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Who here uses Bitcoin daily or lives on the financial crypto market?




I personally use Bitcoin wherever I possibly can, and accept it directly without converting it to fiat immediately. I have been using Bitcoin daily for years. (Ever since Bitpay started improving its Bitcoin debitcard product)

I don't live on crypto-only because I can't pay bills and buy food with it. I do however buy almost everything else with crypto and my income revenues include bitcoin as a payout method alongside all the normal banking ones and PayPal which is nice to see because being paid used to be a problem for me. They always wanted me to have a Paypal or something. The bank I use doesn't support Paypal.

How does the bitcoin debit system with Bitpay work? How has it been for you?

Do you mean to say that every time you transact, it's through debit cards? Some of the things that I would consider to pay for doesn't accept payment of any other kind. They are quite an old school type of thing, but they still manage to continue with their business. Not every store accepts even just credit card payments, which is sad. It's not that advanced yet, but I think the country would get there soon.

I do think life would become more comfortable as the technology improves, and once everyone practices cryptocurrencies, it would be better. That's the vision, IMO.

A lot of ATM and Bitcoin buying and selling points are currently being developed, this can generate in some businesses the incentive of payments through Bitcoin, the debit card I do not understand very well if when the Bitcoin is within what rate of change takes? Regarding CMC? Or any specific Exchange? That part does not clarify it in the article.

However, I prefer 100% to trade with Bitcoin as much as possible, and if there is no alternative to use, localbitcoins.com may be able to resolve quickly, a small part is sold by FIAT.

Everything that can be paid in terms of goods and services with Bitcoin is a great advantage, everything is in adoption, work is being done based on it, there is already much more acceptance than a few years ago, that is the positive part and that That interest will increase every day.

Locally I'm still way more into regular fiat payments because there aren't many places you can spend Bitcoin, but on the internet 9 out of 10 transactions of mine are in Bitcoin. It's much more convenient and I don't have to worry about shit services such as PayPal to block my account because they request more information.

Another thing I don't have to worry about is people requesting a charge-back. Most financial services always favor the buyer, which means that you as seller can wake up to a notification that x amount has been deducted from your balance to compensate the buyer. That's so fucked. Bitcoin eliminates that shit. You are the full owner of the funds once the transaction has been confirmed.

Well for most of us, this just isn't applicable yet. I also try to use bitcoin, or even ether and ripple, anywhere possible. Though there's just limited markets where i can use it for now. Most of the time for online purchases only. The main use for crypto for me at the moment would be for trading. And i'm pretty sure a lot of us here deals the same way with it.

May I ask where do you live? Unfortunately, the adoption of Bitcoin is too weak in my region so that is why I can not use it to the full, I have to interact with fiat money

I think that at the moment, even the most ardent fan of bitcoin and crypto world will not be able to buy most goods and services if he wants to pay only with bitcoin. The world of cryptocurrencies is too young and has not yet managed to gain confidence among the bulk of people. Several years will pass and the situation will change.

Bitcoin living for me is my everyday ways to earn bitcoin. But as to spending it, its really through exchange from btc to my regular currency. I still save some bitcoin in my wallet for future purposes. Sometimes there payments that I can pay through bitcoin whenever they wanted to pay in bitcoin. But mostly its really through my local currency.

People using bitcoin on daily basis mostly use it for buying services/barter.
Since Bitcoin is now more store of value than currency for daily spending, it fits better that way anyway.
Services build on top of bitcoin will be reliable enough to daily living spending. (lighting network maybe)

I personally no longer use bitcoin as a direct payment because there is already a regulation in my country that in essence bitcoin is just not allowed or is still illegal if used as a means of payment. But even so, before I always use bitcoin and or other crypto to buy or make payments on a service that is on the internet. But that is just a simple reason that basically if there is a service that accepts bitcoin, of course I prefer it because after all bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that can be widely used, but on the other hand also because it is still very rare for a marketplaces that accepts bitcoin then that is also the reason why there are still many people who still need fiat and cannot fully use bitcoin for daily living.

Yeah, I also cannot live on crypto-only since it is impossible. In my country, Bitcoin is not allowed to be a payment tool, the government just grants us to use Bitcoin as a digital asset. So, I need to convert Bitcoin to my national currency for paying any things in daily life.
Well, nothing can be done as long as the government hasn't changed this rule. Never dream to see a hotel or restaurant accept the payment in Bitcoin if the government states it as an illegal payment tool.     

My bitcoin usage depends on case to case basis. The majority of physical stores here aren't accepting bitcoin directly as a mode of payment and I think it won't be improved in the next 5 years until a big company will start implementing it locally.

As much as possible I will used my fiat for regular spendings on daily basis so that bitcoin is just saved. I have other source income so not a problem at all.

But like other people, there is a time that we need to do a force conversion for an urgent purposes.

I do use bitcoin at some point but not really a day to day basis since it's still hard enough here in my country to use it for daily living. We're still lacking in many points, adoption, merchants, and such. First, I don't use bitcoin when I have to buy things with only small value things. Second, just like what I have said, most businesses here don't accept bitcoin. It's a rare to find one.
To be honest, it's more convenient to use fiat because everyone are using it. That's why we still need more adoption

Unfortunately, there's no way for me to use Bitcoin daily and even if there was I doubt I'd do it. It's not because I don't want to spread awareness, I do! The main reason is I earn fiat and Bitcoin every month and I spend fiat first because it doesn't gain value and is more convenient to use for daily needs. Converting Bitcoin could mean taxes and I don't feel like paying them unless there's no other choice. There's also very little stores where I can spend. Even gift cards mean you're indirectly converting to fiat. There's almost no businesses that will take your crypto without the use of a payment processor.

It would be nice earning Bitcoin every day and use it in your daily lives! You were one of those people who contribute to the awareness of using Bitcoin and makes it stable in the crypto world. As for me, there's no chance to use it as my place is a non-crypto friendly location and I don't earn Bitcoin too. I can only contribute to saving Bitcoin using fiat and holding them as I can. 

In fulfill my daily needs, I am very dependent on my income from bitcoin. Therefore I always hard work in earning bitcoin
every day, such as following signature campaigns, trading, and sometimes following IEO projects too. But since in my country
I can't directly buy goods with bitcoin, therefore exchanges are needed to convert bitcoin into fiat. After that I can buy everything
the need for it my daily life. I am really very helped by the presence of bitcoin, because it can solve my financial needs.

Well, honestly I used bitcoin as a payment for my monthly bills (internet, electricity and water) but not in  daily used basis. However if I wanna spend my btc everyday, I can but I don't want to.

• Fees are higher
• transactions are slow.

I am open for an opportunity that I can use it daily but those two things  will always be the hindrance on using it.  

It would be very hard to do so, to live on BTC you'll have 2 main conditions

- You'll need a decent sum of BTC to be able to pay for everything or a source of income that pays you in crypto-currencies.
- You will also need to be able to find stores for food/water, transport, recreation activities, and real estate options that are able to be payable in BTC, or at least accept gift cards (which are usually able to be bought for with BTC).

Right now, this very hard to do, unless you live in a country with fairly high adoption rates (eg, Singapore).

this sounds very interesting if we use bitcoin to trade every day, but at this time I think bitcoin cannot be used as a living solution for daily needs and unfortunately in my country for now the government has not yet formalized bitcoin to be used in public places, even though in my country is a little difficult to use bitcoin but I also use it for a number of needs such as to buy household appliances through online only.

