Bitcoin is gaining more and more recognition in the world. You can use it to pay for your Twitch subscription, buy plane tickets, book a hotel, and much more. We will tell you which services accept digital money.
1. For travelers
Tourism is one of the areas that is adapting the fastest to dealing with digital assets. You can book a hotel almost anywhere in the world by paying with cryptocurrency using the travala.com service. It provides more than 3 million objects, BTC, ETH and 28 more coins are accepted for settlements. Travala.com also gives customers the option to buy plane tickets with cryptocurrency. AirBaltic has a similar option it added the option to pay with bitcoin in 2014. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic began accepting BTC a year earlier.
2. For video game lovers
For traders who are fond of video games, a separate payment method was introduced by the streaming service Twitch. Its users can buy a subscription by paying with cryptocurrency. Now there is a promotion: when using digital assets, you can get a 10% discount. You can buy video games themselves using cryptocurrency, as well as the Xbox console and other products in this direction in the official Xbox Store. To do this, the user needs to create an account on the Microsoft website and select BTC as the payment method. This option has been in effect since 2014.
3. For traders and investors
Actively trading users rarely do without special services such as TradingView. Especially for crypto traders, this platform has introduced the ability to pay in cryptocurrency. You can pay in Bitcoin, the transaction will go through the Coinbase exchange. Investors can use cryptocurrency to buy hardware wallets. Ledger sells its digital asset storage devices for Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash through Bitpay.
4. Electronics, books, clothing
The American online electronics store Newegg also accepts cryptocurrency for payment. Here you can buy a printer, a computer and accessories, a virtual reality helmet and many other equipment. The transaction will also go through the Bitpay payment system. An even greater variety of goods can be bought with cryptocurrency on Amazon. The service itself does not accept digital money. But for these purposes, you can make a purchase through a gift card. Such services are offered by the Bitrefill, Purse, CoinCards platforms.
5. Crypto card
Holders of cryptocurrency can find places where it is accepted for payment using the coinmap.org interactive card. On it you can filter what exactly the user is interested in: shops, restaurants, entertainment, cryptomats, and more. The card is valid all over the world.
6. “Useless bitcoin”
Most of the named companies do not accept cryptocurrency directly. They use processing services such as Bitpay. The firm receives Bitcoin, converts it to the settlement currency, and then transfers the funds to the seller. For this operation, the user pays 1% commission. Bitpay is owned by billionaire Mark Cuban. Despite the fact that his service is tied to working with cryptocurrency, the businessman has repeatedly criticized bitcoin for its lack of application in real life, called it useless and compared it to bananas. The latter turned out to be better.
