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Recently, I finally decided to use some of my Bitcoin profit to purchase a 2 night hotel stay at the Hyatt in Waikiki, Oahu for my 30th birthday in January. I booked my Expedia stay on December 18, for two nights in January. On that day, Bitcoin was on average trading around 19, USD more or less.
Expedia actually doesn't handle or grab your Bitcoins directly, rather they use a third-party handler to do the transaction, and that happens to be Coinbase. You must have an account with Expedia in order to transact with Bitcoin. When you click on the Bitcoin option, it will lead you to the third party site Coinbase from which Coinbase will display a wallet address with which you send the Bitcoin too. It's also timed-out at 15 minutes, but that's actually plenty of time for one to get their Bitcoin address and send Bitcoin.
Now the biggest thing I was afraid of is when I clicked "Sent" to the wallet address, that the dreadful long wait of my Bitcoins would take forever to get to Coinbase. But to my surprise, the transaction went through within 5 seconds.
I'm deducing that Coinbase is taking the payments in one confirmation, so that transactions would happen faster. Literally the next day on December 19, So it's best to use your Bitcoin for purchases when Bitcoin is at its peak so that you are only giving away as less amount of Bitcoin as possible.
Of course, Bitcoin still has opportunity to break above 20, USD in the future, so it would make the 0. And specifically that we should use portions of it for services, goods, or vacations! Excellent, do all the worldwide Expedia sites accept Bitcoin? Enjoy your and happy birthday my friend: But like you said, the fact that I got a hotel purchase using BTC does show that cryptocurrencies is a major contender in credibility!
I bought a biscuit at a coffee shop near my house when btc was around Wish I had that back now I had heard that Expedia took Bitcoin as form of payment and wanted to try it out myself. For the purchase I made that day, around 0. Authors get paid when people like you upvote their post. Haha, that's one expensive biscuit when you think about it in today's BTC price! Not as bad as the pizzas.