exchanging bitcoin for gold was my first transaction.  of course, I did that in my first bear market when I started to wonder about the value of bitcoin.  The year was 2015.  and funny enough, I bought the gold from Peter Schiff cie!!!  So i would say that they have been accepting bitcoin (maybe not all crypto) for much longer.

This was the worst mistake of my life as I traded all my bitcoins for 1oz of a shiny rock.  I thought i could mine the bitcoins again... little did i know how much harder it was about to become. 

But on a positive note, this was also the best learning episode of my bitcoin journey.  you could actually get real world value with my fake digital money mined in my garage.... i was hooked...