DAFTAR TOKO YANG MENERIMA BITCOIN DI INDONESIA

Di Indonesia saja ada lebih dari 10 tempat di mana kita bisa berbelanja dengan menggunakan Bitcoin. Berikut daftarnya:

Upstairs bar & café
Cikini Raya no. 45
Cikini — Jakarta

Symbian
Toko Telepon Seluler
Jln. Moneng Sepati, No.66
Lubuk Linggau — Sumatera Selatan

Dwijaya Photographer
Jl. Muhtar Lutfi No. 14
Bulukumba — Sulawesi Selatan.

PT. Sinar Daku
Pabrik Selang PVC
Jl Prof Dr Latumenten Gg Hasbilan 3 no 11
Jakarta Barat 11330 — DKI Jakarta

BTC-indo.com
situs online yang menjual Berbagai Macam Bitcoin Asic Miner
Jakarta & Surabaya

Elektronika-sakinah
Aksesoris HP
Jakarta Timur — DKI Jakarta

Seta Moda
Toko tekstik & service fashion design
Ruko Paskal Hypersquare B-69, Jl. Hos Cokroaminoto (Pasir kaliki) — Bandung

Wijaya Motor
Dealer & Bengkel Resmi Sepeda Motor Honda
Jl. Jendral Sudirman 257 — Bandung

MVT (www.magicinkremover.com)
Toko online penghapus tinta
Jakarta

Semesta Rental Car
Menyewakan Kijang Innova, All New Avanza dan All New Xenia. Lengkap dengan sopir.
Bisa keliling dalam kota maupun luar kota.
Jalan Utari 1B no. 1. Pondok Indrapasta, Semarang. HP: 0821 3678 9758
Uang Kuno (uangkuno.net)
Online shop yang melayani jual beli uang kuno

FastCell (fastcell.net)

Pulsa, voucher game, token PLN

Faiyo (faiyo.net)
Toko online distro pertama di Indonesia yang menerima bitcoin

CilukBa (cilukba.co.id)
Online shop berbagai baju anak dan mainan anak

Grosirmu (grosirmu.com)
Online Shop berbagai peralatan rumah tangga, fashion dan kebutuhan lainnya

Republik Host (republikhost.com)
Layanan hosting dan domain

Hobi House (hobihouse.com)
Online shop berbagai perlengkapan souvernir, goody bag dan bedding set bayi dan anak

Cinta Bahasa Indonesia Language School (cintabahasa.com)
Kursus Bahasa Indonesia
Bali

Perkakasku.com
Jual segala macam perkakas secara online dan offline. Sempet diliput techinasiahttp://id.techinasia.com/perkakasku-ecommerce-pelopor-perkakas-indonesia/Jl Ahmad Yani no 350
Bandung

Pho.bi.a Shop
Boutiq pakaian dan asesoris wanita
Jl. Kemuning no 11
Bandung

Delmare Snack
DBS Tower, Gepi Office, Lantai 9. Ciputra World 1,
Jalan Prof. Dr. Satrio Kav 3-5
Jakarta

Mau Tuku
Taman Sentosa Blok D12/19
Cikarang

APA ITU BITCOIN?

Dulu orang bertransaksi dengan cara barter. Cara barter ini tidak efisien karena cukup susah juga cari orang mau menukar sesuatu yang kita miliki dengan keinginan kita.

Lalu dicarilah sesuatu yang diterima bersama sebagai alat tukar. Sesuatu itu harus awet, mudah dibawa, langka dan tentunya diterima banyak orang. Ditemukanlah logam berwarna kuning yang bernama emas yang digunakan sebagai alat tukar.

Karena menyimpan dan membawa emas dirasa masih cukup merepotkan. Di pasar-pasar tersedia jasa penitipan emas bernama BANK. Dimana emas yang kita miliki dapat kita titipkan di Bank dan kita diberikan kertas sertifikat bukti penitipan emas. Kertas sertifikat ini adalah cikal bakal uang kertas modern. Pada saat itu Bank mendapatkan keuntungan dari jasa penitipan emas dan bunga dari mereka yang meminjam pada Bank.

