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What was your first purchase made with BTC?

2427 sats \ 48 comments \ @Bitcoiner1 28 Aug bitcoin_beginners

We all know that spending SATs is way harder than spending dirty 💰 FIAT, but it's a necessary step in order to help BTC adoption.

I have bought some items and services during my orange life.

The first purchase I did using BTC as money was to buy an online course about trading...Big mistake, I know, sorry.

What was the first item or service that you bought using BTC as payment???

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32 sats \ 6 replies \ @siggy47 28 Aug

A cup of coffee at Dunkin Donuts through the Bitcoin Company. Some people say that doesn't count.

112 sats \ 5 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 28 Aug

They're right -- the stuff Dunkin serves should not count as actual coffee.

55 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 28 Aug

Our resident coffee snob. In my family this is the dialogue: "Ooh. This coffee has been sitting for hours. It's burnt. "

My wife: " Leave it. Dad will drink it. "

64 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 28 Aug

I will drink it too. Coffee is coffee. N it gives me an excuse to drink another cup

63 sats \ 2 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 28 Aug

In fairness, I'll drink the bad coffee, too. I just like being a snob about it.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 28 Aug

The difference is I don't know it's bad.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 29 Aug

I love being a coffee snob while drinking instant

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Taurus 2 Sep

The first, I send some sats to my brother after selling one of his books. Then if we talk about a real store/restaurant IRL, Not proud of it but probably a drink at mc Donalds

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @profullstack 29 Aug

i donated 1 btc to the libertarian party when it was $10/btc

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 29 Aug

Issue 1 Citadel 21 zine

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @wingalt 29 Aug

What bitcoin?

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @criptopanas 29 Aug

Some food in a restaurant.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @madisonsandoval 29 Aug

Nice try, IRS

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoingraffiti 29 Aug

CAPPUCCINO

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @q 28 Aug

burgers and beer somewhere around 2015 at Room 77 in Berlin, this was during a time when I did not practise spend and replace. Think it was like 0.27 BTC

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitcoiner1 OP 29 Aug

Legendary place! I've not been there, but I know it's a good place to go to.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @cyberduck00 29 Aug freebie

Believe it or not a Lego set.

111 sats \ 1 reply \ @PlebeiusG 29 Aug

POUNDS AND POUNDS OF BLOW FROM THE DREAD PIRATE

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 29 Aug

plz make this a song for real, 10/10 would rock

41 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 28 Aug

A nice bunch of [redacted]-infused tea and chocolate

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @riberet19 28 Aug

I bought some old video games from a friend of mine in exchange for Bitcoin, it was a good purchase.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @j7hB75 29 Aug

VPN subscription.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsMate 29 Aug

A bracelet from a local in El Salvador for $15 was the first purchase I made with Bitcoin :)

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @thecommoner 28 Aug

Soap - hehehe

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi 29 Aug

I never purchased any thing with Bitcoin. My only spending of sats for zapping and posting upto now.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 28 Aug

a satscard. i had to scrape up sats scattered around my practice wallets in order to make the transaction, and learned that not all wallets are connected the same way to the lightning network.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @drlh 28 Aug

Bought link with 100 sats to download a film. That site now is defunct. But hey still have that film!

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 28 Aug

festival tickets

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @oliverweiss 28 Aug

Coffee ☕️ 🙂

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 28 Aug

Silk Road (Free Ross): drugs

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 28 Aug

lsd iirc

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 28 Aug

I bought some bitcoin art with bitcoin. I have a couple pieces of Bitcoin art.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 28 Aug

When I started my journey in Bitcoin, the first thing I paid in satochis was a t-shirt I saw in a store in Spain.

130 sats \ 0 replies \ @DrStacker 28 Aug

a laptop

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 28 Aug

$15 worth of supermarket vouchers from Bitrefill

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @028559d218 28 Aug

Books. A paperback copy of the bitcoin standard over lightning. Still have it and love it!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ch0k1 28 Aug

I've been actively using Bitcoin as a medium of exchange for various goods and services since 2020

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCLNAT 28 Aug

The first item I bought with SATs was a book for 500 SATs titled "WE INVENTED BITCOIN" which was very interesting to me, it was an educational purchase and I do not regret it. Many people use their SATs for purchases of necessary items not related to Bitcoin and that is part of the Circular Economy. In my case I am in favor of it, but also of buying elements associated with Bitcoin such as: paying for courses on Bitcoin, supporting educational projects about Bitcoin, Hardware Wallet to increase the security of our funds. In the long term, that investment in our education and security is smart and returns.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @beorange 28 Aug

Pizza, no middlemen

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bitcoiner1 OP 29 Aug

2 pizzas for 10.000 BTC???

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @beorange 29 Aug

ahah, unfortunately no, I never had 10k BTC in my life, not even close to that.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpacePirate 28 Aug

I bought a Blue Canary Nightlight (inspired by the TMBG song) for 17 BTC in 2010. Was GPU mining and just messing around. If only I’d held on to what I mined instead…

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Golu 28 Aug

I'm gonna purchase when I've some significant amounts of Sats. I'm enjoying my early days in Bitcoin. I'm a newbie, you can call!!

May be, if I can in India I'm gonna buy one luxury watch!!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satoshi__Nakamoto 28 Aug

I did mobile top up via btc

In our country Nepal bitcoin is not legal yet

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @frostdragon 28 Aug

Hm... I think here and Nostr are the only placed I've spent sats. Otherwise I be stackin

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 28 Aug

A Steam game on Joltfun.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ravener 28 Aug

I play this addicting rhythm game called osu! and while the game is free they offer these osu!supporter benefits for those who want to support it.

It accepted quite a lot of payment methods and one that caught my eye was BitPay, wait a minute, I can buy osu!supporter with cryptocurrency?

I could not hold my urge and I asked a friend to lend me some BTC, and I went ahead to do it. though the item was supposed to be $4 I ended up paying over $7 due to BitPay and on-chain network transaction fees, this was way before I learned about the lightning network, in fact, I only discovered lightning these past days and it's unbelievable!

Still, that's what got me interested in crypto and finally seeing what spending it felt like because I never thought anyone would use Bitcoin as a payment method, it was this weird internet token that stock market nerds look at the graphs, I thought.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @aljaz 28 Aug

renting dedicated servers and domains