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Understanding Modern HD Bitcoin Wallets

26 April 2018
Have you ever wondered how the “backup phrase” for your Bitcoin wallet can be used to “recover” your funds? And have you ever wondered whether (or how) you can use that same backup phrase across different Bitcoin-wallet applications — such as Ledger, Coinomi, and Bread Wallet?
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Thoughts on Bitcoin Cash (Bcash)

20 February 2018
Recently Roger Ver and Jameson Lopp faced off on the Tom Woods Show regarding the question of Bitcoin versus ‘Bitcoin Cash’ (aka Bcash). We usually try to steer clear of the “politics” of Bitcoin, but some observations may be valuable without taking sides.
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Introducing “Spendabit Discounts”

28 November 2017
Most serious Bitcoiners use their coins for one thing: to “hodl”. Real true-blue Bitcoin advocates may spend BTC, but usually just to incentivize adoption — Bitcoin altruism you might say. But today we're giving you an incentive to spend bitcoin, and hopefully an incentive to would-be Bitcoin users too.
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Bitcoin Black Friday, 2017

24 November 2017
Team Spendabit has been working hard on a number of new projects, and today, for Bitcoin Black Friday, we are taking the opportunity to “soft-launch” a much-needed service in the Bitcoin space.
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Summer Search Improvements

15 August 2017
We are constantly tweaking our search algorithms. In addition, importing new merchants requires relentless work on our product-indexing and crawling code. Hardly a week goes by without numerous small upgrades.
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Bitcoin's Volatility Is Okay (For Now)

27 June 2017
With the Bitcoin price having a mostly upward bias recently, volatility has been a less-cited argument against adoption of crypto-currencies. Much of the chatter about Bitcoin's (lack of) stability seems to have subsided. But while things are calm it's probably worth reminding ourselves that the volatility will in all likelihood return. But also, and more importantly, we should remember that that's okay.
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3-Million Products, and Counting!

3 May 2017
The attrition in the Bitcoin space has been relentless. The last few years have seen not only loads of small stores go out of business; a number of big retailers — most recently Rakuten.com — have stopped accepting Bitcoin as well.
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A Comment on the “Scaling Debate”

18 April 2017
Although we would like to remain as neutral as we can, perhaps a short statement regarding Spendabit's position on the ongoing “Scaling Debate” would not be inappropriate.
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Why Bitcoin Lets You “Be Your Own Bank”

15 February 2017
What does it mean to “Be Your Own Bank”, and why does Bitcoin make this possible?
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Bitcoin in, Gold Out: Buying Precious Metals with Bitcoin (And Vice Versa)

30 November 2016
Bitcoin has always drawn comparisons to gold, and since the ‘early days’ (ca., 2011) gold and silver have been a popular thing to spend one's bitcoins on. Back then, we had hobbyist-like outlets such as Coinabul (if not 100% reliable), and today we have more than half-a-dozen serious coin- and bullion-vending brokers — all listed on Spendabit!
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Why Bitcoin Is Not a Ponzi Scheme

18 October 2016
A popular smear against Bitcoin is to label it a “Ponzi scheme”. Recently, someone on Reddit was asking how to counter this claim. We took a little time to offer a response, and thought it worth expanding upon here.
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Announcing Region Support for the European Union

30 May 2016
Spendabit is pleased to announce the launch of Region Support (i.e., “localized” search) for all of the European Union. This presently includes more than one-hundred merchants from a dozen countries, but will include products from other EU countries as soon as Bitcoin-enabled merchants come online.
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May Is Art Month

3 May 2016
Spendabit supports the arts and growing the Bitcoin economy. Each week in May we will feature new Bitcoin-themed artwork.
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Announcing Bitcoin.com Search Integration

11 April 2016
Spendabit is pleased to announce our most notable search integration to date.
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A Pulse in 2016

31 March 2016
This is a pulse. (Note it, search-bots.)
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Announcing Spendabit ‘Search Partners’ Program

5 May 2015
Alongside our newly-revealed partnership with Ribbit.me, Spendabit is happy to announce the official launch of our Search Partners program.
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Full Speed Ahead

21 April 2015
Regular visitors to Spendabit and passers-by on our Twitter feed might have noticed a slow-down in new merchants recently. Even worse, you may have even experienced an outage of our website in recent weeks. We write to assure these are temporary phenomena, on the one hand due to some reorganization to our infrastructure, and on the other hand due to our working busily on a product we hope will make our efforts more sustainable.
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Questions From Bitwhispers

