Re:Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency of the ...
by skybrian on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:15PM
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What bookstores do you buy from that accept bitcoin?
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Re:Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency of the ...
by diego on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:17PM
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You can buy gift cards for lots of major retailers with bitcoin. You can even buy from amazon via purse.io.
Re:Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency of the ...
by ufo on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:32PM
(#14591427)
Everything I have ever read about purse.io indicates that the gift cards there are purchased with stolen credit card details.
Re:Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency of the ...
by gnodar on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:22PM
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A lot of people use cash to buy giftcards, in order to pay for bitcoin anonymously. So now it's cash -> giftcard -> bitcoin -> giftcard -> physical thing. The future is odd.
Re:Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency of the ...
by Analemma_ on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:31PM
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purse.io is a money laundering operation for stolen credit card numbers. If it hasn't been shut down yet and its operators arrested, it will be soon.
Re:Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency of the ...
by curiousgal on Monday June 19, 2017 @09:26PM
(#14591604)
I haven't come across any so far. I convert BTC to USD and use that.
Re:Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency of the ...
by skybrian on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @01:27AM
(#14592394)
Okay. I'm curious about how you use BTC and why it means so much to you?
Re:Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency of the ...
by curiousgal on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @07:45AM
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It means so much to me because I live in a country with no Paypal or easy access to credit cards that can be used online. Bitcoin is the only way I can pay for servers and books.