Bitcoin Store opens: All Your Electronics Cheaper With Bitcoins

The Bitcoin community's largest electronics retailer, the Bitcoin Store, has announced that it is exiting beta and formally launching its business. The Bitcoin Store offers hundreds of thousands of different electronics products for sale, and since the site's first beta launch in November its main attraction has been low prices; in fact, the Bitcoin Store's prices were even cheaper than those available at major retailers like Amazon and NewEgg. Roger Ver's announcement in November provided some examples: a 60-inch TV which can be found on Amazon for $1,397.99, NewEgg for $1,437.99 but on....

The BitcoinStore, a very popular electronics retailer in the Bitcoin community, has announced that has managed to keep its contract with its wholesaler, and so will continue be able to continue selling goods at its current low prices. The store first launched in November 2012 with a simple proposition: hundreds of thousands of electronics products for sale for bitcoin, all cheaper than anywhere else on the internet - major retailers like Amazon and NewEgg included. Because the BitcoinStore is Bitcoin-only, it would not have to pay any of the costs associated with accepting credit cards,....

Mintspare has considerably simplified the means of acquiring bitcoins by enabling users to trade in their old, even broken electronics for cold hard crypto. Mintspare will take your old MacBook, iPod, smartphone, tablet and even your old camera and lenses and turn it into bitcoins. Also, if you have any electronics you think they might take, try it, because they do take special requests. Mintspare came into fruition to solve a well-known issue: the numerous processes necessary to take in order to acquire Bitcoin: linking your bank account, giving up information you want to protect, etc.....

Purse.io has opened the very first bitcoin retail store in the Mission District of San Francisco to promote the use of the currency in brick and mortar stores. Named after the pseudo-anonymous founder of the digital currency, Nakamoto’s Electronics sells a host of items, along with a 10% discount on anything bought with bitcoin. The store currently sells consumer electronics, locally made artisan clothing and arts, and many other items. “San Francisco needs a killer Bitcoin merchant and store. Despite what the rest of the world thinks, there are very few practical merchants that accept....

Disclaimer: BitStamp has previously run ads in an edition of the Bitcoin Magazine print edition. This article was written independently of this fact, and the author was not aware of the fact at the time of the article's writing. Bitcoin exchanges are one of the most important parts of the Bitcoin ecosystem. For those of us who are not lucky enough to have wealthy Bitcoin-owning friends or jobs paying in BTC, they provide a valuable service by making it possible for Bitcoin users to buy and sell bitcoins without finding someone to trade with on their own. For those who use Bitcoin as a way....