By any chance, do you have a link on the article(if there is), regarding this? I'm a bit shocked that online payments are not accessible but Bitcoin is?
The source is trust me bro, I heard from a friend of a relative of a guy who meet his stepmom on Tinder that she once dreamt of this!
The simple problem with this story is that if the guy who pays in Bitcoin does so because there is no access to other fiances, why is the other guy accepting it since he has no way of cashing out and how does he pay for the stuff? I met a ton of Ukraine refugees last year, they all were trying to exchange hrivnas for USD or euros, they all had either cash in USD or euros, and they had a few debit cards, in the tens of trips in welcoming centers, I've never heard on asking if he can pay in Bitcoin.
It's a psychological thing, and it won't change in decades, when running for your life you want value you can touch and that can be easily changed in times of need, not something you like this. It's not Bitcoin's fault for being so perceived but it's hard to change how humans think, it will take a while.
Some of those on the evacuation journey have to reach out to families and well-wishers seeking for funding to help ease their pain and since there are no bank networks in the desert and no way to send or receive fiat money, I suggested the use of Bitcoin to get money across to a friend who is stuck, and all we needed to do was to send the money to his Bitcoin wallet without any restrictions or delays.
Yeah, cool story, and what has he done with those bitcoins since he had no way to transfer them or exchange them to fiat?
He paid who with coins, and why did those guys take coins when they also had nowhere to spend them, since, you said it, it was a desert, quite a funny looking desert with 5G poles every kilometer? And why did the guy abandon them and suddenly decided then to continue the trip when he got Bitcoins, why didn't they pay him in coins the entire sum from the start?
Seriously, lock this farce!