Lama kelamaan uang kertas tidak lagi dijamin dengan emas. Tetapi diterbitkan dengan jumlah yang diatur oleh Bank Sentral. Sebagai pengguna uang kita percaya sepenuhnya pada Bank Sentral sebagai penerbit uang. Kita percaya Bank Sentral dengan bijak menerbitkan uang, mengatur tingkat suku bunga dengan baik dan mengeluarkan kebijakan-kebijakan moneter yang baik. Jika Bank Sentral melakukan kecurangan dan tidak lagi dipercaya, maka mata uang yang diterbitkan pun tidak laku.

Pada tahun 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto menemukan ide sebuah alat tukar digital yang tidak diatur oleh bank sentral (atau otoritas apapun) dan memiliki konsep & sifat-sifat yang persis seperti logam mulia. Alat tukar digital ini bernama Bitcoin. Bitcoin dihasilkan seperti emas bahkan memiliki sifat-sifat persis seperti emas yang langka, awet dan mudah di bawa kemanapun. Selain itu Bitcoin juga mudah dibagi ke dalam jumlah yang lebih kecil, mudah dikirim ke seluruh dunia dengan cepat, dan anonim.

Bitcoin bukanlah sebuah bisnis, perusahaan apalagi money game. Bitcoin adalah komoditas digital yang dapat dijadikan alat tukar. Sebuah logam mulia digital.

Bagaimana Memulainya?

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Dompet Bitcoin (Bitcoin Wallet) adalah aplikasi yang digunakan untuk mengirim, menerima dan menyimpan Bitcoin.

Bagaimana Mendapatkan Bitcoin?

Pertanyaan ini sama seperti “Bagaimana Mendapatkan Emas?”

Sama seperti emas, Bitcoin dapat diperoleh dengan cara:

• “Menambang”
• Membeli
• Menjual barang atau jasa dengan Bitcoin
• Bekerja lalu minta dibayar dengan Bitcoin
• Meminta
• Mencuri, merampok, menipu, dsb 

Bagi Admin, membeli adalah cara termudah mendapatkan Bitcoin. Bitcoin dapat dibeli melalui “toko” atau mesin yang melayani jual beli Bitcoin, dapat juga Anda beli dari orang-orang yang menjual Bitcoin, atau bisa juga melalui Exchange (Bursa Bitcoin) dimana Bitcoin diperjual belikan di sana melalui sistem lelang.

Bursa Bitcoin

Admin paling sering membeli dan menjual Bitcoin melalui Bursa Bitcoin karena harganya yang paling kompetitif. Dulu ketika Admin pertama kali mengenal Bitcoin, hampir tidak ada orang menjual Bitcoin di Indonesia sehingga Admin terpaksa membeli dari luar negeri. Ketika itu bursa jual beli Bitcoin di dunia juga masih sedikit. Salah satu yang terbesar ketika itu adalah Mt. Gox yang sekarang sudah bangkrut. Saat ini di Indonesia sudah terdapat Bursa Bitcoin yang beroperasi di Indonesia dan menggunakan Rupiah dalam transaksinya. Salah satu favorit Admin adalah Bitcoin Indonesia milik pak Oscar Darmawan, karena saat ini cuma itulah Bursa Bitcoin di Indonesia yang volume transaksinya lumayan. Dalam Bursa Bitcoin kita dapat langsung membeli dan menjual Bitcoin dari orang lain melalui sistem lelang, persis seperti bursa saham. Bursa Bitcoin Indonesia buka 24 jam sehari dan 7 hari seminggu.

Mulai hari ini, Bitcoin.co.id secara resmi membuka pasar baru dimana Anda dapat menukar Bitcoin dengan salah satu Alternate Coin yang paling terkenal, yaitu Ripple! Bagi Anda yang belum memahami betul apa itu Ripple, kami akan membahasnya secara singkat di dalam artikel ini.

• Apa itu Ripple?