26 March 2015
Recently, we were asked by bitwhispers.com if we could answer a few questions about our service and about Bitcoin in general. See the exchange below to hear some of our thoughts on recent Bitcoin-related scams and hacks, what we see in store for the future of Bitcoin, and about some of the coals we have in the fire here at Spendabit.
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New Hampshire Liberty Forum

3 March 2015
Some of our team will be at the Free State Project's annual Liberty Forum event this weekend. Stop by our table and say hi if you're going to be there!
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Search Back Up, and New Back-End

2 March 2015
We were having some pretty serious, though intermittent, database issues over the course of the last week. We have not only tracked down and fixed that 'leak', but we have deployed a new backend for our Bitcoin Product Search Engine.
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An Open Letter to ‘Goldbugs’

7 January 2015
An increasing number of gold and general sound-money advocates have warmed up to Bitcoin in the last year or so, but most still appear to be skeptics.
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Should You Have Political Discussions?

30 December 2014
Will you discuss politics at your holiday gatherings this year?
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Clean Up, Clean Up

8 December 2014
If you're a regular user of our “search engine for things you can buy with Bitcoin”, you may have noticed an increasing number of out-of-stock product listings or altogether broken links lately. This is a quick note to let you know the problem is being actively worked on (and for many products it has already been solved).
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Experience of Bitcoin Disproves Keynesian Deflation Theory

2 December 2014
We've had a theory here at Spendabit, and with circumstantial evidence to support it, that people tend to spend fewer bitcoins when the Bitcoin price is down. But just last week, Adafruit (one of hundreds of Bitcoin-accepting merchants listed on Spendabit) put out a short blog-post featuring a chart giving further credence to our thesis, showing Adafruit's Bitcoin-based sales have gone down substantially over the past year, right alongside the market price for obtaining a bitcoin.
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Introducing Region Support — Find Products in Your Country, Pay With Bitcoin

25 November 2014
Spendabit is proud to announce the launch of our most requested feature to date, Region Support (aka, “Localization”) — just in time for the holiday shopping season.
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Why Not Bitcoin? Playing Devil's Advocate Against the World's Newest Kind of Money

12 November 2014
A little over a week ago we attended the Midwestern Bitcoin Conference at Purdue University and gave a talk entitled “Why NOT Bitcoin?” The premise: to put one's self in the shoes of the critics and find the best arguments against crypto-currency, Bitcoin in particular.
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One Step Closer to a Proper Blog

27 October 2014
To any passers-by, you may have noticed we're a little bit closer to having a proper blog — now with a proper landing page.
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Midwestern Bitcoin Conference (at Purdue)

27 October 2014
Just an FYI, some of our team will be attending the Midwestern Bitcoin Conference at Purdue University this Saturday. If you're going to be there, please come by and say hi!
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Bitcoin's Most Important ‘Feature’

1 October 2014
Last week someone on Reddit was having trouble grasping the virtues of Bitcoin versus good-old credit cards. He listed a number of perceived pros for Bitcoin, but also what he saw as its cons — summarized here:
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The Internet Was an Evolution, Bitcoin's a Revolution

22 September 2014
I've been saying it since I read the whitepaper: Bitcoin is the most important technological innovation since the Internet. Back then (in early 2011) it sounded crazy; today, lots of people say things like that.
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Calling Bitcoiners in the UK and Australia

12 September 2014
Do you love Bitcoin? Do you drive on the wrong side left side of the road?
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Welcome Amagi Metals to Millions of Things for Bitcoin

8 September 2014
Spendabit is happy to announce you can now find the excellent lineup of precious-metals coins, rounds, and bars from Amagi Metals amongst the millions of products we index — all purchasable with your favorite digital money, Bitcoin! Amagi Metals is a particularly notable addition to our roster — they've been a longstanding supporter of crypto-currencies, and honest forms of money in general; not to mention, they were one of the first precious metals dealers to accept Bitcoin.
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Despite Price Decline, Number of Things You Can Buy With Bitcoin on the Rise

19 August 2014
The price of Bitcoin may be in a downward trend, but the number of things you can buy with the world's premier crypto-currency most certainly is not.
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