What to buy with crypto?
You can get higher education for cryptocurrency: the University of Nicosia in Cyprus, the University of Cambria in the UK, Prague CEVRO University accept tuition fees in bitcoins. In 2015, bitcoins were offered to be transferred to the Red Cross account to help victims of the earthquake in Nepal. Of course, you can also buy a virus with bitcoins that will disable the computers of government agencies, but you can also pay with them for a sandwich at Subway. Sputnik explains why you might actually need a cryptocurrency.
The more widespread the cryptocurrency is, the less queues there will be at the exchange office at the airport. Now you can pay with bitcoins at the Subway restaurant chain, and in some places you can buy coffee for bitcoins - but most likely, you simply transfer bitcoin to the barista’s personal wallet. The faster the cryptocurrency appears in virtual wallets, the less you will need traditional euro cents on a trip, you can pay with bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies in any country.
By the way, you can also pay for air tickets with bitcoins. The most popular service for booking tickets and hotels is BTCTrip. The user interface of this resource is not much different from many travel portals, but the prices are indicated not only in dollars, but also in bitcoins and other altcoins. Expedia and Virgin Galactic are other services that started offering the ability to pay for trips in cryptocurrencies a few years ago.
Of the airlines, AirBaltic was the first to accept cryptocurrencies - it was possible to buy a ticket for them back in 2014. Bitcoins can be used to pay for tickets to 60 cities - in Europe, the Middle East, Russia and the CIS, however, business class is not sold for bitcoins.
By the way, while traveling, you can count on Coinmap, a resource that lists places where you can pay with bitcoin.
Every second transaction with a crypt falls on the sphere of gambling. Crypto casinos are famous for their generous bonus offers. They not only support blockchain technology and accept digital money, but also allow you to withdraw winnings to cryptocurrency wallets.
Microsoft offers users to replenish the wallets of their own accounts with cryptocurrency and then pay with them for purchased games, movies and applications. Bitcoins can be used to pay for games and Xbox subscriptions.
The WannaCry encryption virus, which infected between 200,000 and 300,000 computers in 150 countries, also accepted payment in bitcoins. I collected a little - a little more than 65 thousand dollars.
Cryptocurrency has been accepted on eBay since 2014, so even if you are not interested in cognizable cases, you can buy, say, a slow cooker for bitcoins. However, it is necessary to remember about the restrictions of the Belarusian customs at 22 euros per parcel.
You can pay for online purchases with cryptocurrency on the Purse.io website. Here you can order any product that you liked on Amazon and pay with bitcoins. There are discounts here - the goods can come out 5-30% cheaper.