For few years, Bitcoin has been part of almost my daily routine, since I am earning some from trading and from joining signature campaigns, I use this to finance my monthly expenses such as paying my utility bills, telephone , internet, electricity, credit cards and I am saving some of it to pay the tuition fee of my 2 kids as their education and security is so important for me as a parent, so even though they are at young age, I am giving them the best education for their future.

I don't, but I used to pay bills(electric bills and such) using bitcoin(I don't pay it directly to the company. I'm using an app and the app will automatically convert the bitcoin into fiat when I pay using bitcoin).


a lot of people would love to use bitcoin daily(including me) but there still a lot of things that have to be done for it to be feasible for daily use. For me right now using bitcoin as a payment
for bills(like I mentioned earlier) is the most convenient and practical way to use it.

There's a limited way to spend bitcoin here so its not possible to rely on bitcoin as your currency to provide the things you need each day.

I usually spend my bitcoin when paying my bills using our local wallet. It has features wherein you can use your btc to load your phone or pay your monthly bills or even your monthly contribution for different agencies.

Im looking forward for more merchant to accept bitcoin so it will become possible to use it for daily living.

I can consider my self as living half of cryptocurrency and fiat financially. The reason is that not all the time there is a feature for simple stores to accept cryptocurrency. Though through my personal transaction from my peers, I utilize crypto, I still cannot implement it to an overall transaction that I have. For example, not all transportation vehicle permits to pay using crypto, not all grocery store utilizes it and more factor follows. But I am hoping to the fact that through time, enterprises can develop their own crypto systems in the future.

That's nice to hear. It is one thing to be just a Bitcoin or crypto supporter and quite another to really live life as a Bitcoin or crypto supporter.

But I don't think this is possible in my country right now. Bitcoin or crypto-accepting stores are not that widespread. In fact, there are only a handful mainly spread within the national capital region. Although there are already crypto debit cards in partnership with the likes of Visa, MasterCard, or UnionPay all over the world, it is also not that known here yet. Even living fully cashless here is kind of difficult with a big part of our markets not even keeping up with the digital age.

Im not really spending my btc or any other crypto just to make purchases or pay for services in a daily basis. Im more on using fiat debit cards and cc to use it on daily transactions. We dont have a lot of merchants and service providers that accept btc either. btc atms are also in the selected areas only.

For a while I tried using bitcoin without trying to covert it into fiat but it the not work out so much for me because of not everything I can get can I use bitcoin to get it some people are still not yet clear on what bitcoin is and it's sounds like fantasy to them

I use it daily at food merchants in the business district. I decided early on that I would support the merchants that supports Bitcoin, so I take my lunch budget at the beginning of the month and I convert it to bitcoins. I then spend those bitcoins daily at the local food merchants to buy food and drinks for lunch.

The challenge for me is to get more food merchants to accept bitcoins, because I am limited to about 5 food merchants now and it is boring to eat the same things over and over again, every day.  ::)

That is the real platform for Bitcoin but unfortunately, we are not getting enough space for this purpose, I think if Bitcoin would become an easy-going payment system then people must use it for their daily life but due to lack of price stability and legal status people don't get this opportunity yet, so I think it's not the time to think about this platform, I think when this Bitcoin platform will become stable and get accepted at the whole world then we will use it, But It requires a lot of time because still, people are not used to having it due to lack of acceptability and credibility. I think this Cryptocurrency platform should be more stable and accepted and then it will automatically be used in our daily life.

Same and it looks like this the least we can do when it comes on using bitcoin as payment. Though we're slowly on adoption we can't still deny the fact that only few countries has opened their doors for bitcoin. However, I know we're getting there as virtual wallets are emerging and people are slowly getting used to it.

Likely, just also use bitcoin on paying bills online and sending money, no more no less.

in my country currently a little more stringent in crypto currency regulations especially bitcoin, before in my country many sites that provide payment with Bitcoin or EThereum to pay electricity bills and buy pulses or other, I still use bitcoin every day to trade sometimes every profit I get from trading on the exchange to pay anything, but must sell it first to the currency of my country

We lived on Crypto full time until I got a teaching job, but my Wife now told me she has now a full time job being paid in Bitcoin as her monthly salary, so technically now form that she can live on it full time, as I am teaching in Thailand right now.. So if I were to pack my job in now and went back home, we could live on Bitcoin alone, plus other crypto jobs I am doing but I have a two year contract and I enjoy what I do. She can work remotely and join me in Thailand soon for a few months, which is great. Living on Bitcoin gives you more freedom of choice.

In the whole world I believe there are only a few governments that accept Bitcoin directly (as in, they accept Bitcoin without you needing to sell or convert it). These are in Switzerland and Austria, and even then it is not for every public service, just selected ones.

Even so, I can only read about these in newspapers, never tried myself.

It will take time, but for now yeah, all we can do is sell to fiat and pay bills. But one day...

I think that Venuezuela is also accepting it, they are adopting the use of crypto to their country as one of their way to cover up the loss the had from financial crisis, so they are checking all the possible ways for it.

Well, here in our country, people will not threat you once they saw and they knew that you are in crypto world, little by little they are realizing it is not a scam.

I currently live using bitcoin, making profits from bitcoin trading for my daily life. in my country Bitcoin has not yet been accepted by the state. so you can't trade using bitcoin to buy things. it must be converted to fiat.

Bitcoin adoption in my country is not widely accepted, as many people in our country are not yet aware of this technology. Me, I only use bitcoin when I pay for water bills, electricity and internet bills. I also use it for local online shops here in my country because they are accepting bitcoin but it is automatically converted to fiat money.

Excerpts from the article  This is the main reason why merchants are having a second thought, and those who do are doing this because of they supporters or doing experiments, but if I am a merchant I will readily accept payment, I will just set up or create a safety net, so even if Bitcoin drops or increase my company is still safe. 

If bitpay can be used in my country and get permission to connect with various payments, then it's very interesting, the only thing I know up to now is that there is only one local premium tv service that accepts bitcoin, and that too doesn't get big attention. Basically the price of services / products can be made more expensive because the price of BTC is always changing, the most important thing is its function.

I'm starting to become quite fond of using crypto-currencies for everyday occurrences. Ordering Pizza is probably my favorite thing to spend coins on. I first started around 2014 when Coinbase was just getting off of the ground and starting to take shape as a legitimate regulatory compliant exchange. To be frank, after the Mt. Gox situation, as a speculator I was scared as hell to invest in any exchange. Purse.io is probably one of the best platforms still around from the early days.

Well,that's good for you. Here in my country i can use bitcoin for online transaction,selling or buying selected product but using bitcoin as daily living it's not. You still need to convert it into fiat before you can use it anywhere or even to buy goods and services.

In my case, I don't casually use bitcoin. I use it only when I'm investing. I get it that we can use it in plenty of ways daily but I am not into using its full potential and capability. I think also that it would be more risky if you will use bitcoin daily knowing that frauds and scams are everywhere nowadays. You can use bitcoin for convenience but always make sure you are using it in the right way and avoid involving yourself in illegal activities in collaboration with bitcoin so that you can really get the most from it even on a daily basis.

I have been living (surviving) from what little bitcoin income i managed to obtain online for the last couple of years. Living with bitcoin is simple: You only spend what you must, and keep (hold/save) the rest. Since almost no one accepts bitcoin directly here (despite misleading news), this means exchanging it prior to going out to buy.

This is probably unsuitable for most people, unless you live in a "subsidized" environment such as with your family where you wouldn't need to pay for food or rent, or a country with a broken economy...

