We all know that spending SATs is way harder than spending dirty 💰 FIAT, but it's a necessary step in order to help BTC adoption.
I have bought some items and services during my orange life.
The first purchase I did using BTC as money was to buy an online course about trading...Big mistake, I know, sorry.
What was the first item or service that you bought using BTC as payment???
A cup of coffee at Dunkin Donuts through the Bitcoin Company. Some people say that doesn't count.
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They're right -- the stuff Dunkin serves should not count as actual coffee.
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Our resident coffee snob. In my family this is the dialogue: "Ooh. This coffee has been sitting for hours. It's burnt. "
My wife: " Leave it. Dad will drink it. "
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I will drink it too. Coffee is coffee. N it gives me an excuse to drink another cup
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In fairness, I'll drink the bad coffee, too. I just like being a snob about it.
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The difference is I don't know it's bad.
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I love being a coffee snob while drinking instant
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Taurus 2 Sep
The first, I send some sats to my brother after selling one of his books. Then if we talk about a real store/restaurant IRL, Not proud of it but probably a drink at mc Donalds
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i donated 1 btc to the libertarian party when it was $10/btc
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What bitcoin?
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Some food in a restaurant.
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Nice try, IRS
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CAPPUCCINO
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @q 28 Aug
burgers and beer somewhere around 2015 at Room 77 in Berlin, this was during a time when I did not practise spend and replace. Think it was like 0.27 BTC
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Legendary place! I've not been there, but I know it's a good place to go to.
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Believe it or not a Lego set.
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POUNDS AND POUNDS OF BLOW FROM THE DREAD PIRATE
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plz make this a song for real, 10/10 would rock
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A nice bunch of [redacted]-infused tea and chocolate
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I bought some old video games from a friend of mine in exchange for Bitcoin, it was a good purchase.
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VPN subscription.
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A bracelet from a local in El Salvador for $15 was the first purchase I made with Bitcoin :)
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Soap - hehehe
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I never purchased any thing with Bitcoin. My only spending of sats for zapping and posting upto now.
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a satscard. i had to scrape up sats scattered around my practice wallets in order to make the transaction, and learned that not all wallets are connected the same way to the lightning network.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @drlh 28 Aug
Bought link with 100 sats to download a film. That site now is defunct. But hey still have that film!
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festival tickets
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Coffee ☕️ 🙂
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Silk Road (Free Ross): drugs
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 28 Aug
lsd iirc
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I bought some bitcoin art with bitcoin. I have a couple pieces of Bitcoin art.
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When I started my journey in Bitcoin, the first thing I paid in satochis was a t-shirt I saw in a store in Spain.
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a laptop
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$15 worth of supermarket vouchers from Bitrefill
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Books. A paperback copy of the bitcoin standard over lightning. Still have it and love it!
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I've been actively using Bitcoin as a medium of exchange for various goods and services since 2020
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The first item I bought with SATs was a book for 500 SATs titled "WE INVENTED BITCOIN" which was very interesting to me, it was an educational purchase and I do not regret it. Many people use their SATs for purchases of necessary items not related to Bitcoin and that is part of the Circular Economy. In my case I am in favor of it, but also of buying elements associated with Bitcoin such as: paying for courses on Bitcoin, supporting educational projects about Bitcoin, Hardware Wallet to increase the security of our funds. In the long term, that investment in our education and security is smart and returns.
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Pizza, no middlemen
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2 pizzas for 10.000 BTC???
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ahah, unfortunately no, I never had 10k BTC in my life, not even close to that.
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I bought a Blue Canary Nightlight (inspired by the TMBG song) for 17 BTC in 2010. Was GPU mining and just messing around. If only I’d held on to what I mined instead…
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I'm gonna purchase when I've some significant amounts of Sats. I'm enjoying my early days in Bitcoin. I'm a newbie, you can call!!
May be, if I can in India I'm gonna buy one luxury watch!!
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I did mobile top up via btc
In our country Nepal bitcoin is not legal yet
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Hm... I think here and Nostr are the only placed I've spent sats. Otherwise I be stackin
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A Steam game on Joltfun.
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I play this addicting rhythm game called osu! and while the game is free they offer these osu!supporter benefits for those who want to support it.
It accepted quite a lot of payment methods and one that caught my eye was BitPay, wait a minute, I can buy osu!supporter with cryptocurrency?
I could not hold my urge and I asked a friend to lend me some BTC, and I went ahead to do it. though the item was supposed to be $4 I ended up paying over $7 due to BitPay and on-chain network transaction fees, this was way before I learned about the lightning network, in fact, I only discovered lightning these past days and it's unbelievable!
Still, that's what got me interested in crypto and finally seeing what spending it felt like because I never thought anyone would use Bitcoin as a payment method, it was this weird internet token that stock market nerds look at the graphs, I thought.
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renting dedicated servers and domains
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