Of course all forms of payment are optional.  Money itself is optional.  You could live in a cave and eat wild berries and insects if you wanted to avoid using money altogether.

Bitcoin is just a better option than fiat.  It seems you are struggling to grasp this.

Bitcoin has all of the advantages that the costly fiat options have without the added expense.

I think the lesson here is to always invest of tech that you dont don't think has potential.

Being able to move across state lines with nothing but a code in your head.  Its difficult to cross into a new country with 100 oz of gold, but easy with 1000 btc.

 Those that are facing a 50% tax on estate taxes on their death. Wouldnt it be nice to give your children btc instead of stocks, cash, or land?  evasion if not reported, but not the dead guy's problem.

Where do you bank?  It costs me exactly 0 dollars & 00 pennies to use my bank's ATM.  There are thousands of them.  If you have to pay your bank to take out your money, *you're doing it wrong.*


When my phone battery is dead, when my phone is not on me, or when i want to spend my money any place other than 0 establishments accepting Bitcoin, here's what i do.  Ready?  Let's say i drove to a city with Bitcoin businesses:
I have a credit card and a debit card in my wallet, allowing me to spend my money in x1,000,000 more places than Bitcoin.  If i wish to shop in a place that takes Bitcoin?  No problem!  They take cash too.  Oh, forgot.  I also have some folding money & some change, so if i need to tip someone -- no problem, they *know* dollars. Road toll?  No problem.  Parking meter?  Done!  See how much fun i have with fiat?  I can even gas up my car!  Can you do that with Bitcoin?  Not yet -- stay home & wait for a better tomorrow


See above ^^^.  Please remember to thank me for teaching you how to use monyz, i'm saving you a bundle. (Protip:  Look for the ATMs with your bank's logo on them )


Right-o.  "It's all very scientific & complicated, don't worry your purty li'l head about it, we'll take care of it later"  Please.  


I'm just saying you're wrong, and backing it up with examples.  If asking "can i pay in bitcoins?" gave me something other than blank stares or GTFO! in 99.99% of IRL, you might have a point.  'Till that happy day...


Let's stop pretending it already happened!  IRL people think we're either conning them, or we're a bit touched.  Let's acknowledge reality, and try to change it -- cheerleeding on this forum is pointless -- if you're here, you know & use BTC.

Well, to be fair no one actually uses their computers to balance their checkbooks or store recipes (And who even uses checkbooks anymore...)

I don't pay ATM fees myself, but there are plenty of people that do pay them.  Bitcoin eliminates this needless expense for them.


If your battery is dead, you could use physical bitcoins.  Fiat doesn't have a monopoly on physical money.  Just because a business chooses to transact in fiat doesn't mean it's the better form of money.  Yes, we are all going to be stuck using fiat for quite a while longer, but as with any new technology, adoption will take some time.  We are still in the very early stages of the transition.  The infrastructure is being built, you just have to be patient.  As more and more people understand Bitcoin's advantages they won't just accept it, they will prefer it.



A person of your intellect is in no position to be teaching anyone anything.  You still have a lot to learn about how money works.  You're in the right place though, and that's a start.  There's plenty of people here that can get you up to speed.


I'm not worried about it all.  I'm confident that the free market will be able to easily overcome these challenges.  Bitcoin's issues pale in comparison to those of fiat currencies.  I'll take blockchain bloat and slow confirmations over quantitative easing and massive sovereign debt any day.


You have not yet provided a single example of how fiat is superior to Bitcoin.  You've only pointed out that more businesses are willing to accept an inferior form of money.  Again, that is because we are still early in this transition to honest, sound money.  It's going to take years.  Give it time.  Old habits die hard.


I'm not pretending anything has already happened.  Bitcoin has a long ways to go.  I acknowledge that.  The Wright brothers first flew a little over a hundred years ago.  We didn't get military jets, unmanned drones, spacecraft, satellites, commercial airliners, and airports in every city overnight.  It took time for the infrastructure to develop and for society to adapt to the new technology.  Same applies to Bitcoin.

Yes to basically all the above remarks plus :

1) BTC attacks the entire centralized finance government monopoly system that relies on a constant flow of plunder to the state. That is why we need to move to BTC (and its variations).

2) BTC is also a natural progression in the scheme of things : the idea of information -> information tech -> computing -> internet -> social networking -> p2p finance... Not to belittle the efforts of Satoshi et al, but kind of inevitable (with hindsight) if one thinks about it.

It is the fiat money overvalued (cost nothing to produce), because people have no choice for other transaction medium, when they have some alternative, you will see how fast fiat money will depreciate against everything

Great, let's all do that. No one pays tax ever again. Yippeee.... Just like Amazon, Google, Apple in the UK.....

Then let's see how fast the infrastructure of the planet collapses.