Maybe. Or maybe those 5% are like me, who do not have access to modern banking systems and credit cards, and had no method of paying before? More than half of the world is unbanked.

Just a few of the (bigger) companies which accept bitcoin (and there are hundreds of thousands of smaller ones):

Zynga
Overstock
TigerDirect
Expedia
1-800-flowers
Newegg
Dell
Wikipedia
Rakuten US
Dish
United Way
Greenpeace USA
Mozilla
American Red Cross
Save the Children
Time Inc
Twitch
50 Cent
Microsoft
Sacramento Kings

You could buy a computer from Dell, or an mp3 player from Overstock, or a magazine subscription from Time Inc.

If you don't need any of that, you can still buy everything with bitcoin, from clothing to cars, from web hosting to food, from plane tickets to space travel. Are you seriously telling me that food and clothing are not "anything useful"?

Sorry, but I can't find any normal store here that accepts Bitcoin. No car dealer, no clothing store and no supermarket. I don't want my stuff delivered from the other end of the world. You know, pollution and all this stuff... I don't want my spanish sweet pepper to go from Spain to China, just to be delivered back to Spain -.-

Only "useful" service would be Dell. I tink their PCs are a bit expensive (like all pre built systems), but since Bitcoins would be useless for me anyway, I could live with that.

There are debit cards which you can top-up using bitcoin, so literally every store which takes cards can, indirectly, accept bitcoin.
There are also many ways to purchase vouchers for store credit for popular retail outlets.
It would certainly be very welcome for more places to accept bitcoin directly, though (even if that is via a payment processor who instantly sells the BTC for USD or whatever).

If you take the time to learn about how money is created and managed in the modern world, and how bitcoin (and many other crypto currencies) works, it's possible that you'll realize how much more ethical and efficient a system of exchange it provides.

I would also like to have GOG to accept Bitcoins, since this more convenient for me to pay with Bitcoin than going through my bank account (either via Paypal or Credit card). And GOG would also benefit from this, since they don't need to pay Paypal or the credit company the usual 3%.

However since we are here getting DRM-free games I see that that would be too easy for some people to gain this game without leaving any trace of their address here.

So I doubt that this will happen in the near future.

sure . use a "currency" that can be easily hacked and change its value wildly. maybe you'll tell me to invest in somalian bucks too?

Also the fact that Bitcoin has crashed won't help.

hey... did i just get downrated for saying that? damn somalians! sorry... i meant somalians are good people. people who hate somalians are bigots! BIGOTS!

Remember, GOG has no bitcoin expenses. How much will they lose on converting bitcoin to the currency they need to pay rightsholders' fees, employees' salaries, taxes, rent and bills?

Wasn't me, I love Somalians!
To be fair, though, your post was very uninformed and probably was perceived by someone as a troll attempt.

A large website which exchanged bitcoins and dollars and was run dishonestly was "hacked" (more like an inside job to steal funds), bitcoin itself remains untouched.
If a large store of gold got stolen, this doesn't suddenly make gold a scam, same goes for bitcoin - the security of which has remained untouched.

The value of bitcoin is determined by what people pay for it, either speculatively or just to pay for something - nothing strange about this really.

Accepting bitcoin as a business doesn't necessarily mean keeping the coins, as bitpay and others will lock in your dollar exchange rate for each purchase - it just acts as a payment processor (which in many cases is cheaper than processing fees of cards and probably always cheaper than paypal)

Please, go look into it, the technology is a fascinating development, and nobody is being forced to hold bitcoins long term (some people do, though).

i'll tell you what i know. a young bright-looking young lady , who was working with bitcoins, came to singapoor for business purposes. she commited suicide. yes yes, correlation does not imply causation, i know.

I think that is what many replys are overlooking. We are not talking about GOG using this new curency. We are talking about GOG to accept this payment method additional to others.

At the moment the users are using Paypal or Credit Cards, maybe paying in the lcoal curency e.g. Peso and at the end GOG will get there moeny in USD or Euro, but have to pay a fee of 3%(?).

Instead we would like additional to pay in Bitcoin (instead of Peso), GOG wont need to pay the 3%(?) and still get the money instantly. And wont get any cashbaks, stolen credit cards and so on.

So if they use Paypal+Credit Cards the user needs to pay 100 USD, but GOG only gets 97 USD and still this money could be gone later.

With Bitcoin GOG gets there full money now without any risks.

Does Bitcoin have DRM?

I can't figure out how it works without signing up for an account, but the gist is this: if GOG is to "accept bitcoin", they need to accept hard USD and put the conversion burden on the user. If the system actually works like that, it is beneficial to have it implemented -- obviously, I can't do a financial assessment whether it's be worth the lawyer- and programmer-hours to implement, but yes, it'd be a straight-up benefit to have it magically conjured into existence.

I want to see an escort service that accepts bitcoin