The foundation would be
(1) food (
not much going on)
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130417-908270.html?mod=googlenews_wsj(2) rent (ontario, NYC, somewhere-else-in-the-US-can't-remember, Germany)
(3) energy (not much going on)
(4) health services (dentist in Finland)
(5) salaries (archive.org, p2p foundation) Lots of freelancers are doing more and more business in Bitcoin (me included)
(6) entertainment (
?) many, many artists are selling their albums and artwork for bitcoin. Mostly indies at this point. But I see a new announcement every day almost. For example:
http://i.imgur.com/cnE0ISm.pngMade a few additions. It's a good list. I like it as a foundation for consumer Bitcoin use.
But I like the idea of Bitcoins for commodities, too.
The problem is that these services are spread across the world, a side effect of a global decentralized economy.
We must have at least a small micro-community adopting it, anyone interested in buying a town?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buford,_Wyominghttp://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/09/us-usa-town-auction-idUSBRE83802Q20120409Edit: There are a few more towns for sale, and if we pool the money we might be able to buy one collectively and shit will definitely get serious!
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/12-towns-sale-pray-mont-auction-launches/story?id=16653510#.UXCDCqJZ3AMBtw, any product purchased in fiat currency and sold in bitcoins should be considered an imported good... until it is solely 100% produced/sustained under bitcoin economy.
Edit 2: Maybe not as extreme as buying a town (although it would be really cool), but organizing local communities to accept bitcoins.
The real problem is that we have all these goods and services spread around the world, it is extremely impractical unless it is a specialty item.
For things we need day to day, we must need a local community accepting bitcoins in every major city or town.
