Beers, Bagels and Zombies: Surviving Las Vegas with Bitcoin

Coin Desk ^ | 5 January | Pete Rizzo

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Whether you’re in Las Vegas, Nevada for the annual Inside Bitcoins Convention or just traveling for a legal way to party Silk Road-style, this desert boomtown is sure to tap your wallet with its world-class destinations that indulge any and all passions.

Now, you likely know the big attractions – Caesars Palace’s opulent Roman architecture, the Bellagio’s serene fountains, but Vegas is also home to a burgeoning underground bitcoin community that is just as happy to empty your digital currency reserves.

Even better with gift card providers like Gyft offering access to merchants, retailers and daily deal providers on their networks, you can craft a whole vacation around your coin expenditures – even if you need to find some creative hacks to really do Vegas right.

Need more proof? CoinDesk sent its experts to put the City of Sin on a 48-hour joyride. Here’s our multimedia play-by-play to inform your next Vegas retreat.

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Related:

Jim Rogers Warns "Bernanke Has Set The Stage For The Fed's Collapse

During the currency crisis that occurred in the Weimar Republic, supplemental currencies were printed by some towns and used as a sort of local script for commerce. If the Fed/Dollar were to collapse, I would think gold/silver (some states are making preparing for this eventuality) and perhaps some flavor of crytocurrency might come into significant use.

[rellimpank]

-—hmmm—wonder if any of the “entertainment” service girls accept Bitcoin?

[PoloSec]

Six weeks ago you could barely find any positive info on bitcoin, it really hasn’t even yet begun.

[cloudmountain]

-—hmmm—wonder if any of the “entertainment” service girls accept Bitcoin?

You mean, you wonder if those prostitutes have their PIMP'S, MADAME'S and/or BROTHEL'S permission to accept the bitcoin? I bet they don't.
Hmmm, I wonder if they do take credit cards? That would be a hoot.

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Sorry, you’re out of luck. It only mentions “Beers, Bagels and Zombies”. lol

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True

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Bitcoin is bumping $950 on Mt. Gox. Once it gets past $1,000 again, it will run head on into the price of gold. If it passes gold, look out! That will also be the time that governments and central banks will really go to war against it, IMO.

[rellimpank]

-yep—they do take credit cards—smartphones made that possible years ago—

[Vermont Lt]

Consider, if they had accepted it one year ago, they would be multi millionaires now.

Just saying.

[Vermont Lt]

In NV brothels are legal. Yes they take credit cards.

Do you watch any TV? Ha ha.

[maine yankee]

Prostitution is illegal in Clark county.(Las Vegas)

In LV, most everbody takes plastic.

Taxis,limos, even parking lots.

About 14 years ago I had a delivery from a concrete outfit.

The driver whipped out his nextel phone,swiped my card, and e-mailed me a reciept.

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Video at link.

[Vermont Lt]

According to my wife, she is happy I got that one wrong.