins. I asked him to accept them but he refused to accept it  |
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
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February 17, 2015, 09:17:18 PM |
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I think this list US specific and at most cover parts of Europe. At India you can buy almost NOTHING with bitcoin so far. I think, the scenario is similar in China, Russia & Brazil too. |
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ChuckBuck
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February 17, 2015, 09:18:14 PM |
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Car dealerships or houses. Can't buy cars or houses easily with Bitcoin.
And I'm not talking about if a person lists something and accepts Bitcoin as a payment, I'm talking about any car or realtor. It's not really an option I'm afraid of yet.
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R2D221
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February 17, 2015, 09:34:37 PM |
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Phone service. It seems such a natural fit. I know I can use a bill pay service for a fee, but I would like to directly pre-pay for my phone service.
Landline or mobile? At least for mobile I use a service in Mexico called PagaBitcoin to prepay for my calls. I don't know if there's a similar service for other countries. |
An economy based on endless growth is unsustainable.
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Elwar (OP)
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February 17, 2015, 09:50:55 PM |
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Hmm, I did not realize that so many people were paying cash directly to the wholesaler. Do you mail the cash directly to China, maybe overnight it in an envelope or do you fly directly to China to buy your merchandise with cash?
Or do you use a third party service like PayPal or Visa on a third party middleman that buys from the wholesaler and sells to you? Or worse, a website that has many retailers that acts as yet another layer between you and the wholesaler?
In the beginning it was a chicken and egg thing. No merchant accepted bitcoins so nobody spent bitcoins but since nobody was spending bitcoins no merchant was willing to accept it.
Now you can buy practically anything on the Internet with bitcoins but no...not good enough still, you have to buy directly from the wholesaler with bitcoins and the wholesaler has to keep the bitcoins, oh and that's not good enough still because he might live in a country that doesn't pay taxes in bitcoin so he will eventually convert some of your bitcoins to fiat to pay taxes so you will wait until some country accepts bitcoins for taxes, pays all of their public services in bitcoins and never trades with any other country that might want to convert those bitcoins to fiat.
Even then people won't be satisfied because the company isn't big enough, they want a big company to not only accept Bitcoin but advertise Bitcoin (would a 10 minute Superbowl commercial suffice?). Because that gives Bitcoin "credibility". Not so you can actually spend it, just so the price will go up so you can cash out to some fiat currency (which you claim to not want any part of during your purchasing experience).
So yes, let's refuse to use any third party service to spend bitcoins (at a discount). Instead let's use fiat currency while we wait until we can use bitcoin in the most optimum way possible.
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First seastead company actually selling sea homes: Ocean Builders https://ocean.builders Of course we accept bitcoin. |
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Elwar (OP)
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February 17, 2015, 10:03:25 PM |
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Phone service. It seems such a natural fit. I know I can use a bill pay service for a fee, but I would like to directly pre-pay for my phone service.
https://www.mobileshop.ph/ for top up worldwide. |
First seastead company actually selling sea homes: Ocean Builders https://ocean.builders Of course we accept bitcoin. |
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newIndia
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February 17, 2015, 11:49:41 PM |
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Phone service. It seems such a natural fit. I know I can use a bill pay service for a fee, but I would like to directly pre-pay for my phone service.
https://www.mobileshop.ph/ for top up worldwide. I wish to pay my credit card bill using bitcoin, because Google Appengine bills me in credit card and does not accept bitcoin. |
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February 18, 2015, 05:19:29 PM |
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Phone service. It seems such a natural fit. I know I can use a bill pay service for a fee, but I would like to directly pre-pay for my phone service.
https://www.mobileshop.ph/ for top up worldwide. Hey thanks Elwar! That looks good and they had the service I use. I could not get it to work just now, I'll have to play with it later. |
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ChuckBuck
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February 18, 2015, 06:42:01 PM |
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Car dealerships or houses. Can't buy cars or houses easily with Bitcoin.
And I'm not talking about if a person lists something and accepts Bitcoin as a payment, I'm talking about any car or realtor. It's not really an option I'm afraid of yet.
Guess my post just got glossed over completely. Just named the 2 things that you pretty much can't buy easily with Bitcoin: Cars and Houses. Guess, because there's so much involved, titles, legal fees, determining mortgage or car payments if paying over time... Maybe this is an untapped niche that some Bitcoin dev can come up with, since most people can't buy houses or cars in one payment. |
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ChuckBuck
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February 18, 2015, 06:56:56 PM |
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Those are workarounds and limited options available, not readily available for the common person that sees something and wants it now. Basically settling for what's out there, as opposed to here's the house/car with the kitchen and/or sunroof I want, and the 3 and half baths, or 17 inch wheels I want. This is settling, man. No choices or options. This is take it or leave it, as is. Proved my point. Still can't buy houses or cars easily with Bitcoin on my terms. |
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February 18, 2015, 08:08:39 PM |
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I hear what your saying. I often have to compromise on model or price to get what I want with bitcoin. However look again at Overstock. You can get whatever kind of car with whatever features you want. And the Ford dealer can get you any Ford product. There is also Tesla motors. They will make a car for your bitcoins.
Same with the real estate market. They take BTC or cash. Same price, same everything except payment method. I have been looking into this a while now. I am shopping for 40+ acer plots of real estate in the upper midwest. They are not as hard to find as you may think.
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ChuckBuck
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February 18, 2015, 08:22:26 PM |
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I hear what your saying. I often have to compromise on model or price to get what I want with bitcoin. However look again at Overstock. You can get whatever kind of car with whatever features you want. And the Ford dealer can get you any Ford product. There is also Tesla motors. They will make a car for your bitcoins.
Same with the real estate market. They take BTC or cash. Same price, same everything except payment method. I have been looking into this a while now. I am shopping for 40+ acer plots of real estate in the upper midwest. They are not as hard to find as you may think.
Understood, working within the limits or places or sites, you can get what you want in a roundabout way. Will definitely check out Overstock for car shopping to see if the participating dealerships will work with me. As far as houses go, several of those properties are way out of my range. I know that Bitcoin is continually growing and progressing, so one day, all of this will be available on the most common sites and the local dealerships/realtors at some future point. |
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February 18, 2015, 08:23:59 PM |
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Stocks cannot be bought with bitcoin (aside from some crypto stocks maybe, but I am talking about big companies stocks)
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February 18, 2015, 10:51:04 PM |
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Phone service. It seems such a natural fit. I know I can use a bill pay service for a fee, but I would like to directly pre-pay for my phone service.
https://www.mobileshop.ph/ for top up worldwide. Hey thanks Elwar! That looks good and they had the service I use. I could not get it to work just now, I'll have to play with it later. Apparently T-mobile Poland started to accept bitcoins. Just came across this post in press section: That's pretty big. |
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February 19, 2015, 12:12:50 AM |
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Can I buy a swimming pool with bitcoin?
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February 19, 2015, 01:30:47 AM |
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Stocks cannot be bought with bitcoin (aside from some crypto stocks maybe, but I am talking about big companies stocks)
Reggie Middleton will get you exposure to the big indexes at least /r/BitcoinDerivatives Not much of a trader, but I think what he's doing is amazing. Surprising I hardly ever see a mention in /r/Bitcoin or /r/BitcoinMarkets. |
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