Ideally a "proper" job (hundreds, instead of tens of USD equivalent a month) with bitcoin payment would suffice, or fiat paid and you exchange all you can. Yes i know in rich countries you are supposed to earn thousands of USD/month to live, but lets ignore the rich...

Instead of using it on your daily lives I think it would be better if you could just earn and hold it. Aren't you aware of the coming bull run? You could have earn more profit by next year if you could just hold it until the right time to sell. You were that not all people are aware of that innovative technology yet. Bitcoin will be the future gold and look at how things are going in 10 years.

In some parts of the world it might be easier for people to use bitcoin as a day to day payment method given the percentage of crypto awareness in that part, but due to to the lack of trust and investment in it in some other part of the world it is hard to us to do so, since we live with other people, we are forced to  act the way the world and the society  forces us to, so you can't buy food or take transport unless you pay with fiat, now you could try and live of bitcoin and crypto using indirect ways that includes bitcoin debit cards or other services, but it does not feel right, it is not using bitcoin. which is the whole purpose of using it to promote it.

This is the fact why bitcoin is not suitable as a means of payment.  The price is easy to change at any time, so it is not suitable to be used as a measure of the price of an item.
Especially for micropayments, it is more effective to use fiat.  While bitcoin, with its potential, is more suitable to be used as an investment tool and trading commodity.  Meanwhile, even if you want to be used for payments, with the ease and speed of delivery, it is more effective for macro payments.

For now, yes. It is mostly a convenient online payment method, good and fast alternative to paypal but using blockchain. The thing is, that cryptocurrencies are getting more and more improved, fast, safe and convenient to use in everyday form. I mean alts ofc, but bitcoin itself could be improved as well, if it adapted and used some useful improvements found in today's most used alts.

Imo , do you know if the person has something to eat while hodling and expecting for a future rise? Or would you starve to death while you can safe yourself by yourself ?  I don't think is a wise decision to have a solution of selling your coin while being infested with a deadly I'll health that could kill and not safe your life first.

I don't buy the "volatility" argument anymore. Well yeah, it's volatile compared to USD but why is the USD the reference? Reference should be something that keeps the value but dollar is not the case. Just look at what could you afford with $100 a decade ago and now. Or 50 years ago. 100 years ago. Dollar is volatile too. Its value is constantly decreasing. This is not the case with Bitcoin.

If a person had a regular job. Yes, he can hold and buy more during dip of the market. It's not necessarily you have to spend lots of Bitcoin to cash out instantly for your daily expenses. But if you don't have a regular job or any business that you could make some money then I feel sorry for your lose.

Bitcoin has really good transaction properties, however the price fluctuations make it harder to make daily transactions. You would have to hope that the price of bitcoin rises to be able to afford items you could have bought yesterday. Thats a problem.

We do have different state in life, so for some people they are cashing out all the fund they have, then it is fine, this has been part of their daily living, we should understand it, but if one people would like to make Bitcoin as a way to save money as he has a lot of money reserve for their daily life then it is better, but, I would not recommend him to save everything in Bitcoin, but to cash out other his income and just leave fund reserve for investment.

In my country, It will be difficult for me to spend my bitcoins to provide my daily needs or necessities because there are only few stores here who only accepts bitcoin as a currency, that is why I usually convert my bitcoin into fiat just for me to provide my needs. I can only used my bitcoin to pay bills, buy prepaid loads, game credits, and the things that i ordered in online shopping.

If you ignore the dollar fiat valuation and the daily fluctuation and consider bitcoin as a valuation when you entered then these sort of hiccups can be avoided but there are a lot of development left and the developers are behind it and hopefully in the near future we will have a solution that we could scale and able to send the coins without much transaction fees, even now the transaction charges are low but if the network is congested it will take some time for verification and as a merchant you cannot accept the coin if there is a longer confirmation time.

Well, I also used bitcoin as a daily living because I used some of my earnings from bitcoin to provide the things that I need for 3 years, that is why bitcoin and cryptocurrnency is everything to me that without them I couldn't do the things that I can do today. Bitcoin is really helpful for everyone's daily living because it can help a person who doesn't have any source of income.

It's so happy to see that there are lots of people out here that making money thru cryptocurrency that's helping their daily life, just like mine, yeah, just like you, without crypto, we will be in short budget always, I don't have fixed income for now, I don't have stable job, and trading and joining campaign has been a big help in our daily life, so I am so much thankful about this too, not that much compare to others but for me a big help.

If you find a good job then you do not need to depend on these bounties alone and hope you wont go into depression when all the campaigns end as you will have no other job  ::). Not sure about your qualification but to say that you can use the bounty to make a living is just outrageous and come on is this a source of income  :o. Hope you will find a job rather than wasting your life as these things will not last but if you are an investor it will change your life but that is not what you are doing here.

I am not a seller of product, so I would not say that I have been able to contribute in that aspect too but it is my desire too that one day, I won a platform where I can sell products and be able to introduce bitcoin as the main payment for my goods and them use fiat as an alternative of payment for those that are still finding it difficult to use cryptocurrency while I will try my best then to actually create awareness of it for those people.

For moment, the only way that I get engaged with bitcoin on a daily basis is because I am a trader, and the kind of trading that I chose to go for is the day trading which makes me to have an encounter with bitcoin on a daily basis and I save it in my wallet without touching it except maybe I am transferring it for same trading purpose.

You can't really live with cryptocurrency in your pocket to do your living, we are not established yet with using such currency in digital form. There are just some of businesses that accepts it, you can't even spend a day  with just using crypto, not at all. Big companies like paypal, microsoft and Amazon isn't that much for you to need daily. There are already significant change in banking system these days as some are already open with using crypto for payment settlements, good for client in terms of conveniency.

Bitpay works great simply because I enjoy its 1% transaction fee at hassle free transaction every time I buy from a merchant in Bitpay. I just don't know if they charge currency conversion fee, or it same goes with their transaction fee rate.

It is always suggested to have a day job that pays with an earnings. When we talk about bounties and campaigns we can't depend on it completely. If someone asks for, and if you don't have any campaigns to participate then it'll affect your daily living. Good is to know the need and make the right decision on spending.

This is correct. Cryptocurrency is full of wild swings and one needs to have a reliable source of income (job, business) to meet daily needs. I do earn a lot from crypto but I am not 100% dependent on CC for living, I have a job that keeps my paying every week.

Using bitcoin for daily living is an ideal one. I would want to use bitcoin in daily transactions but I don't really have enough bitcoin to help me survive with my daily expenses. I'm still working hard to earn more btc and rather than spending it everyday, I'm trying to save it for the future. Though I can buy things I want and I need with bitcoin but of course I still have to limit myself in spending it. Also one thing is that, besides from paying utility bills, using bitcoin, I can mostly buy things through online which is not a very practical option. It's much better to buy things personally but they don't accept bitcoin at all.

It's really so good if we can use and spend bitcoin daily, it's gonna help more bitcoin to increase and gets more value. I'd like to spend it daily but I don't really earn a lot of btc so I'd rather hold it instead of using it to buy stuffs. I meant, already i can use my local currency to buy anything i want but it seems that bitcoin is more valuable than being spending by buying normal stuffs.

Acceptance of bitcoin as means of payment or for any transaction daily is not acceptable for now in my country Although I used to pay for any goods and services using fiat however there exist trusted agents that I trade some of my bitcoin to fiat in a swift transaction thus I have no cause to worry about whether some stores or other services accept bitcoin or not I obviously believe that in few years to come bitcoin would be well recognized as an alternative means of payment in my country.

Alas, I do not use bitcoin in everyday life.And this fact is not due to the fact that I do not like bitcoin,but to the fact that in my country very few services not accept bitcoin for payment.

