Acceptance and widespread adoption have seen Bitcoin evolve from being a domain of technology experts to being a preferred means of regulating transactions worldwide. Among the restrictions on the use of digital currency in some jurisdictions, e-commerce platforms have taken the initiative in accepting bitcoin payments as a way to meet customer needs.
Places to spend Bitcoin online
Online shopping: Overstock
For those who like to shop online, Overstock is the right place where the online retailer was among the first to add bitcoin payment support. With just the click of a button, you should be able to pay for everything from electronics to furniture, jewelry, bedding using Bitcoin companies.
In addition to Bitcoin, the e-commerce retailer also allows customers to make payments using other cryptocurrencies in the name of Ethereum, Dash and Bitcoin Cash. To use the cryptocurrency in the e-commerce site, you must transfer your preferred virtual currency and the system will perform the conversion automatically.
Travel arrangements: Expedia, CheapAir, Virgin Galactic SurfAir, AirBaltic, Webjet
For those who are always traveling, Expedia is the site to visit when planning to organize the trip. The online travel agency allows visitors to pay for hotel bookings using Bitcoin. However, Bitcoin can only be used to pay for hotel reservations.
In case you want to book airline tickets with Bitcoin, then CheapAir and Surf Air are some of the sites to visit. Once all flights have been chosen, CheapAir will provide payment options for which Bitcoin is one of them. The site accepts bitcoin payments for both domestic and international flights.
AirBaltic and Webjet also accept bitcoin payments for a variety of flights, as well as for hotels, cruises and car rentals.
Virgin Galactic allows people with a higher bitcoin to hold to pay for space travel.
Buy gift vouchers: eGifter and Gyft
EGifter and Gyft beat Amazon and Best Buy on the integration of Bitcoin payments for Gift Cards. You can use Bitcoin at these two sites to buy gift certificates and redeem them at hundreds of other popular retailers, including Amazon and Best Buy.
Purchases of games and movies: Microsoft
Microsoft is among the very few technological giants that seem to have adopted cryptocurrency as a form of payment. The software giant allows customers to deposit bitcoins in their Microsoft accounts to buy games, movies and apps on Windows and the Xbox Store.
The service should be of great benefit to movie and game lovers. Microsoft may take the service to another level by accepting these payments in its online store.
In addition to Xbox, you can also buy Zynga mobile and online games using Bitcoin, Green Man Gaming, Humble Bundle and PlayStation Network.
Pay for TV: Dish payments
Satellite Dish TV Provider accepts payments with bitcoins from 2014. The network provider allows people to pay their favorite TV subscription packages using Bitcoin in addition to other payment options.
Bitcoin payment is also available for DISH customers who wish to make one-time payments on mydish.com. The company has worked with Coinbase to exchange cryptocurrencies to guarantee its customers an easy payment process.
Charity and tips
If you are charitable or return gratitude as a sign of good gesture, then you can use some for your Bitcoin holdings for tips and charity. There are numerous online sites that accept Bitcoin payments for donations.
The Wikimedia Foundation is one of these charitable organizations that accepts Bitcoin donations for the development and distribution of free multilingual educational content.
Bitcoin for Charity List contains a growing list of verified charitable associations that accept Bitcoin.
Places to spend Bitcoin offline
Currently, there are very few places where you can spend Bitcoin while offline. However, it is still possible to pass the cryptocurrency into brick and mortar stores, as well as some services.
Joints of food beverages
There are a number of food and beverage joints in the world that accept Bitcoin payments for some years.
PizzaForCoins located in California in the United States allows people to buy pizza using Bitcoin. Pemburry Tavern Tavern in London, on the other hand, allows partygoers to pay for drinks using Bitcoin.
Burger Bear, a London-based joint food company, also accepts payments with Bitcoin and The Pink Cow for dinner in Japan.
Pay for taxi services
Depending on the location, there are taxi services all over the world that accept Bitcoin payments. One of the largest taxi companies in Italy Cooperativa RadioTxi 3570 accepts Bitcoin for rates. Taxis in Budapest in Hungary have also started accepting Bitcoin payments as part of a service supported by CoinPay.
Merchants
Traders around the world have started accepting Bitcoin payments in the brick and mortar store with the integration of apps that allows them to receive these payments. In Japan, for example, there are about 260,000 commercial facilities consisting of food establishments, drugstores and points of sale that accept BTC payments.
Some of the corporate installations in the insular nation that accepts payments with Bitcoin include Comicap and Anshin Oyado, as well as the Bic Camera electronics store chain.
Pay the tuition fees
Although Bitcoin still has to find its way into the mainstream industry, a university in Cyprus, the University of Nicosia has become the first higher learning institution to accept such payments for the Master of Science course in digital currency.
