PalenQ

a traveler may want to spend money?

Hotels, restaurants, etc. - just curious if anyone has ever seen Bit Coins being accepted as money in European tourist things - not that I have Bit Coins or plan to but just curious.

flanneruk

Bit Coins don't exist.

There are a few bricks & mortar places tourists might encounter that accept Bitcoin.

There's even a decal for retailers, as this story shows:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28816975

Slightly more tourist-oriented:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...in-the-UK.html

Bitcoin's semi-official listing of physical availability:
http://coinmap.org/

PalenQ

Thanks flanner for your as usual intensely erudite info.

Bitcoins have one advantage it seems - no currency exchange charges, etc. and accepted all over the world (at a few places).

flanneruk

"accepted all over the world "

I think you'll find the € and US$ (and probably the Bangladeshi Taka and Azeri Manat) are accepted infinitely more widely.

PalenQ

Two bits was always 50 cents in U.S. coins - now a different meaning for 'shave and a haircut, two bits'.