You can buy gift cards for lots of major retailers with bitcoin. You can even buy from amazon via purse.io.
A lot of people use cash to buy giftcards, in order to pay for bitcoin anonymously. So now it's cash -> giftcard -> bitcoin -> giftcard -> physical thing. The future is odd.
purse.io is a money laundering operation for stolen credit card numbers. If it hasn't been shut down yet and its operators arrested, it will be soon.
Everything I have ever read about purse.io indicates that the gift cards there are purchased with stolen credit card details.
I haven't come across any so far. I convert BTC to USD and use that.
Okay. I'm curious about how you use BTC and why it means so much to you?
It means so much to me because I live in a country with no Paypal or easy access to credit cards that can be used online. Bitcoin is the only way I can pay for servers and books.