Ripple adalah nama mata uang digital yang serupa dengan Bitcoin, sekaligus nama sistem pembayaran global yang terhubung dengan berbagai mata uang di dunia. Satuan mata uang yang keluar dari teknologi Ripple, dikenal dengan nama XRP. Teknologi ini memudahkan para pengusaha, perusahaan, dan masyarakat dunia untuk mengirim, menerima, menjual atau membeli berbagai mata uang tanpa harus lagi khawatir dengan biaya transaksi yang mahal atau waktu delay yang lama.

• Bitcoin VS Ripple

Seperti Bitcoin, XRP milik Ripple juga merupakan mata uang digital yang berdasar pada formula matematika dan memiliki suplai coin terbatas. Selain sama-sama dijaga oleh keamanan tingkat tinggi, cara kerja kedua mata uang digital ini pun sama, yaitu peer-to-peer tanpa mengandalkan pihak ketiga. Oleh karena itu, pengiriman uang bisa dilakukan dengan biaya transaksi yang sangat kecil dan cepat. inilah yang dimanfaatkan oleh masyarakat.

Terdapat sedikit perbedaan antara Bitcoin dan Ripple. Teknologi Bitcoin hanya mendukung pengiriman Bitcoin antar sesama pengguna. Jika Anda ingin menguangkan Bitcoin ke mata uang lokal negara Anda, maka Anda harus mencari exchange atau Bitcoin user lain yang mau menukarkan Bitcoin Anda ke mata uang lokal. Jika Anda menggunakan Ripple, Anda tidak perlu lagi repot-repot mencari tempat untuk menjual mata uang digital Anda karena teknologi Ripple memfasilitasi pertukaran XRP dengan berbagai mata uang di dunia, termasuk Bitcoin.

• Kelebihan Ripple

Selain memiliki teknologi dan jaringan yang men-support berbagai mata uang negara di dunia, Ripple juga memiliki misi untuk merobohkan dinding-dinding yang membatasi pembayaran dalam dunia finansial. Seseorang yang menggunakan PayPal, misalnya, hanya bisa mengirim uang kepada sesama pengguna PayPal atau berbelanja di situs-situs yang telah bekerjasama dengan PayPal. Hal yang sama terjadi dimana pengguna MasterCard hanya bisa berbelanja di toko-toko yang memiliki mesin EDC MasterCard. Setiap sistem pembayaran yang ada, pasti diciptakan dan bekerja dengan caranya sendiri sehingga antara satu sistem dengan sistem lain tidak bisa dihubungkan secara langsung. Seseorang yang menerima pembayaran dalam Bitcoin, tidak bisa menerima pembayaran dengan Credit Card tanpa mesin EDC. Sebaliknya, merchant dengan mesin EDC tidak bisa menerima Bitcoin jika mereka tidak mempunyai wallet Bitcoin. Ripple hadir untuk memperbaiki situasi seperti ini.

Kini bank-bank besar dunia seperti Fidor Bank, GSR Markets dan Saldo.mx sudah berintegrasi dengan teknologi Ripple untuk memudahkan proses pengiriman uang antarnegara atau remittance, serta memudahkan para pengusaha untuk mengembangkan bisnis mereka. Meskipun market cap Ripple belum sebesar Bitcoin, tetapi Ripple sudah menduduki posisi kedua setelah Bitcoin dalam jajaran seluruh mata uang digital yang ada di dunia.

Jika Anda tertarik untuk memiliki Ripple, Anda bisa menukarkannya dengan Bitcoin tanpa membayar biaya transaksi sedikitpun di www.bitcoin.co.id.

Genesis Mining

This year has seen the arrival of a number of “cloud” mining services - companies that will sell you mining contracts and pay you out with the proceeds. Generally this means you’re renting mining hardware directly, and you get paid out with whatever that hardware produces.

Genesis Mining is a bit different, in that you don’t rent the hardware directly. Instead, you get a contract for a set amount of hashing power, which you can target against various alt-coins like DarkCoin, LiteCoin, etc.  At the end of the day, Genesis Mining converts your mining efforts back into Bitcoins and pays out into your own wallet.

The site has a nice dashboard that lets you allocate your hashing power to one or more alt-coins, or just set it to auto and they’ll calculate the most profitable coin to mine for you.

