125 sats \ 1 reply \ @pillar OP 30 Jul 2022 \ parent \ on: Want to buy bitcoin physically? bitcoin
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Besides the exchanges houses, I also saw a couple of stores with "Bitcoin accepted here signs". They where mainly small, luxury items stores (jewelry, watches, etc). Although I'm not sure if that was truly to date, since current regulation in Turkey forbids using cryptocurrencies for commercial transactions
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200 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical 30 Jul 2022
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Some day, I hope to!!
[...] current regulation in Turkey forbids using cryptocurrencies for commercial transactions
That's really unfortunate. In another country where a similar ban exists, I know some freelancers who are paid in bitcoin. They know which merchants they can spend at -- even though there's no pin on CoinMap.org for them nor any "bitcoin accepted" signage in the shop. So bitcoin continues to be used just that it isn't advertised.
There is another place I've been where the hotel concierge knew offhand nearly a dozen restaurants and tourist spots where bitcoin was accepted. Here too there was no "bitcoin accepted" advertising or anything, just word of mouth.
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