Britcoin worked for me. Just waiting on some more funds to arrive to convert into BTC!

Would be better if there were some competing ones!

The anonymity isn't absolute, but surely it's more so than using your credit card? I was meaning legal-only porn. Just for a person's own personal privacy, rather than to hide some 'wrongdoing'.

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Just seeing if anyone would want/use a map of known real-world shops/businesses that take BTC. If you know one, add to the map.

(This map also exists, but I thought one that was restricted to actual IRL shops might be useful.)

Also spotted this map

It has a few more things on it. I expect (hope) that, with listing traders/users geographically, the map might get a little cramped. So the one for  IRL businesses only might still be worth updating.

Hello from Manchester!

I only know of this veg stall so I've added it to this map.

Add any businesses you know! [will xpost elsewhere].

Where?

There should be a map of retailers who accept bitcoins.

My cyberpunk (novels) reading never got further than Neuromancer, perhaps now is the time. Is Cryptonomicon better than Snow Crash?

How much does it talk about the bitcoin-like currency?

Not for long!

Porn supposedly was the reason VHS beat Betamax. Could this be how BTC becomes established? The anonymous element of it is obviously desirable to many in this instance.

Hello.

I'm terribly English.

I did suggest a laptop on the stall. It rains an awful lot in Manchester and the stall isn't particularly well covered. Maybe not the best idea. I reckon password-protected phone apps that connect to secure online wallets would be best. The relatively high value of single BTCs would mean you would have to buy a LOT of fruit & veg at once, or somehow give change in decimals? Those bitbills seemed to be in 1BTC-20BTC denominations.

As someone mentioned, might not be best suited to this sort of exchange (maybe a 'subscription service' where you paid for a month's veg in advance or something.). Still, the novelty is amusing.

Yep. It obviously requires planning beforehand. Depends on how bitcoin goes with app-wallets and such I suppose. And whether the waiting-for-confirmation can be sped up (although people used to trust cheques that took a few days etc.)

Anyway, if I'm the only one who trades with them through BTC I don't mind.

My first BTC trade is with my local fruit & veg stall. In Manchester, UK. An excellent roadside stall (that was recently threatened by 'gentrification', but saved due to a facebook outcry) mentioned, jokingly on twitter, that they would accept bitcoin. I said I'd hold them to their promise and explained how to set up an account. Getting my £5/(~0.4BTC)'s worth of Fruit & Veg tomorrow!

Don't know if they're planning to accept BTC generally or whether this is an experiment. I'll encourage them though.

Anyone else get anything as basic as your bananas through bitcoin?