Bitcoin is not really popular in my country despite looking for a place to use my bitcoin anywhere I could I still have to find a single business that accepts bitcoin so it is difficult for me to imagine how someone could survive with bitcoin alone.

However this could be possible in a country like Japan which has adopted this technology, but before it happens everywhere else we need more affordable fees and this is only possible through the LN.

I agree with you we can't use crypto to paybills in all aspect as mode of payment, but I admit crypto can help for me to get worse of living to fullfill all my needs if my fiat salary in the my office job is not enough to sustain the needs of my family. i am truly blessed because in the help of this new technology as crypto currency believer I survive and I give the fulfillment of my family needs.

A must thing should be considered by anyone of us specially to those people who do tend to stop or leave their day job and go full time with crypto.

It isnt really that idea yet we know that everything on this market doesnt give an assurance to give you constant profits that would support your living forever.

However, if you do able to make some decent amount of money might able to change your life forever on financial aspect thats why its still a worthy thing to
strive to get profits on doing crypto jobs but dont ever fully rely on it.

What country? If you don't mind me asking.

Affordable fees? The fees have been quite affordable in the last couple of months. If you think fees of $0.05 are expensive, then you should rethink what it means to use Bitcoin. Bitcoin's on-chain fees will never be similar to what shitcoins such as Litecoin or Dogecoin offer, simply because their networks aren't being used much at all.

$0.05 in fees is crazy cheap if you add the fact that you use the safest and most liquid network available. That should be worth at least a couple of cent per transaction, right?

Unfortunately there is always a problem with the government, with the country you are living at , it is actually very cool and lucky to live in a country which supports.
We have to actually find sites accepting Bitcoins and not even sites the offline one's are a real problem, also the lightning network is not embedded in every system and wallets that we use therefore it is actually a problem with everything.
It's not as easy as it sounds .

That's right, it should be really considered, sacrificing real work only for totality with crypto is not a good solution although crypto can generate income but in my opinion you can still do it even though you already have a permanent job.
most importantly, take the time to crypto and besides that you will have double the income from your work and the results of crypto and it will be much better.

We can use bitcoin as much as we can. I used it everyday but not for everyday living. I had another job or sideline to take and receive fiat. I just using bitcoin for my emergencies or when I needed it when I want to buy something on internet. same as you @lizarder fiat is still not acceptable everywhere in my country and people still doubt of bitcoin uses. but I don't care about them. as long as bitcoin helps me, I will keep using it because we know what it can do and where it can really help.

Many stores are not still aware that they can accept crypto in buying their items, in my country we can buy in stores but I prefer to not use it in buying, but there were times I used it in paying bills, as much as possible I aim to hold it until the supply reach that can create hype in demand.

There are only a few stores in my country that accept Bitcoin as a payment hence, just to use this currency I need to convert it first in our local currency to spend it. Even so, just like you, I try not to spend my Bitcoin as much as possible, perhaps I would consider spending if the bull market comes. Spending Bitcoin to buy what you desire is not bad at all because sometimes you need to treat yourself. As a matter of fact, you earn Bitcoin because you want to achieve something, you want to obtain something so don't hesitate to spend your earnings and enjoy it.

Your first point is obvious.



Yea you may as well spend it instead of fiat. When people say they don't want to spend their bitcoin it makes no sense. Things will get better as adoption happens and we will use crypto to fiat conversions less and less until crypto becomes a viable and supported payment option alongside the current ones we have right now.

Yes. I agree Crypto job is a good thing we can earn daily, there is more benefit as you all know but as you said we cannot rely on that job any time suddenly it will increase and suddenly it will collapse.

For short term daily living is fine but for long term it's difficult. Those who are doing crypto jobs will definitely change their life beautifully. But one should work every day to gain more profit and lead a happy life.

4 years ago I decided to focus on crypto, a difficult start, but over time I could live in crypto. indeed this work is no guarantee for the future, but for at least 5 years in crypto, we already have something for the future, like a business outside of crypto. because right now we can see, it is increasingly difficult to get bitcoin.

Bitcoin is a digital currency as that is perfectly working at any time, which we can convert to our daily living, which depends the level of operation, How ever, the price of BTC is keep fluctuating as it stated at the article you posted, and is a reality things we are facing, Finally bitcoin is a financial freedom.

I do, sometimes... Like paying bills and etc but it's a rare case because it's more convenient to use fiat. I barely see people paying with crypto. Bitcoin is like my source of extra income but it's hard to use bitcoin directly in buying things. We still need more mass adoption for us to achieve that scenario.

as of now, it is really hard to live only using bitcoin
in my country, until now you can't live only using card almost all the transaction is using real cash
like transportation, small groceries, and even small restaurant

 

Digital currency like bitcoin is an amazing thing that we can use daily instead of using credit cards or cash, it's even secure and easy, with few clicks using your phone you'll be able to transfer any amount of money to anyone in the whole world without a high transaction fees or any problems. So it's kinda good to be used for daily living, but the problem is that not all people have it and most of the people who have it, they're holding it because they knows how valuable it is in the future.

It depends though since not all would really be successful towards crypto.You cant say that you would had enough on 5 years time
on dealing with this market yet you could possibly achieve that in short of time.Its all random and it do all depends on your hard work
on how you do accumulate things and somewhat some sort of luck.If that happens then you might able to get yourself rich but depending
on how much money you had put in.

using bitcoin every day is still unacceptable in my country, because access to supporters such as ATM and others has not been given by the government, even as far away from expectations, but more to get money because bitcoin is a common thing .. !!

I am not enough with bitcoin investing because until today I keep holding bitcoin and altcoin assets after buying with higher price, I can't sell right now with faced much lost assets and keep waiting when bitcoin is up. Better holding than have sell with lower price because we know bitcoin always have drama how to play with higher price several months later.

I have the same situation as you, holding some bitcoin and altcoin, but I'm not worried about bitcoin, because I'm sure it can still rise higher, but I'm worried about altcoin, the problem is I've lost more than 80%, but I still hold. this is what always keeps me from living on bitcoin and relying on daily trading when I don't have a lot of capital, but some are stuck.

Unfortunately in my country I still cannot use bitcoin for many transactions. Only a few small transactions that can be done, other than that must use FIAT.
The regulations have been tightened again, so it is very difficult if you want to use bitcoin as a means of payment.

same as my country, although in my country bitcoin is legal, but as payment, this is still prohibited, but I don't know why maybe they pay attention to compliance with anti-money laundering and others. so I can use bitcoin as payment only in cyberspace, but at least it is also easier to do many things, such as paying electricity bills, internet, and others.

When I accept bitcoin from people or after doing a work, sometimes I don't convert it quickly too, I leave it and wait to see if the price will go up a bit, sometimes it will go down. And sometimes I just leave it in my wallet because I like opening my cryptocurrency wallet and seeing some money in it, and watching the charts and all that, it's really cool.

Using bitcoin daily is a difficult thing where I live, or should I say that it never happens. One thing I have done is go to the ATM to withdraw my Bitcoin but that's with a Bitpay debit card (it isn't a BTC ATM, there isn't one where I live). Apart from that, whenever I need to use the money I always end up selling the coins and sending the money to my bank account before spending it.

The reason why we just think that it is more convenient is because the payment has to do with an online thing and that is still the main challenge of cryptocurrency that I see because I don’t know who those that are not technologically inclined will be able to cope with bitcoin or will be able to pay with it, but if we look at the payment process itself, I think that it is going to be a little bit more convenient than using fiat if it as to do with payment online or cross bother.

