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Directly? Lots of stuff, especially at Bitcoin conferences like hardware wallets, drinks, food, jewelry, art, books, VPN, mining equipment, physical coins, shirts, socks and a bunch of other stuff I can't recall.

Indirectly? Literally everything I buy, because I'm on a Bitcoin standard.

A lot of people make it a virtue signal to pay for stuff directly with Bitcoin. It's a nice thing to be able to, but it's not the end-all. That day will come, but trying to guilt people into using it as a payment method when they're paying more for the same good is just foolish.

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Leo Wandersleb 3mo ago

Usually, where BTC is also accepted, it doesn't cost more there to use BTC.

Usually, Bitcoin backed credit cards have terribly high fees, so you claim to pay with Bitcoin but the merchant is not a bitcoiner and couldn't care less about bitcoin.

I think, companies that accept Bitcoin directly deserve our support and I'm willing to pay some 2-3% for the pleasure of supporting the Bitcoin circular economy but not 10% unless it has other things going for it.

So I ordered at least 20 times from Fasttech. Sadly they are no more and I wish there was some comparable platform where I could buy all that stuff I'm currently getting from Amazon.

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Judge Hardcase 3mo ago

I would suggest that a company charging 2-3% more to accept Bitcoin is likely not receiving the Bitcoin directly, but rather paying that 2-3% to a 3rd-party processor to convert what they actually receive into fiat; and thus, not supporting a Bitcoin circular economy at all.

Leo Wandersleb 3mo ago

Yeah but when the bitcoin only merchant charges 3% more than the fiat competitor, that's usually not what's going on.

Judge Hardcase 3mo ago

Agreed. A company that accepts Bitcoin-only directly is likely NOT then having it converted to fiat. Rather, it signals an appreciation for value - which could easily account for charging more than their competitors do for inferior products/services.