🏷️ Hey it’s Spending Sunday! What Recent Bitcoin Purchases Have You Made? \ stacker news ~AGORA

🏷️ Hey it’s Spending Sunday! What Recent Bitcoin Purchases Have You Made?

423 sats \ 33 comments \ @AG 6 Oct AGORA

Let's hear some of your latest Bitcoin purchases, feel free to include links to the shops or merchants you bought from too.

If you missed our last thread, here are some of the items stackers recently spent their sats on.

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30 sats \ 12 replies \ @SwearyDoctor 6 Oct

bought a discounted game on GOG with bitcoin (through intermediary services, of course)

0 sats \ 11 replies \ @AG OP 6 Oct

What's GOG?

41 sats \ 10 replies \ @SimpleStacker 6 Oct

Gog.com

Stands for “good old games”

They’re an online game store, kinda like Steam. But they have a focus on republishing old games

31 sats \ 8 replies \ @nichro 6 Oct

GOG also only sells DRM-free games. Which is another aspect of "good old games". Remember when you bought a game and then just owned it to install anywhere online or offline?

They're owned by CDProjektRed too (Witcher & Cyberpunk studio) so I like to encourage them when I can, which is rarer these days 🥹

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 7 Oct

Well, old games used to have DRM. They'd include passwords or challenges in the game that required you to have access to the physical manual. It was a simple means of digital piracy prevention in the days before the internet was common.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SwearyDoctor 7 Oct

I'm old enough to remember the "look at your game manual and enter the 5th word in the 10th line on page 4!" protection! :D But it was never ANY word, the game didn't have a file containing all of the manual. it was a selection of a handful, and the cracked versions would come with "these are the 10 possible prompt words".

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 7 Oct

I liked it when the challenge question was actually something within the lore that you could only know if you had the manual.

I remember the old Sierra games would do that a lot.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @SwearyDoctor 7 Oct

So do I! when there's something on steam I like, first thing I do is check if I can also get it on gog. if that's possible, I avoid getting it on steam.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 7 Oct

Same. Unfortunately the GOG client is less stable than Steam, so I sometimes get a game on Steam if I think it's gonna be a technical beast. (BG3 is the latest example for me.)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwearyDoctor 7 Oct

and modding on GOG is an absolute nightmare. It's possible to include mods, but it gives you the runaround. On steam, it's workshop, click, done. (which of course also means centrally censored mods, on the other hand)

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @AG OP 6 Oct

Strangely they don't accept bitcoin 🤔

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwearyDoctor 7 Oct

unfortunately no, I had to do it over a corner.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG OP 6 Oct

I missed this one, I'll take a look. Thanks

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @ChrisS 6 Oct

Steak from kandccattle.com

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @AG OP 6 Oct

kandccattle.com

This is greatly delicious! Did you pick it up in store? I'm just getting an error when paying with lightning!

Just out of curiosity, do you know which integration are they using?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ChrisS 6 Oct

Did you pick it up in Store?

I had it delivered.

Just out of curiosity, do you know which integration are they using?

Not sure.

10 sats \ 4 replies \ @KLT 6 Oct

I bought rib eye steaks, eggs, lamb and a few extra things the mrs needed to make apple pie. sats used to purchase a visa gift card, then added to apple pay. 🫡

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @AG OP 6 Oct

Haha, dam fiat intermediaries! You did not try to orange pill the merchant... didn't you?

~food_and_drinks look's like this week way to spend sats!

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @KLT 6 Oct

I wish! The grocery store I went to was whole foods! haha. But know that I’ve orange pilled about 12 friends and family. All have weekly auto buys, some pay attention to it more, some pay attention to it less. All self custody and 1 also runs their own node!

I orange pilled my donut store and set her up on primal as well as my barber. Slowly but surely aiming to spend more sats directly!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @028559d218 7 Oct

you must be the most successful/prolific orange-piller I've ever heard of. Trying to get others to have a sustainable, intellectually-curious interest in Bitcoin is really difficult.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @KLT 7 Oct

oh it’s VERY difficult. I still have family and friends that can’t be bothered but the ones that have listened, thankfully get it for the most part.

I’m slowly realizing that we can’t, save everyone and just do the best we can.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Thereal 6 Oct

Zapping

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG OP 6 Oct

The most fun!

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 6 Oct

Other than my SN activity and open source bounty paying, I haven't bought anything with bitcoin.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG OP 6 Oct

That's a great way to spread sats around!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @028559d218 7 Oct

Bought a Proton VPN! I have used Proton before (free version) and I want to support them. I'm also excited for their upcoming Proton Wallet!!! :D

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @030e0dca83 6 Oct

Maybe you'll blame me buy I bought a couple hundreds Doge with sats because of upcoming Trump election

1 sat \ 2 replies \ @AG OP 6 Oct

Don't blame no one, just you should more careful with your sats ;)

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @030e0dca83 6 Oct

Thanks, mate. Hope I'll get it back, but Department of government efficiency doesn't leave my head