If bitcoin was accepted everywhere would you use it?

[bitbaby]

If this were to happen it would be a dream come true for every bitcoiner but realistically for something like this to happen Bitcoin first of all would need to get legal status and it won't be without imposing certain restrictions, government won't give away their control to a decentralized currency. I think firstly we should convince more and more companies who conduct their business online to accept bitcoin, once we are able to achieve that then we can think of getting it accepted to local retail stores.

But to answer your question, I try to find shops with bitcoin when I am looking to buy something and if someday it is possible I would love to purchase everything with BTC.

[ragi]

If I get paid in BTC I will spend it. It will be much easier for me.

[Q7]

Of course. I don't think there's any reason why I shouldn't. It is what everybody is waiting for.... for bitcoin to be accepted mainstream and it means going anywhere and you can actually spend your coins at every shop and outlet. The thing which I can imagine most convenient is when you are traveling to any country and that you don't need to carry different types of currency with you.

[cryptojumper]

I am curious as to why and who would use bitcoin if it was accepted everywhere.

 I know it would be great for everyone who has invested into bitcoin, but if it was just as accepted as money would you still be as inclined to use it?

 If you have a business that involves bitcoin or you have some sort of exchange then I can see it being a great thing for demand, but why would you use it if you could just as easily use fiat money?

Transaction times are a bit too slow for mass adoption at the moment and we all here still need to get rich so it's more of an investment right now. After this I'm going to use my valuable satoshies for basically everything to stay away from controlled banking system..

[drugs]

I am curious as to why and who would use bitcoin if it was accepted everywhere.

 I know it would be great for everyone who has invested into bitcoin, but if it was just as accepted as money would you still be as inclined to use it?

 If you have a business that involves bitcoin or you have some sort of exchange then I can see it being a great thing for demand, but why would you use it if you could just as easily use fiat money?

Transaction times are a bit too slow for mass adoption at the moment and we all here still need to get rich so it's more of an investment right now. After this I'm going to use my valuable satoshies for basically everything to stay away from controlled banking system..

How are transaction times slow? They're instant. Confirmation times don't really matter. Once you've sent your money it's as good as sent/recieved.

[Herbert2020]

I am curious as to why and who would use bitcoin if it was accepted everywhere.

 I know it would be great for everyone who has invested into bitcoin, but if it was just as accepted as money would you still be as inclined to use it?

 If you have a business that involves bitcoin or you have some sort of exchange then I can see it being a great thing for demand, but why would you use it if you could just as easily use fiat money?

Transaction times are a bit too slow for mass adoption at the moment and we all here still need to get rich so it's more of an investment right now. After this I'm going to use my valuable satoshies for basically everything to stay away from controlled banking system..

How are transaction times slow? They're instant. Confirmation times don't really matter. Once you've sent your money it's as good as sent/recieved.

this is a common mistake to say transaction instead of confirmation time.

and i think that is an issue right now because a shop has to wait at least 5 minute and at worst half an hour to get confirmation (really receive the money in his pocket).

otherwise there is the risk of double spend of 0 confirmations.

[jubalix]

there is a hard core of church of HODL...and BTC has become my precious to them....they probably will never be able to bring themselves to ever sell a BTC for anything....which are essentially lost coins.

The Psych to HODL no matter what has this carry on effect inmho

[Kapz786]

Yes of course, I'd use bitcoin more than I use dollars.  But bitcoin would only get more accept if there's a bigger demand in the market, and everyone is willing to try this new piece of technology that they never seen before. I would for sure spend more time to invest in bitcoin if it was accepted in McDonald for example. That means I don't even have to carry a wallet when I go out, just a bitcoin debit/master card. I wish this would happen some day. 

[knowhow]

well my business would accept them for sure low fees and didnt need to declare them ,with fiat we must say we earned xxx ammount on that day.... with bitcoin we dont need those soo is free money to be spent at other comerce.Im sure there isnt no one where i live that use it but till end of the year i will accept bitcoin as payment but im not expecting people to know it ,they will ask about it im pretty sure .Soo maybe i can bring some new member into bitcoin world

[MicroGuy]

I am curious as to why and who would use bitcoin if it was accepted everywhere.

Very few 'buyers of bitcoin' will ever use Bitcoin to make traditional purchases, even if it's accepted everywhere. And here's why ...

Not a single person on this forum has been able to provide an "intelligent" explanation as to why a consumer would willingly and regularly take an extra step to make a purchase. Why would my next door neighbor go to the trouble to buy BTC to make a purchase when he could have already made the same purchase using the debit card in his pocket.

What is his motivation for taking that extra step?

[Brewins]

Why wouldn't I use

Now I have to pay withdraw fees and withdraw the money from bank when I'm going to use it, if I would able to use BTC directly things would be simpler and better for me

[QuestionAuthority]

I am curious as to why and who would use bitcoin if it was accepted everywhere.

Very few 'buyers of bitcoin' will ever use Bitcoin to make traditional purchases, even if it's accepted everywhere. And here's why ...

Not a single person on this forum has been able to provide an "intelligent" explanation as to why a consumer would willingly and regularly take an extra step to make a purchase. Why would my next door neighbor go to the trouble to buy BTC to make a purchase when he could have already made the same purchase using the debit card in his pocket.

What is his motivation for taking that extra step?

Because if I use my debit card to buy heroin online they'll know who I really am.

My favorate edible panties store only takes Bitcoin.

Contract assassins give 2% cash back for Bitcoin.

[Brewins]

I am curious as to why and who would use bitcoin if it was accepted everywhere.