Making payment across bother is one of the greatest things that cryptocurrency as ever done for me, which I think that the cost of transacting business across the bother with the two of them can really not be compared at all. Crypto payment is quite faster and even cheaper to me.

This means, that we see Bitcoin and we do have different strategies in making money and in investing, as per me, every time that I do have payment from campaigns or from trading, cashing out 90% of it, then retaining the 10% from other wallet, that I am holding in the long term, I see to it that at least I do have something for the future in case the Bitcoin becomes million dollar worth then it will be a great thing.

I am using bitcoin for trading and investing, I can't use bitcoin for currency payment because many market in my country still not support accepted bitcoin as legal payment way, I not worry with bitcoin only use for investing and trading assets because I think is best solution use bitcoin for increase my investing without have use bitcoin as legal currency payment, although have available using bitcoin for currency digital I like using cash money.

Actually I am one of the many people who are using bitcoin daily in my everday life. I am using bitcoin to sustain all of my needs and wants on my daily routine and I have been also using it as my financial support in order to use it as a payment on the things I needed to buy in school and etc. In my case I am converting bitcoin into fiat in order for me to use it as an alternative way of paying money into my local currency because not all of the stores and retailed shops are accepting bitcoin as a payment so that I am converting it into fiat in order to used it in many personal and daily transactions.

At least in my city you can't buy the necessary daily needs for living like groceries and pay utility bills directly with BTC so it is quite inconvenient to live just with it here. However with a debit from Wirex or similar payment processing companies it is definitely doable.. But you're not really "using" bitcoin. You are literally selling BTC for USD or whatever your fiat currency is in your country. In my opinion that is not real, measurable adoption.

I see a typo in your article though. USD has an inflation rate, not a deflation rate. You might wanna correct that ;)

I try to use bitcoin in daily life.But btc is illegal in our country that's why I can't use it properly.Bought a used phone from my friend and paid it via bitcoin. Also i bought huge amount of digital products via bitcoin. But maximum time need to exchange btc for fiat.if our country accept bitcoin then i will use my btc daily to buy product :)               

It is a matter of time for Bitcoin to become easier to use and more widely accepted.
But first, we have to solve the interoperability issues between the different blockchains and to start using the full potential of the tech stack as a whole.

In fact, there are some dApps already solving this issue: https://app.jelly.market/ . This is a dApp that executes cross-chain swaps between different blockchains, hence you can exchange BTC for ETH, or dump your TRX for BTC. The project will also integrate a bridge to Compound so that you can finally start lending and borrowing with BTC.

This is how we should search for ways to use BTC in our everyday life and not just hodl our BTC as safe haven asset.

In which country you are from by the way? That's sad that your government is restricting the way you were using crypto, it must have been difficult for you to cash out your fund.

Anyway, let's not worry about it we will for sure become one and that is to have a cashless society, so far in our country, we can use this to pay our bills and to deposit directly to our bank account/s.

Somehow I can consider I live my life with BTC since I work online though not related to BTC but every free time I get to browse what's new n the forum and checking what cause the price to take a nosedive or what cause the spikes. Its hard not to think of BTC every day especially if you have invested to it and have lose amount of money because of the 2 year bear market but I'm spending some btc and still holding some coins.

I really can't use BTC or altcoins to pay bills or purchase anything at my place. Cryto for me is still an investment option although I know blockchain is a powerful and cheap method to do any type of financial transaction. BTC due to its volatile nature is hard to be accepted as currency in my country, as as people are more concerned to save their money instead of taking risk to grow it and that is right as per their risk appetite. Lets see if things get changed with time.

I wouldn't say it is a cheap method to make transactions. The only way that Bitcoin will change and be used daily, will be if people start valuing it.

It depends how and what we are doing with our funds, as it has been my practice ever since, in my profit, I am allotting some of it thru savings, so I am transferring it to other wallet, before cashing out, I am paying my bills thru my Bitcoins and the rest of my fund, cashing out that we can use for our daily life or will save some if there is an excess from expenses.

I still remember in the 2017 period, many businesses in my country were very flexible using bitcoin for bill-related payments, etc., Many service advertisements spread on social media convincingly, and also on hypermart.

But they were all surprised at last because regulations finally emerged. Many things about crypto are very limited by rules.

At present the implementation of bitcoin is only about how to use it as an asset that can be managed every day. As long as the bank has no problem with fiat/btc transactions, I don't feel any significant hassle.

in my country bitcoin will not be easy to accept, the advantage for you if you can use bitcoin in everyday life. I'm also here wanting to use bitcoin for daily life, but it's not easy and has to be full of risks from state regulations

Bitcoin payment is illegal in my country but it is my main income now, i often use Bitcoin to pay bills on the internet or sell it for fiat money. However i think that Bitcoin for daily use basis is not a good idea because the high fee and the price is not stable.

This should be expected, when something is small governments do not really bother with it because they stand to get no profits out of it however once they begin to notice something is getting really popular that is when they begin to try to regulate it.

And during many years governments thought that cryptocurrencies were only for a few computer enthusiasts but in 2017 they realized that was not the case and that is when we began to see a lot more regulations been passed in most countries.

Using bitcoin as direct payment seems it was never done before because limited of used so bitcoin cannot be used to made daily transactions because although bitcoin pretty popular in my country but it not more than for trading purpose and virtual asset so use bitcoin to buy my daily needs seems near to impossible for me and until now although i'm bitcoin user but the fact is i still need fiat and compare between transactions use fiat and transactions use bitcoin i think i make more transactions use fiat rather than bitcoin

I use bitcoin to support all my needs and desires in my daily routine and I also use it as financial support to use it as a payment for things I need to buy household needs and others.

Actually I am one of many people who use bitcoin every day in my daily life.

I have never used Bitcoin directly to pay for anything, but I have used it to buy gift cards. I make use of the BitPay wallet and it has always been my means of spending my Bitcoins whenever I want.. I ordered for their Visa card last year and I have been using it, it's really cool, except for the fees. But, they don't charge any fees when you want to convert your Bitcoin to dollars.

There are lots of gift cards that you can buy from the BitPay wallet, so instead of withdrawing my Bitcoins I can simply just buy the gift card I need, whether Amazon, Delta, XBox or any gift card, and I can then spend it on the platform on whatever I want. That's really one of the coolest things about Bitcoin right now. I have also done face to face transaction with a local Bitcoin exchanger, and have him make fiat payment to my bank account. Using Bitcoin is really cool.

In my country there are insufficient of accepting bitcoin to buy goods and things. So only few we can use btc to pay bills and services. Though we can use it in our daily lives but limited only. Hopefully in the future more adoption of btc can happen.

I only use crypto to buy some mobile loads and pay some of my bills if I feel lazy to go out.
I only use it if I don't have cash but I think it could be great if we could use it anywhere and if every seller or company would accept it.
This could save us when we have something we need or want but we don't have enough cash to buy it or pay for it.
And also it would help a lot specially for those who are only earning in crypto they don't need to convert it and withdraw it anymore less transaction fee.

My personal bottom line now is always buy on the drops, sell into strength. but maybe you should wait and study trading strategies. I saw good ideas on taklimakan network, it will show when bitcoin will bullish, then buy or sell.

there are not many such traders. who wants to pay more attention to financial preparation, they remain in the game. price fluctuations can reach 30% during the day. this is something that beginners do not consider when they come to buy bitcoin

I am fully agree with you because I am not fully dependent on crypto daily as crypto is not allowed in the maximum countries including mine. We can't pay bills, withdraw money from atm or exchange crypto with fiat money directly.