I signed up a bit over a month ago, and purchased a total of 6 MH/s, for 1.52954788 BTC, or about $940 USD at the time.  I’ve left the mining set to “auto”, so Genesis Mining can figure out which coin is the most profitable.

Here’s what my payouts have looked like since then (the date format is dd.mm.yyyy):

While I’ve made back 0.351144 (23% of my initial investment) in a bit over a month, you can see that payouts are definitely trending down. I’m happy with the payouts so far, but I would like to know, on a daily basis, just what my MH/s are being used to mine.

I’ll update again in the future to show how it’s going. Hopefully, I’ll at least break even by the 6 month-mark.

Easy ways to earn Bitcoin for Beginners

The following is a guest post, written by John Delano.

Bitcoin has recently gained a lot of awareness from the press, due to its exponential price growth. People from all over the world are beginning to use the digital currency, looking to strike it rich, or simply take advantage of its unique features.

Scrape Bitcoin faucets

Bitcoin faucets have played an essential role in the history of Bitcoin. Faucets are websites which automatically dispense free BTC to a user who enters his or her Bitcoin address. This is an ideal way for newbies to get a small amount of BTC for free.

There are many different faucet websites, each with its own unique features. For example, some websites require players to complete a simple game, instead of solving a boring old CAPTCHA. A number of Bitcoin casino sites give out coins which can be used to bet on a dice roll or sports event. You could potentially earn a lot more from these sites, compared to regular faucets.

Mine Bitcoin

Mining is the process of generating Bitcoins through solving computationally-difficult problems. It also serves the purpose of confirming transactions, which secures the network. In layman’s terms, this simply means that you can use computers to crunch numbers, and earn BTC as a reward.

Bitcoin mining is actually a lot harder than it sounds. In 2009, when the virtual currency was first released, you may have been able to mine hundreds of BTC with any regular computer effortlessly. Today, miners employ specialized devices in a race to earn the 25 BTC block reward. In fact, the Bitcoin network is around 256 times faster than the world’s top 500 supercomputers combined.

So is it possible for ordinary people like you and me to take part in the Bitcoin gold rush? The answer is simple. You can join a mining pool to work with other miners, and then split the reward based on how much computational work you did. USB-powered mining hardware, such as the ASICMiner Block Erupter, are readily available, and affordable to the average Bitcoin user. Although there is a chance that you won’t make back the money you spent on purchasing hardware, you will still learn how Bitcoin works, and earn some extra money along the way.

Sell goods and services

Instead of simply purchasing Bitcoins on an exchange, you can also earn it through selling useful items and services to the community. If you’d like to sell something, you should consider accepting Bitcoins, instead of simply listing the item on eBay. Even a number of Subway shops now accept BTC as payment.

One of the key features of Bitcoin is that it allows you to send and receive money from anywhere in the world. That means that you could make money by providing useful services to international customers. If you are skilled at a particular job, such as programming, or graphics design, you could earn a good amount of Bitcoin doing freelance work.

John Delono is a passionate Bitcoin user. He first learned about it in 2010, when looking for a way to make online payments, and store his money safely. He is excited by Bitcoin’s potential to change the world economic system. He writes about Bitcoin gambling on his website, Bitcoin Reviewer.

Comparing Bitcoin Desktop Clients

A Bitcoin desktop client is software that you run on your own computer, as compared to an online client which is a service that makes your wallet available online.  With a desktop client, your wallet is stored on your computer as a file, which means your wallet is as secure as your computer is.  There are several desktop clients available, which vary in the features they have and how easy they are to use. 

When you first start a desktop client the entire Bitcoin block chain is downloaded to your computer.  The block chain is a file that records every transaction that has ever occurred in the Bitcoin network.  It is constantly growing in size (it is currently around 7 GB) and can take several hours to fully download and verify, depending on your internet connection speed.  You won’t be able to send or receive bitcoins until this process is complete (unless you use a “light-weight” client, like Electrum, or decide to use an online wallet).

