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From the Belly of the Bear

2022 Jul 15
Stay tuned.
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Advancing Bitcoin Through Real-World Transactions

2021 Aug 24
On the road between here and a world where Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies reach their full potential, there’s still a lot of uncertainty. But amidst that uncertainty is opportunity, and it’s good to see organizations like liv.rent pushing the envelope in a positive direction.
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Announcing "Alts" Support: Find Places to Spend Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and More

2021 Jul 28
So, what are you waiting for? See what you can buy with the world's best money, and get listed on Spendabit if you're a crypto-enabled business.
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Understanding Modern HD Bitcoin Wallets

2018 Apr 26
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)

2018 Feb 20
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”

2017 Nov 28
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

2017 Nov 24
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

2017 Aug 15
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)

2017 Jun 27
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!

2017 May 3
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”

2017 Apr 18
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”

2017 Feb 15
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)

2016 Nov 30
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

2016 Oct 18
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

2016 May 30
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

2016 May 3
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

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

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

2015 May 5
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

2015 Apr 21
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

2015 Mar 26
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

2015 Mar 3
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

2015 Mar 2
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’

2015 Jan 7
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?

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

2014 Dec 8
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

2014 Dec 2
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

2014 Nov 25
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

2014 Nov 12
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

2014 Oct 27
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)

2014 Oct 27
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’

2014 Oct 1
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

2014 Sep 22
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

2014 Sep 12
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

2014 Sep 8
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

2014 Aug 19
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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