Yes, in a small number of countries there are stores that accept bitcoins, so it is often used in online shopping and in very rare cases in real life, but I read at the neironix that ATMs that have received bitcoins in Black Friday have been put in the USA.

Would you sell bitcoin now before it drops even more as analysts say? I am not very versed in technical analysis. Therefore I ask you to reduce the risk of loss

Not bad but we need to begin to try to push people to accept bitcoin transactions directly, all of those methods to convert your bitcoin to fiat first are decreasing the effectiveness of bitcoin as a currency.

But I understand you, there are not many options at the moment where to spend our bitcoin and it is difficult to have your money there knowing that you could use it for something that you need and realize that there is not a store that accepts bitcoin as payment for what you want.

In my place not all shops accept credit cards, especially with bitcoin, maybe this is still not common for most people. They don't want to take the risk because the value is not stable, so this is still not possible in my country.
But indeed I use bitcoin as well or other crypto to trading and investment and have shopped using bitcoin, but that is also not often.

I too have used bitcoin to buy and sell things and services but now has limited myself to buying bitcoins from fiat and selling it to fiat cause the possibility of price increase and volatility doesn't make it worth the effort. I spent bitcoins mostly when it was around $200 and all I have now from that time is regret.

I think that most of us that have been in this market for several years lament to not have held our coins for a longer period of time, but we are never going to get those coins back so we need to concentrate on how to get more coins and how to keep the ones that we already got, and while I understand your desire to not use your bitcoin except to speculate with it if we keep that attitude then bitcoin is never going to progress as a currency.

If you have the opportunity to use bitcoin to pay for a product and it is something that you really need then use your bitcoin.

I d never consider BTC or crypto as a means of payment. At least not yet. It is simply to complicated ATM. As long as your grandmother or 11 year old child cannot use Bitcoin to buy simple stuff like bread or ice cream, crypto payments need to be simplified further.

However, making crypto your primarily source of income and then living on that, it is definitely possible. Several of my friends have quit their jobs and their sole source of income ATM s crypto and FIAT they received after selling crypto. That s the way we should all think about this new economy we all participate in.

I do not use bitcoin directly but I sell bitcoin in the local market in my country, where after selling bitcoin I get a local balance in terms of RUPIAH balance (INDONESIA) where it can be used as a voucher that can be used by other local market users named (INDODAX ) I usually use goods / transactions using vouchers because it's easier and faster.

That's the benefits of crypto even you can't used it directly but it have a value that you can exchange to another payment process or to your local fiat to enjoy, from where am I there's a lots of ways to use bitcoin as the local exchange have the partnership with other payment process and you can convert bitcoin to order online. It won't take the process for so long and you can enjoy your needs after.

Because most of the country now have their own ways to convert your bitcoin into fiat money, we also have the same way to exchange bitcoin and its very convenient and in 30seconds your money will be transfer directly to your bank account. Right now, I’m not using my bitcoin because its still cheap and I can’t afford to sell it at a loss, maybe if the bull trend started I will start transacting using my bitcoin again.

Before, I got a full time fiat paying job we lived solely on Bitcoin/Crypto earnings, actually my Wife she is living on Bitcoin and paying all the bills, mortgage and her expenses again in BTC, but she has to convert to euros first. So she is living solely now form that but we save some of my earnings of fiat after I pay living costs here as right now we both work in a different country. It is not difficult anymore to live off of Bitcoin but sometimes you need to make arrangements to get the coins converted. I want to get a bitcoin debit card, that is on my list and so does my wife as well. That is something we both do not have yet.

Myself too prefer spending bitcoin selling it to traders on localbitcoins. Also we don't have much of access to buying of things with bitcoin. In recent years majority of direct bitcoin spending of mine were on gambling. In my country slowly businesses have begun to accept bitcoin, maybe when government makes strong decision supporting the usage of cryptocurrency daily living with bitcoin becomes possible.

Only use bitcoin for withdraw and keep become my investment assets, not available using bitcoin as legal currency in my country I keep trade and invest with bitcoin, I don't mind if government want to allow or not using bitcoin as legal currency payment, I am glad when my country give space for bitcoin to invest and trade on bitcoin without banned by government.

Here in my country too, bitcoin is not really supported by the government but they are not also banning it either. There are only quite number of merchants who only accept bitcoin but in my own place, there is none. So i can't transact things using bitcoin, but only fiat. But i know as long as more technologies will come to develop, bitcoin will be more acknowledged in the coming years.

I prefer bitcoin to be used for investment and trading even though i have an small amount of fund. There aren't as much use of it other than buying and selling and we dont have much access into buying things through bitcoin. I treat it as an asset not to be spent carelessly that's why im accumulating it. Even though bitcoin is legal in my country there isn't really much use of it to buy things cause local businesses hasn't really adopted it due being in a third world and people lacking the knowledge of it.

good to hear that from you . i wish many users can be like you were they will try to learn to use thier btc for everyday use instead of using a fiat , in that way they can somehow show thier support on cryptos like btc . actually we are on the same boat op as ive been also living with the help of btc and other cryptos i use them to purchase my need whether daily or on every other day  . id say that btc really helped me alot , once people know how to use btc i think they will never turned back  .

Become bitcoin legal using for investing and trading I think is enough because we can get much profit with bitcoin, to buy your daily needed just sell and convert your bitcoin become cash money, right money many escrow can you use to get money faster from your bitcoin assets without waiting one day for withdrawing your bitcoin, but you have looking for trusted escrow for your cash out bitcoin.

This is the reality, even in my country lack of establishment to use bitcoin as payment. So, still fiat money is easy to use that can buy goods and services. But, we can use btc in online to buy some what we needs. Also, I use btc for investment and trading other crypto.

Do you think it easy to make profit in trading bitcoin? Are you considering the risks? Trading bitcoin is not easy as you think, there are a lot of information that should be consider before making investment with trading. The volatility of the bitcoin is so high where the price is always changin every hour, minuted and even seconds. Buying and selling bitcoin is legal in our country but the government reminds our citizens that it is high risks investment and many people experience to lose their money in trading.

Fiat is still the leader in crypto as of the moment, and we can't deny the fact that it would be hard for now to replace fiat as we have been comfortable using it and we are secure since we can physically see it unlike in crypto that any moment it will be gone as there's a lot of hackers out there who were using crypto world to scam and to hack people's hard earned money.

Since this topic was created, I want to share the project we've created which is a point of sale, and since I am one of the many bitcoin and cryptocurrency enthusiasts here, I've decided to add bitcoin and ethereum payment option to it. That is because I believe that bitcoin in daily living could be achieved if we are to contribute our skills and knowledge in developing systems that could help people make their task easier.

Many investing in bitcoin because theg are believe that they can get a benefits. And bitcoin daily living of many investor because they can see there benefits once bitcoin price goes up. So investor are in good hand once they buy bitcoin because they are know what they are doing.

Today many people are trying to use the bitcoin or the cryptocurrency because they know it has a lot of benefits and advantage than using the traditional way. Commonly the people use the cryptocurrency to make money online. One of the good things you can do in crypto is to invest your money, while the price of the coin, your money will also grow. The other way of earning is to play gambling online with the use of cryptos it tests your knowledge and skills in gambling to make money. By these, it helps a lot of having a source of income and to your daily living like paying for bills and buy your needs and if you have extra money you can buy your needs. I highly recommend if you have money is to try mining too to have a lot of sources.

