http://bitcoincity.us/map-listings/?h=738 and click on view all businesses or
http://usebitcoins.info/index.php/b...0;13;17;20;15;16;9;4;11;6;18;1;14;25;24;23;19
Researching stuff helps a lot, this was brought up on another forum which is why I know of the sites I linked to, along with about 3 mins of googling lol
I don't know how you think this
disproves what I'm saying. It shows exactly what I'm talking about.
By the most generous of those maps, there are about fifty places that take bitcoin
in the entire United States. And they are spread all over, so most of them are not going to be anywhere near where Bitcoing User X lives.
My point was not that about whether somewhere, somehow, bitcoin can be used to purchase a candy bar. My point is that for MOST people, where they live, cannot go to a local store and buy a candy bar with bitcoin. For instance, it turns out that in my neck of the woods (North Florida) I can use bitcoin to buy... guns*. From one store. YAY.
If I can't use the currency to buy stuff at the local supermarket or gas at the corner station, it's close to useless as a currency. It doesn't matter if there's a grocery store in Maine that takes bitcoin, that doesn't help me!
In general, people are using bitcoin to buy ordinary, every day stuff. Even if they wanted to, their options for bitcoin purchases are limited in any given region. And that's not likely to change, since the price of bitcoin fluctuates wildly from day to date and no major retailer is accept a currency that might double or halve in value overnight.
Buying exotic stuff, like drugs, seems to be the only area of purchasing where bitcoin has made real in-roads.
* Incidentally, any true blue libertarian isn't buying guns with bitcoin; he's printing them on his 3D printer!
