here@richq11 and @dwinblood have both brought up issues with the BitPay card as of late. You can see Bitpay's remarks
This is a card I have used in the past.
Let us suppose that cards like this become unusable...how do we spend our Bitcoin?
Business Insider provides a list of business where you can spend BTC, which includes
- Expedia, for trips
- Microsoft
- Virgin Galactic
- Overstock.com
- NewEgg
- eGifter (this outlet sells Amazon gift cards!)
- Zynga
You can also try Coin Mall
So you can buy tangible items, but you still can't get CASH. You might try localbitcoins.com. which you may find complicated the first time.
On the other hand
How about spending our Steem directly?
- You can look on Peerhub for items
- You may be able to trade Steem for gold at Goldmoney
- Steemshop is a Steemit account that facilitates Steem currency exchanges for goods. I saw an offer for fiat here
Yeah, you know the FIAT banksters were like, yeah you can have your anonymous digital currency, but if you want our meaningless pieces of paper we want to know everything about you. This would be akin to the Crown requiring all pirates to register their identity before trading in their plunder on shore.
the personal knowledge is their primary concern - it's why so many businesses are determined to have you pay via credit card
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but..but..but
TERRORISM!
money laundering!
Even if bitcoin's entire market cap could be converted into cash, it would be big enough to handle the money laundering for the Cocain Import Agency. For that, they need the biggest of banks, like Chase, which has been fined for such, several times.
And what terrorist would use a coin that keeps a record of each transaction?
Pretty soon, it will be bitcoin that is supporting the centuries old dark occultist, pedo organizations.
If this wasn't so important, it would be simply nice to make a bowl of popcorn and watch the show.
bitcoin has been the currency of choice for small time drug deals...no biggie
of course pedos can use it, BUT we catch them the same we always have by baiting them and thensqueezing them for their contacts
excellent point about Chase and the other big banks running money
damn drug lords use the interstate highways too.
better shut em down.
Damn! You are sooo correct.
We've got to shut down those interstate highways!
rotflol ^_^
ZACTLY
translated into politicese as "muh kickback" and "muh peasants are revoltin"
LOL
Realy helpful i also search every day where i withdrawal my money of cryptocurency