I prefer bitcoin as an investment or a profitable asset in the long run, but if I really need it, I will use it as needed because I prioritize bitcoin as an asset.
and other reasons because in the country where I live, if I want to use bitcoin to be used as a payment, I have to exchange bitcoin to fiat to be used as a payment or for whatever purchases I want.

It's kinda sad knowing that bitcoin hit and become popular as a form of investment rather than a currency, but that is what most likely to happen because of its price and I think satoshi nakamoto anticipated it that is why he made bitcoin into smaller denomination. I'm not going to be hypocrite, I am using bitcoin as a investment as a matter of fact I've been holding for a year now expecting the bitcoin could run to sky but its really sad. Bitcoin is supposed to be a form of currency to be use globally but whyy do we focus on smaller picture when talking about bitcoin.

In my country, you can spend your bitcoins but limited into this certain app but of course it still priced as what the local currency value is when converted which had a certain percentage between the sell and buy price made by the website and not on the actual buy and sell orders that's why I prefer to keep my bitcoins as bitcoins and have spare fiats that I can spend or convert some of it to fiat so I have money to spend. It is better to keep bitcoins rather than spend it or spend it in the online world which would be much less hassle when you use fiat.

There are lots of things you can do with cryptocurrency, most of them are not direct. I make use of cryptocurrency sometimes, and it's mainly for receiving money. Bitpay has made it easy for us to be able to spend our bitcoins nowadays, the VISA debit card allows users to be able to withdraw their bitcoin as cash from any ATM that has the VISA logo.

Apart from the debit card, the gift cards are another great feature of the Bitpay wallet, as users don't need to leave the site, they can easily convert the Bitcoin to gift cards and buy whatever they need, whether from Amazon, booking on Delta and a lot more.

in theory,I don't always use bitcoin every day ...
I prioritize future investments rather than using bitcoin every day ...
Because I'm sure bitcoin will have a brightly proven future ... with a few shops and several franchises has adopted BITCOIN and it is possible that world banks will use it as an interbank transfer ......
I hope The best for BITCOIN

some cases like this have happened in several countries, and so far if there are still exchanges that can make exchanges from Bitcoin to FIAT then that's not a big problem. the most important thing is that bitcoin still benefits the people in your country, even though its use cannot be used in full

Using bitcoin for payments isn't a good idea at all if you ask me as the transaction fees is pretty high and using fiat is quiet convenient as there is no waiting time at all for confirming the transaction and also no fees is required. I use bitcoin only for the investment purposes.

But what about those simply earning more and more of their income as crypto? Or those earning virtually all in crypto (I consider myself one). I used to think my type would grow, think I'm a bit wiser these days and I do realise it's not easy, the world of those dealing only in crypto is so small. But do people really repurchase bitcoin when they use it to pay? I know it used to be recommended and even in some Bitcoin communities like in Arnhem they seem to do that a lot, but why do you think people are fixated on keeping their bitcoin supply replenished? I mean, I spend as much as I can in bitcoin, and convert only what I need for stuff I otherwise can't pay with bitcoin.

Maybe we should be encouraging more people to transact in bitcoin, then we reduce the need to even replace with fiat.


Yeah? When was the last time you paid with bitcoin? Care to share your tx id? I'll tell you immediately how you could reduce your fees. I have not paid more than 1 cent (in satoshi) for fees in a really long time.

My bank charges me 25 cents for paying with fiat -- to local merchants!

There are many countries which don't allow bitcoin usage and there are many countries where you cant use bitcoin because of absence of infrastructure like crypto exchanges, crypto ATMS and more. In these areas people can never have a daily living on bitcoin  and bitcoin will remain just an asset until hurdles are removed.

Yes especially in Asian, seems like Bitcoin is becoming normal now in those countries especially here in Philippines wherein we don't need to hide anymore in banks and in the remittance center that we are working as a freelancer in crypto, or that we have earned from crypto trading, unlike before wherein they will question you a lot where is your income coming from.

The possibility of living on bitcoin is not yet visible in my geographical location. Though I do convert bitcoin to fiat before making payments of goods and services.
The speculative price of bitcoin doesn't encourage me to bank on it, despite that the digital asset is the most reliable on the long run.
The Popular and Unpopular ways of living on Bitcoin are interwoven as they aid the scalability of bitcoin.

It is the main issues of everyone who using bitcoin as payment. There are blockchain confirmations and it makes the transaction slower. Using fiat is more better than using bitcoin in our daily lives but today there is a new innovation where the transaction using bitcoins will become faster and it is the bitcoin lightning network.

Daily living with bitcoin only for trading and investing, with not have regulation in my country about bitcoin become legal currency payment I use bitcoin only for investment assets, if bitcoin have been legal as currency payment I keep use bitcoin for trading and better use cash money for payment transaction because I like make transaction with traditional market where not support using digital payment.

If I could use my bitcoin in my everyday life then I will do it but there is not a single store near me that accepts bitcoin so I do not have any option but to keep it and to try to multiply it, but as soon as that changes as bitcoin becomes more adopted all over the world I will have no problem using my bitcoin to buy the stuff that I need.

But at the rate in which bitcoin is being adopted in my country I have doubts that I will be able to buy anything during the next decade.

I actually use bitcoin in all my online transactions that accepts bitcoin as a means of payment. But in the country where i come from it is not all shops and business  centers that accepts bitcoin, but wherever bitcoin is accepted, I also use it for  buying, some shop outlets even place Notice of accepting bitcoin. The highest and most reliable place of using bitcoin is  on the  online transactions  where I easily use bitcoin.

Interesting very feasible once the utilities start accepted bitcoin....its funny we all need the internet ISPs even in order to use bitcon core, or this fourm, yet I have not seen any news of major telco or ISP accepting BTC...

Imaging automatic withdrawals one day with a trusted wallet architecture for paying the monthly utilities. Daily use will skyrocket.

Bitcoin needs to be an asset that people want to use. The cryptocurrency majority, only use it as an investment or rare sends.

You mean that in your country almost all stores accept bitcoin? Because it is difficult to live if you only use your bitcoin to pay especially since not everyone is aware of crypto currencies. Here in my country there are very few stores that accept bitcoin. So fiat money is still my main thing when it comes to payment.

You can not use Bitcoin as a fiat currency anywhere you want except you have some real world convertion on the shop you are buying at.

Or for instance booking a flight online you can simply use btc transactions since it worths value in fiat which then gives "money" from as in form of virtual cash to the flight company.

But yes i am using for my daily live in any sort of possible action (not going to state them as it's private ofc ;) ).

Bitcoin is a very useful money. I think it's the best way to send money over long distances. You pay low fees and the transaction takes place quickly. I use bitcoin for this purpose. I also bought games from Steam with Bitcoin.

It is nice to send money quickly, however because of the price changes you would need to sell the bitcoin instantly.

in fact bitcoin now has a good function for making transactions, so we can use it for transactions. for I usually use it for investment or daily trading if there is potential to do it

Bitcoin need a lot of merchants to make it can be as payment. If there are legally to use bitcoin as payment, i think people can start to use it. So, bitcoin can be directly to be something to fulfil our daily living like we buy real life things with bitcoin in a shop, like that.

First question; how do you earn bitcoin? Since you've been using it on a daily basis for years.
Don't you think using Bitpay debit card is just another way to convert bitcoin into cash? While you don't need to, but bitpay did it for you. Yes, not every merchants and groceries accept bitcoin payment, but the acceptance for bitcoin still quite low in many countries, lucky for people who can easily use it as a payment instrument instead of just keep it in the wallet.

