It's that time of the year to start planning your Christmas gifts. Here are 6 things you can buy with bitcoin this Christmas.
One of the things that becomes worrisome during Christmas is gifting, especially when your loved ones live many kilometers away from you.
My best friend has been in the USA since 2019 and there were moments I wished I could send her a present in her favorite color. But, since I read the article about how Mary sent her secret Santa a gift abroad using bitcoin, I have been looking forward to doing the same.
While giving gifts takes a big portion of the festive season, there are other soul-lifting activities during Christmas which bitcoin helps fill the gaps. Activities such as Christmas shopping, donating, traveling, and a lot more. In this article, I will be sharing 6 different things you can buy with bitcoin this Christmas.
Treating Someone to a Meal
We all know how food lights up almost everybody’s mood, and one of the most thoughtful things is buying someone their favorite meal without asking for it. How bitcoin helps in this situation is that you can treat someone to a meal from anywhere in the world. All you need to do is to purchase vouchers with bitcoin from any restaurant/food delivery service listed on Bitrefill — a good example is UberEats, which is available in almost all countries.
Airline Tickets
Traveling is one of the things that almost everyone has on their bucket list in December. Buying your airline tickets with bitcoin is a plus because of the instability of the local currencies. As expected, tickets would be more expensive than usual.
During my research, I stumbled on a website that receives bitcoin as a mode of payment. Isn’t that cool? This airline website is not limited to geographical locations. You can book your flight and pay with bitcoin.
Christmas Hamper
Whether you are buying a Christmas hamper for yourself or as a gift for someone else, you can easily purchase a gift card from your favorite supermarket on Bitrefill and you get to pay with bitcoin via the lightning network in seconds using your Bitnob app. All you have to do is download the Bitnob app, create an account, and pay with the lightning invoice generated on Bitrefill for the item you want to buy.
The Dip
As funny as this might seem, the best time to buy more bitcoin is now, despite its price drop. The reason is that bitcoin is going at a "discount". When the price of bitcoin increases, so will your bitcoin. You'd be happy you bought bitcoin when the price is low. We know that bitcoin will not crash. This is because of bitcoin's fundamentals. Since bitcoin is a scarce asset, the price of bitcoin will go up.
Start your bitcoin savings plan, it’s the best gift you can give yourself. On Bitnob, you can create a savings plan that runs automatically according to the intervals you have set. Click here to see how to easily set up a savings plan on Bitnob.
Christmas Sweaters/Pyjamas
Based on preferences, people love to cozy up with family members in their Christmas sweaters or PJs, just to create memories. This moment of love can start by purchasing these clothes from online fashion stores that accept the use of gift cards. You can buy gift cards from fashion stores such as ASOS, H&M, Marks & Spencer, and even Amazon to purchase the Christmas sweaters and PJs of your choice.
Donation to a Cause
It is not all Christmassy yet if it doesn’t have an element of giving. There are a lot of projects that you can support with bitcoin. We are all looking forward to fast-tracking the use of bitcoin all over the world. Therefore, if you find a group taking donations for the cause, you can send some bitcoin to their wallets.
You can also donate to worthy causes like the initiative of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) to help displaced communities in Northern Nigeria. They’re using the Bitnob for Business donation platform to enable them to receive donations in bitcoin. You can click here to donate to their cause. Every satoshi counts.
There have been controversies about what to buy and what not to buy with bitcoin, most especially in African countries. The good news is, there are platforms like Bitnob to leverage, regardless of your location. Would you like to buy the above-mentioned things with bitcoin? Click here to download the Bitnob app, and feel free to share it with friends — they’d need it this season.