Bitcoin-Qt

Bitcoin-Qt is the original Bitcoin client, first developed by Satoshi Nakamoto and now developed by the Bitcoin development team.  It is considered the “reference” implementation, which means that any other Bitcoin clients are expected to conform to how it works (though other clients are free to offer additional features and modify the look-and-feel).

 

The Bitcoin-Qt client lets you perform all the basic operations you would expect, from creating a wallet to sending and receiving bitcoins. 

Available for Windows, Linux, and Mac at:

http://bitcoin.org/

Armory

The Armory client offers more advanced features including the ability to run multiple wallets and paper backups of your Bitcoin keys.  It also offers “cold storage”, which is the ability to store your bitcoins in a computer that is kept permanently offline and manually synced with your normal computer.  Cold storage is a bit of a hassle, but it’s basically hacker-proof.

The Armory client requires the Bitcoin-Qt client to already be installed and running.  Armory essentially sits on top of Bitcoin-Qt and offers functionality that Bitcoin-Qt doesn’t have.  After you’ve gotten started with Bitcoin and become familiar with the terminology, you should definitely check Amory out.

Available for Windows, Linux, and Mac at:

http://bitcoinarmory.com/

Electrum

 Electrum is a “light-weight” Bitcoin client, which means that, unlike Bitcoin-Qt and Armory, it doesn’t need to download the full block chain before it can start working. Instead, it relies on remote servers that have a copy of the block chain (you can run your own Electrum server if you want). Your wallet file is still stored locally and securely on your own computer.

Because it doesn’t download the entire block chain, you can start using Electrum much sooner than other clients, so if you’re in a hurry, Electrum is good place to start.

Available for Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android at:

http://electrum.org/

MultiBit

 MultiBit is another light-weight client that doesn’t require you to download the entire Bitcoin block chain before you can get started. It’s translated into a growing number of languages, which makes it a good choice if you want a client in a language other than English.  A list of which languages it supports can be seen at the MultiBit website.

 

Available for Windows, Linux, and Mac at:

https://multibit.org/

Is CampBX the Future of Bitcoin Exchanges?

Mt. Gox has been the main Bitcoin exchange since it opened, but there’s long been a second tier of exchanges that provide alternatives for those unsatisfied with it.  

Many of these alternative exchanges have been having significant problems in the last few weeks. Bitcoin-24 had it’s bank account closed by Polish authorities.  Bitfloor had it’s US bank account closed. Bitstamp was unreachable for long periods of time during the exchange price crash that happened recently.  Even Coinlab’s take-over of Mt. Gox’s US-based trading seems to be behind schedule.

All of these problems may finally allow another Bitcoin exchange, CampBX, a chance to shine. Founded back in 2011 by Keyur Mithawala,  it’s never reached the scale of some other exchanges.  But users dissatisfied by the other exchanges and looking for a new home for their money may find it has a lot to offer.

CampBX has always placed a very strong emphasis on security. It’s automatically audited daily by McAfee, offers Google Authenticator for two-factor authentication, and only uses dedicated servers in a secure data center in Arizona.  

Based in Alpharetta, Georgia, USA, CampBX is subject to US laws and regulations, which is a big plus for people who are worried about what will happen to their money if the exchange they’re using is shut down.  With the closing of Bitfloor, CampBX is the last US-based exchange.

The site’s interface is clean, and CampBX didn’t suffer the same amount of lag as other exchanges did during the recent sell-off. It also offers some advanced trading options, including margin buying and short selling, as well as dark pool orders.

Unverified accounts can transfer up to $1,000 in and out per day and have a maximum account size of $9,000.  Verified accounts get higher limits, but you’ll have to provide a copy of your government-issued ID and a scanned-copy of proof of address, such as a utility bill.

Unverified accounts can be funded via Money Order (USPS or Canada Post only) which can take between 4 - 10 days to be received and processed, or via Dwolla. Verified accounts can, additionally, make direct deposits to a Capitol One 360 bank account or send a personal check.

With a strong focus on security, US location, and easy account funding options, CampBX has a lot going for it. But it remains to be seen if it can scale to keep up with demand.  It’s also very US-focused, and using CampBX would probably be painful for Bitcoin users elsewhere (though CampBX says that expanding account funding options is a priority).