Using Bitcoin and Crypto to Make Purchases

Using Bitcoin and Crypto to Make Purchases

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Welcome to the New to Crypto Podcast designed to guide you through the crypto landscape with pinpoint accuracy created for the new and intermediate crypto investor. Join your host Crypto Travels Michael as he takes you through the different facets of getting started and succeeding in your crypto journey. New to Crypto Podcast brings you new episodes daily, Monday through Friday with surprise bonus episodes sometimes on the weekend.

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Let me ask you, are you new to crypto and don’t know where to start? Are you more experienced and have questions? Then you’re in the right place. This podcast is designed for you. Now here’s your host Crypto Travels Michael.

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Using Bitcoin and crypto to make purchases? What can I buy with Bitcoin or other altcoins? Can I buy a car? Can I buy a house? Can I go on vacation and pay in crypto for the flight hotel and all of the activities while on the trip? The answer is yes.

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You can now buy many things using your crypto. The pace for today’s issue has numerous links sharing with you different places where you can make purchases using crypto. Actually, the website Travala.com, which is like hotels, or hotwire accepts Bitcoin for payment and dozens of other cryptocurrencies, which is awesome. I’m on their site right now. And I count at least 47 different cryptocurrencies that they accept for payment, the prices on chavalla for hotels, and everything else is quite good.

01:56

I’m on the site right now looking at hotels and Cancun. And I see many summer sales for different hotels of all types. So now you know where you can book your next trip or vacation and pay for it using cryptocurrency. You can also give to your favorite charity using crypto. Many charities now accept crypto.

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I know one large crypto investor who trades cryptocurrencies. When he is done trading he likes to give to some charities, he will only give to charities who accept crypto, because it’s most convenient for him. All he has to do is send Bitcoin or another crypto from his wallet to their wallet, the whole process takes him less than a minute. The great thing about this is the charity has the funds immediately without delay after they’re verified on the blockchain. Another way you can spend using your crypto is to get a crypto credit or debit card backed by your crypto. This allows you to make purchases worldwide using Visa or MasterCard. There are different crypto credit cards out there. Some allow you to make a monthly payment, just like your regular credit cards. Some of these credit cards, crypto cards, work like a debit card, they just subtract crypto from your account. Either way, it opens up new possibilities and buying power for people to use crypto as a payment system and do it daily.

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Let me ask you, how would you like to shop on Amazon, eBay and Walmart online and have the ability to pay in crypto? Well, you can thanks to shopping.io

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you can now shop online and purchase items from Amazon, eBay and Walmart and payment can be made in any one of 100 different cryptocurrencies and you can receive free shipping.

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You can also shop at overstock.com and pay in Bitcoin. Now you can buy almost anything you need to furnish your house on overstock.com and pay in Bitcoin.

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Now you can also buy all of your electronics online and pay with Bitcoin. At new egg. New egg accepts payment in Bitcoin.

04:39

You can shop online at Home Depot and Walmart using allegoria.com and pay in crypto. It looks like four different cryptos are accepted, including Bitcoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin cash, and Zcash.

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Did you know you can buy your domain names using Bitcoin on namecheap, as well as your other hosting needs.

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Another way to spend crypto is to purchase gift cards, either for someone else, perhaps for a birthday or a holiday coming up, or just shop for yourself. Coincards.com allows you to spend on numerous different cryptocurrencies and buy gift cards from the top retailers in the United States and Canada.

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You can go on vacation and buy Airbnb gift cards using crypto at coin cards calm you can also buy amazon gift cards, gift cards from Bass Pro Shops, Bed Bath and Beyond, amc movie theaters, Burger King, Olive Garden Crate and Barrel, Carter’s, CVS pharmacy, Domino’s Pizza, the Gap, you can buy a guitar at Guitar City.

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You can also buy a gift card at Home Depot, Hulu, for Hotels.com, H&M, Lowe’s, even Morton’s Steakhouse, which I’ve been to, by the way in numerous cities, great food, the NFL shop, you can use crypto to buy their gift card, eBay, GameStop, Google Play, Nordstrom, Nordstrom Rack, Papa John’s Pizza, PetSmart,PF Changs which I really enjoy. Regal Cinema, Pottery Barn, Red Lobster, which my grandma loves. Sony PlayStation Plus, Starbucks, Southwest Airlines, Top Golf, Cheesecake Factory, even Uber and Uber Eats, William Sonoma, Xbox Live membership and so many more retailers.

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In Canada, you can buy prepaid Visa and MasterCard gift cards using crypto on the same website. They offer hundreds of retailers in Canada as well. The link to the list is on our site, which should be in the description of today’s episode. In Canada, you can also buy gift card credit to pay for or load credit on your phone. All major carriers seem to be covered including TELUS, Virgin mobile, Rogers and more.

07:36

Coincard says that they are adding the United Kingdom soon, which opens up new purchasing options throughout the UK. So as you can see, you can spend and incorporate crypto into your daily life and use it as a payment system. A borderless method of payment to buy virtually anything.

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 Other places that you can use and spend crypto online casinos,

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Online brokers where you can trade stocks, binary options and more. 

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Another thing you can buy using crypto is gold. Yes physical gold coins or gold bars as well as silver and platinum coins or bars.

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You can also pay using crypto to store your precious metals in a safety deposit box. 

08:28

Can I pay for my VPS? My virtual private server that hosts my company’s websites using crypto? The answer is definitely yes. There are many options earlier in this episode. I mentioned that you could buy cars and houses using crypto.

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Well, you definitely can sites like bithome.ch allow you to buy properties around the world using Bitcoin prices are actually in Bitcoin for example. A lot currently on there in Florida is priced at half a Bitcoin. There’s another luxury property in Europe that’s priced at 32 Bitcoin. So the pricing is actually priced in Bitcoin.

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You can also buy luxury cars on sites like bitcar.eu for your next Ferrari, Bugatti Bentley or BMW, they can all be bought using You got it, Bitcoin. 

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If you’d like to buy a more regular day to day car using Bitcoin head over to auto coin cars.com you can shop on there from everything from Ford cars, to Nissan to Honda’s to Volkswagens to Range Rovers, even Bugatti or Hummers available, and of course, Dodge, Chevy Chrysler and Rolls Royce are available as well. And many more car brands also carries nice

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Georgia allows Bitcoin for payment on all of their different cars. From the look at their website, they have a great selection of many different types of vehicles.

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As time goes on, I will add to the list of all the places where you can shop and spend using crypto that I can find. Each month more and more businesses start accepting crypto as payment, and I will be on top of this.

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I recently just read an article that Visa is going to be offering and implementing tens of millions of their retailers and businesses worldwide. The option to accept crypto is payment. So head over to our website. The title is the name of today’s episode for all the links about what I had mentioned today. So this concludes using crypto to make purchases. Until the next one.

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