Ten Gifts You Can Buy Instantly with Bitcoin
Even If Your BFF Isn’t Into Silk Road
You need a last minute gift, and want to pay for it in bitcoin? Whether it’s for your lover or a Secret Santa whose name you just misspelled, this list has cool gifts you can buy without a single dollar. Most ship instantly via email or text message.
In the spirit of the season, Have Yourself A Very Bitcoin Christmas.
10. A Donation to Watsi
Watsi funds low cost high impact medical care for people in need. 100% of donations made via dollars, over the website, fund patient care. At this time, Bitcoin donations go towards Watsi’s overhead. This puts you in excellent company — Watsi’s organization expenses are funded by Y Combinator. Excellent for anyone with a heart. To donate via Bitcoin, go to Watsi’s “About page” and click on “Donate to Watsi’s Operational costs.”
9. Virgin Galactic
Send your loved ones to space! You can even go too. Virgin Galactic reports they have already sold at least one seat for bitcoin.All seats are $25K (before bitcoin conversion) so this gift is for when you are very fancy. And spacey. Very fancy spacey.
8. CheapAir
More interested in hitting the beach than in escaping the atmosphere?You can book a plane ticket with cheapair.com at the last possible minute, and still have a meaningful gift on the 25th. They’ll never know you waited until Tuesday at 3am to go shopping.
Jeff Klee, CEO of CheapAir, said “We’re intrigued by the growing bitcoin phenomenon and we are happy to provide bitcoin users an easy, secure way to book flights.”
7. eGifter
This is a decent Secret Santa gift, with the potential to be used for a romantic evening out. eGifter turns your bitcoins into gift cards at fandago, 1800flowers, barnes & nobles, gamestop and a range of other brands.
Win three ways — use your bitcoin, gift awesome DRM free games, and support charity. Your donations support the game developers, along with non-profits like Charity:Water and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Founded in 2009,City Wine Cellar is based out of Staten Island, NY. They accept bitcoin and ship nationally.
4. Bitbar
Buy your drink with bitcoin using the site (which was at capacity, unsurprisingly, on Saturday night.) Bitbar opens at 9pm. Purchase your drink, using the site.The bartender calls out your drink, under your alias. You claim your drink!
On using bircoin, Grouper CTO Tom Brown said “We’re building the bar of the future, and it’s clear to us that future consumers will be using some sort of cryptocurrency for their everyday transactions. It’s not clear if bitcoin is going to be the winner everywhere, but we love kicking the tires.”
Communications Manager Nikki Schlecker added “As the bar of the future, BitBar compliments Grouper’s mission to make the experience as easy and interesting as possible.”
3. BitDazzle
BitDazzle feels like a cross between Etsy and eBay, but with Bitcoin. Their headline reads “The best place to buy and sell with bitcoin.” Given their limited competition, this seems like a reasonable claim. Offerings like this Canon Powershot camera are reminiscent of a younger eBay. Overly whimsical items — like this “owl to keep you warm” — are very Etsy 2013. All with Bitcoin. BitDazzle is bigger on charm than on Dazzle, which should go over well with the early adopters.
Warm winter socks! Great gift for anyone old enough to think socks are rad. According to these socks are super warm but not itchy like wool. Grass Hill Alpacas has been featured on several bitcoin lists already, and with good reason. We’re grownups, it’s winter and we like warm socks.
- An actual bitcoin, in a wallet.
Buy a beautiful wallet (with dollars, or get this wallet from a verified seller on Bitdazzle) Set up a bitcoin wallet, and deposit the bitcoin there. Write up the instructions to the bitcoin wallet on a dollar-sized piece of paper, and place in the wallet. Or, if you are ready to get fancy, make a “bitcoin paper wallet.”
