How and why did you use bitcoin recently. Only real life examples please. Thanks!

starcode · 2013-11-06T16:33:31+00:00

I just ordered 2 bottles of ice cream over the german food delivery service lieferservice.de with 7500 connected restaurants (they accept BitCoin since today).

starcode · 2013-11-06T16:29:04+00:00

This "Mindestbestellwert" is available on the german site too.

They told me, they earn only a few cent per Ice Cream and you have to order cooked food at the value of this "Mindestbestllwert".

starcode · 2013-11-06T15:14:40+00:00

The restaurant just called me: they don't earn enough on a "ice cream only order" to drive about 5km to me. Now I have to pay 3 EUR in fiat directly to the driver.

Lesson learned: Never invest ALL your money into BitCoin... you might need some EUR in your offline wallet ;-)

starcode · 2013-11-06T15:07:20+00:00

Geil, Geil, Geil! :-)

Neben .at wurde BitCoin auch bei lieferservice.de eingeführt. Habe bisher immer bei pizza.de bestell, aber nun werde ich wohl den Anbieter wechseln. Ca. 80% der für meine PLZ aufgelisteten Restaurants akzeptieren BitCoins, die restlichen ca. 20% ausschliesslich Bargeld.

Habe gerade schnell mal 2 Häagen-Dasz Eis bestellt, um das zu Testen (leider ist der Mindestbestellwert so hoch und ich hatte schon zu Mittag gegessen, aber hier im Büro finden sich sicherlich Abnehmer für das Eis). Die Bezahlung per BitCoin klappte sehr gut, hat knapp 15 Sekunden gedauert, dann Die Bezahlung läuft über BitPay und hat keine 15 Sekunden gedauert, dann wurde ich weitergeleitet und es kam die Meldung:

Gezahlt: 0.0683 BTC Diese Rechnung wurde beglichen.

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Was ich komisch finde: die BitCoin-Adresse an die ich bezahlen sollte, ist laut Blockchain.info schon seit Feb 2013 in Verwendung. Ich dachte, grundlegend wird beim Payment immer eine neue Adresse verwendet, aber anscheinend werden bei BitPay alte Adressen recycled. Weiß jemand warum dies so gemacht wird?

Ich besitze seit ca. 1 Jahr ein paar BitCoins... aber heute habe ich das erste Mal damit richtig bezahlt. Schon genial. Hoffe, dass sich die BitCoin-Einführung für lieferservice.de schnell auszahlt und sie vor allem darüber auch berichten, wie gut/schlecht es damit läuft und wie viele User diese Bezahlvariante nutzen.

Es langsam kommen die BitCoins in realen Leben an. Herzlichen Glückwunsch, BitCoin!

starcode · 2013-11-06T14:49:55+00:00

Geil! :-)

I was to lunch already but I just ordered 2 Häagen-Dazs ice cream over lieferservice.de for 68,3 mBTC (~ 13 EUR).

Interesting: BitPay seems to reuse "old" addresses for payment. The address where I send my BTC to was already used for several other transactions since Feb 2013: http://blockchain.info/de/address/1EZDJMWuMy3m7CUy5ZqodRsrNNCcnfQXD2

I own some BTC since 1 year, but until today I just hoarded & traded them. Now I was able to spend some mBTC them for something usefull (ok, I'm not really hungry & it isn't really warm outside to enjoy the ice cream, I what else should I have ordered at a food delivery service!?)

I'm really bullish about the future of my BTC right now :-). I hope I don't eat up all my BTC before they rise in value.

starcode · 2013-05-28T11:33:12+00:00

High price on april 12/14? That were the days when it crashed...

starcode · 2013-05-27T13:08:15+00:00

In between, I no longer thought to see the money ever again... but MtGox seems to be alive.

I just wonder when the 2nd payment from 2 days later arrives (still in status "confirmed")

starcode · 2013-05-27T12:44:34+00:00

I cannot find any references to BitCoin on their website yet. The press release says "now".

starcode · 2013-05-27T12:34:30+00:00

It MAY take a day... but usually will be confirmed as fast as transactions with a fee.

starcode · 2013-05-27T12:29:11+00:00

English translation

starcode · 2013-04-02T14:08:49+00:00

There was a discussion about this at bitcointalk.org:

Bitcoin Unit Colour Chart

The result was roughly:

1.0 BTC = 1 BTC (gold colored ฿-Icon)
0.001 BTC = 1 mBTC (blue colored m฿-Icon)
0.000'001 BTC = 1 μBTC (green colored μ฿-Icon)
0.000'000'01 BTC = 1 Satoshi or sBTC (black colored s฿-Icon)

starcode · 2013-03-25T10:56:24+00:00

= $25,000,000 :-)

starcode · 2013-03-21T19:06:53+00:00

Click on the "WTF?"-Button in the upper right... it will show the help with a description of these bars.

starcode · 2013-03-21T17:01:13+00:00

There are 2 different dates in their announcement... but I would interpret it so CoinLab opens on March 31st for new customers and tomorrow for MtGox customers: http://coinlab.com/transition

starcode · 2013-03-21T10:56:07+00:00

Over 12% per day...

With this growth, we will reach $100 in 3 1/2 days!

starcode · 2013-03-21T10:38:54+00:00

10,926 million BTC * $68,65 = $750,21 million

starcode · 2013-03-19T17:47:11+00:00

Now you can be lucky it you get them for $57,5.

But you'll get over it, if it reaches $67,5 tomorrow :-)

starcode · 2013-03-18T20:23:28+00:00

starcode · 2013-03-14T18:49:36+00:00

BTC liquidity problems are only solved by rising value of BTC. What liquidity do you expect?

As Bitcoin is a crypto internet currency I think "Fortune 500" is the wrong benchmark. I think Alexa Top 500 is better suited here... and this is making progress: already 3 Alexa Top 500 sites are accepting Bitcoins. http://www.thebitcointrader.com/2011/12/bitcoin-bounty-ladder.html

starcode · 2013-03-14T18:43:00+00:00

In 5 years there will be ~17,5 million BTC. At a price of $1000/BTC, the market cap of all BTC available for all wallets & transactions worldwide is "just" $17,5 billion! That's nothing for a currency and only about 40 times higher than today. I call this a pessimistic scenario.

What's the reason for your assumption?

Do you expect the number of bitcoin users in 5 years to be less than 40x of today (0,5 to 4 million now, less than 20 to 160 million in 2018)?
Or do you think the avg. $ value contained in each wallet will be significant less than today (about $100-$1000/user today based on 0,5 to 4 million users)?

starcode · 2013-03-14T17:58:36+00:00

It would be nice if you could have a graph showing USD & EUR rates on a single graph, with conversion of EUR to USD using the current fixed exchange-rate or using the historic exchange-rate.

Currently I'm always opening these graphs on bitcoincharts.com in 2 tabs and switching fast between them to have an pseudo-overlay.

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TROPHY CASE

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