Very few 'buyers of bitcoin' will ever use Bitcoin to make traditional purchases, even if it's accepted everywhere. And here's why ...

Not a single person on this forum has been able to provide an "intelligent" explanation as to why a consumer would willingly and regularly take an extra step to make a purchase. Why would my next door neighbor go to the trouble to buy BTC to make a purchase when he could have already made the same purchase using the debit card in his pocket.

What is his motivation for taking that extra step?

Because if I use my debit card to by heroin online they'll know who I really am.

My favorate edible panties store only takes Bitcoin.

Contract assassins give 2% cash back for Bitcoin.

Don't try to make people think that BTC is only good for illegal stuff...

Not every seller is able to accept credit card because I myself would have no idea how to use it if I wanted to do small sells , but I know it would be expensive.

And Bitcoin makes possible people earn money by ways that would not be possible or would be too difficult before the Bitcoin era, and they need to spend the money sometimes{I myself face this problem}

[BIT-Sharon]

It will be used by poor people than rich ones, rich ones would use it more for profit.

[BADecker]

If Bitcoin were accepted everywhere, of course we would use it. There wouldn't be any fiat around to use.

[JarvisTechnology]

I'd sell my fiats for bitcoin when it happen
I could bring my smartphone anywhere for payment with bitcoin, make online payment with bitcoin, etc

Also, finally i could prove to my family & friends that bitcoin is the future

If bitcoin use everywhere,I will definitely use it ,it's good to have our own bank.It will become easy to use,as of now Bitcoin ATM is also their to convert bitcoin into local currency anywhere through the world. It is easy to hold and use it's debit card.Bitcoin is completely have a saver side with our own risk(because of private key stolen or loss)

[rubberbandloser]

I would.  Easier than straightening out lining up my dollars.  I would really like to pay for my gas with it.  And not have to worry about some skimmer stealing my credit card number.

[Xialla]

I would for sure. Even I tried it personally only couple of times to pay for physical assets like coffee, it was every time comfortable and cool. I hope, that this moment will sometimes come..

[Amph]

I am curious as to why and who would use bitcoin if it was accepted everywhere.

Very few 'buyers of bitcoin' will ever use Bitcoin to make traditional purchases, even if it's accepted everywhere. And here's why ...

Not a single person on this forum has been able to provide an "intelligent" explanation as to why a consumer would willingly and regularly take an extra step to make a purchase. Why would my next door neighbor go to the trouble to buy BTC to make a purchase when he could have already made the same purchase using the debit card in his pocket.

What is his motivation for taking that extra step?

Because if I use my debit card to by heroin online they'll know who I really am.

My favorate edible panties store only takes Bitcoin.

Contract assassins give 2% cash back for Bitcoin.

what if you cash at your atm and you use cash to by eroine? not much different than doing it in bitcoin, but i think worse, because no one will know how you used those little money

I am curious as to why and who would use bitcoin if it was accepted everywhere.

Very few 'buyers of bitcoin' will ever use Bitcoin to make traditional purchases, even if it's accepted everywhere. And here's why ...

Not a single person on this forum has been able to provide an "intelligent" explanation as to why a consumer would willingly and regularly take an extra step to make a purchase. Why would my next door neighbor go to the trouble to buy BTC to make a purchase when he could have already made the same purchase using the debit card in his pocket.

What is his motivation for taking that extra step?

bears in mind that the OP is talking about a scenario where the wage is payed directly in bitcoin, so you don't need to buy any bitcoin, this is the real difference and that's the only advantage that fiat have over bitcoin right now

if it wasn't for that stupid advantages bitcoin would be a far better choice than any fiat garbage

[QuestionAuthority]

I am curious as to why and who would use bitcoin if it was accepted everywhere.

Very few 'buyers of bitcoin' will ever use Bitcoin to make traditional purchases, even if it's accepted everywhere. And here's why ...

Not a single person on this forum has been able to provide an "intelligent" explanation as to why a consumer would willingly and regularly take an extra step to make a purchase. Why would my next door neighbor go to the trouble to buy BTC to make a purchase when he could have already made the same purchase using the debit card in his pocket.

What is his motivation for taking that extra step?

Because if I use my debit card to by heroin online they'll know who I really am.

My favorate edible panties store only takes Bitcoin.

Contract assassins give 2% cash back for Bitcoin.

Don't try to make people think that BTC is only good for illegal stuff...

Not every seller is able to accept credit card because I myself would have no idea how to use it if I wanted to do small sells , but I know it would be expensive.

And Bitcoin makes possible people earn money by ways that would not be possible or would be too difficult before the Bitcoin era, and they need to spend the money sometimes{I myself face this problem}

So you don't think it's even mildly curious that when Silk Road is alive and well, no one is afraid to do illegal stuff with Bitcoin because they think they're anonymous, Pirate's Ponzi is running and illegal stock offerings are everywhere Bitcoin had a 15 billion market cap and the price was climbing daily. Then the sheriff came to town, killed all the train robbers, made them realize they're not anonymous, started applying the law to LBC and woke everyone up, Bitcoins market cap dropped to 3 billion and the price is more stable than a loaf of bread since that happened. Sorry, but that's a little too coincidental for me. The volume you see now is mostly normal legal trade. That sucks. I want Bitcoin to soar again because I'm holding a bunch of them.

A place for everything and everything in its place. There's nothing wrong with Bitcoin filling the illegal market niche. Let's face it, it's easy for everyone to buy legal things with their current payment method. They don't need to change. People are naturally lazy and if they don't need to do something they usually won't. The desire for illegal items gave people a real need to use Bitcoin. Isn't that what we all want?