Bitcoin is really amazing when we're talking about paying money with low fees and quickly, It can solve a lot of our problems in just an instant. People should get more interest in this cryptocurrencies and try to earn a lot of it and just hold it, because it's really a very strong crypto as well as it has the potential to increase in the future.

I don't think most countries or governments will accept crypto payment because they might feel they losing control by accepting a crypto payment. They won't have control over it as they will with government-issued fiat.
If crypto could be used for this then even people who have never used crypto will be inclined to accept it since they probably feel it doesn't have enough uses and if it cannot pay the bills they not interested. So that would change many peoples opinions about crypto and give very real and actually use for crypto beyond just purchasing luxury items and certain other items.

i never use bitcoin in daily, im just use it on my screen everyday. and am not sure if in my country there is some people use bitcoin in daily, its hard because not all store or service provide bitcoin payment. if you want to life with bitcoin, you must go to some country that accept and already implement bitcoin payment many store

Yes it cant be not unti they are the one who will gonna legalizes it. I am using bitcoin, for the daily expenses of my family, I cannot directly uses it , because I needed to convert it in fiat first but, it realy help me very much in every situations, hoping for bitcoin atm here so I dont need to convert first.

the use of bitcoin for me is only limited to investment or daily trading and when it is used to buy goods it cannot be because of its limited use, maybe that's all that can be done with bitcoin for its use.

No matter where you are going to do Bitcoin for a living it will be up to you, whether it is for trading, investing in ICO/IEO, just for holding, savings, or you want to buy something and they are accepting only Bitcoin, whatever it is what matters is that we are using Bitcoin in our daily lives, this makes it becoming more popular.

You are lucky if your country already recognized bitcoin as a currency.  As far as I know most country doesnt accept it as a rule of payment when it comes to stores. I only used bitcoin as a payment on some transaction but those are who only accept bitcoin. Most of the time I convert my bitcoin in to fiat to used for my daily living because in my country they didnt accept bitcoin. 

Living on Bitcoin? It's not quite possible where I live and the same thing with most other places. There are exchanges and wallets that don't offer their full services to some particular places for a reason that's best known to them.

Just like Coinbase, they don't offer services to some places, they will allow you to have access to their wallet but you won't be able to purchase and trade on their exchange, but only make use of their wallet for sending and receiving. The worst ones are the ones that will ask you to verify your identity and still allow you to upload everything and after you have done that, they will tell you their services is not available to you yet, very foolish. Bitcoin is not known much where I live and people don't accept it, except those that are into investing, buying and selling of it.

So you mean you do not exchange to fiat? ::)

Than you will be losing so much since you are wasting your time investing or daily trading for achieving the emptyness of limbo...

It does not matter if the buying goods is limited, as long you are living daily with it it's worth than doing nothing about it.

Most of the people that do not use it are losing something in return since Bitcoin has so many real world capabilities (it's fiat, face it)

The only reasons why you can't used your bitcoins either the price of bitcoin is low that you wanted to hold it or you experienced huge losses on your investment, that is why you are not able to used it in your daily life. Honestly, i used my bitcoins to provide the things that i need and to pay all of my bills, that is why i am really thankful that i met bitcoin because i couldn't do the things that i can do today without it.

People do not do their daily shopping with bitcoin, unfortunately. There are those who want to trade with Bitcoin. Bitcoin is seen only as an investment instrument. Shopping with bitcoin in everyday life is not becoming widespread. How could that be? I think the dollar-based system could be destroyed.

It is not being done because Bitcoin is not "valued". People still want to use USD.

Bitcoin is valued, but as a source for exchange of goods weren't practiced much. Little by little things will change, and the same will make daily living possible with bitcoin. Right now stores accepting bitcoin in exchange for products were available in very limited locations. When people prefer using bitcoins for purchase and other than trading and into gambling stores will also show interest into advancing with bitcoin acceptance.

These stores are exchanging the bitcoins that they are receiving instantly with a service like Bitpay, which is not accelerating the economy like I am talking about in the article.

I wish i could use my bitcoin in my daily expenses but unfortunately the marketplaces that operate in my country are not friendly to cryptocurrencies and so none accept it at the moment. I am hoping once the adoption of cryptocurrencies and bitcoin keep increasing they will get to understand things and modify their payment systems to accepting bitcoin.

There are only specific services that we can get from using bitcoin, the suitable wallet in my country is coins.ph.    There are a lot of feautes and services that they offered like paying bills, buying loads, buying game credit and of course fast transaction. But still we cannot live by just using bitcoin. Fiat has still a lot of functiond than bitcoin and for me it is better to use.

I believe people will still choose USD. because the USD has a stable value and doesn't fluctuate too much like Bitcoin. And I am sure businesses will not risk to accept payments with Bitcoin because they are at a very high risk of loss, the price of Bitcoin is always fluctuating every day. In the future I believe that cryptocurrency will be used as a payment method, but I do not appreciate that bitcoin will be chosen. The best is a stablecoin or an altcoin with the least amount of volatility possible

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While I am suffering the same problem as you we can at least raise the awareness of bitcoin by asking all the businesses in which we make a purchase if they have any plans to accept bitcoin in the future, and while the answer to that question is always another question like, what it is bitcoin? It is still necessary to ask the question since it is possible that some of those business owners decide to support the cryptocurrency just as we do on our own.

Actually I am using bitcoin as my primary investment. Every time that I do have an extra money, I invest it on bitcoin since I know that sooner or later it will become much more higher than I am expecting. I just need to know when is the proper time to sell it. I need to sell it higher than I have bought it so that I will gain profit.

i think i am way too far from this lifestyle mate because the availability of cryptocurrency to use in my country is limited ,meaning i can only pay bills but first need some conversions ,and also limited areas where i can buy goods and foods using my bitcoin so for me?this is a advantage defend on where you are located and hows your government stands towards cryptocurrency.
if both will have equal value?then why need to choose when the advantage of having transaction online is there?the safeties of your virtual money than physical is also indeed?of course i will use Bitcoin forever if that's the case.

And do you think that will happen?

Bitcoin is known for its volatility and if a business will be accepting it as a payment, just imagine how these businessmen will be losing a lot of profit in a day. Another thing is that most of them do not want to accept or even do anything about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

So you dont actually use it to transfer value for assets, only as a speculative investment?

It's kind of sad realising that bitcoin is becoming famous as an investment type rather than a currency, but that's what's most likely to happen because of its size, and I think satoshi nakamoto expected that's why he turned bitcoin into a smaller quantity. I'm not going to be hypocritical, I'm using bitcoin as an investment as a matter of fact that I've been holding for a year now expecting that bitcoin might run to heaven, but it's really sad. Bitcoin is supposed to be a form of currency to be used globally, but when talking about bitcoin, why do we focus on smaller images?

Many people today are trying to use the bitcoin or cryptocurrency because they know it has a lot of advantages and advantages over using the traditional money. Normally people make money online using the cryptocurrency. One of the good things you can do in crypto is to invest your money, while the coin's price will also increase your money. The other way to earn is to use cryptos to play online poker, which tests your gaming knowledge and skills to make money. By doing so, it helps a lot to have a source of income and to live your daily life like paying for bills and buying your needs and you can buy your needs if you have extra money. If you have money, I highly recommend it.

I think the government policy in each country will be different about the use of bitcoin itself, so for now it is still not possible to use bitcoin in daily life. Indeed, many merchants have accepted bitcoin and other cryptos, but I feel there are limits to their use and come back to a policy that has been implemented. I personally have used bitcoin and other crypto without having to convert it to fiat in the past, but with the new policy it is no longer possible to do in the present and I just hope for a better change in the use of crypto in the future.