[POLL] How will you buy groceries in 10 years?

[dacoinminster]

I know my answer, which I will divulge later in the thread if asked (I don't want to skew the poll before you vote). What do you think?

If you are not a forum member or you are stuck in the newbie section, you can also vote in the reddit version of the poll:

http://www.freeblogpolls.com/polls/1256870-imagine-it-is-10-years-from-now-and-you-have-to-pick-up-a-few-items-at-the-grocery-store-after-scanning-your-items-you-pull-out-your-smartphone-and-scan-the-qr-code-on-the-payment-screen-and-touch-authorize-payment-how-did-you-pay

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bqou8/poll_how_will_you_buy_groceries_in_10_years/



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[carborundum]

First vote! Bitcoin is going to be *huge* . Assuming the ASIC crowd don't kill it with a monopolistic oligarchy.

[dserrano5]

Imagine it is 10 years from now, and you have to pick up a few items at the grocery store. After scanning your items, you pull out your smartphone and

—Daddy,
—Hmm?
—What's a "smartphone"?

[WiW]

RAISE THE MAX BLOCK SIZE.

I vote for option A: bitcoin. Assuming we RAISE THE MAX BLOCK SIZE!

[Eri]

Bitcoin obviously. it is what it was designed for XP

[Driice]

Fiat. I don't want to awkwardly stand there 5 minutes waiting for a confirmation.

[BTC Books]

Something built on top of bitcoin

My thinking is something along the lines of Bridgewalker.

[OlgaA524]

Grow your own food while your computers mine bitcoins!

[nebulus]

Via CoinGig

[moni3z]

there will be food riots by then here so I will buy groceries by throwing street garbage cans through the windows and cleaning out the canned string beans.

[dataphile]

USD

Because I'm a realist.

[BTCisthefuture]

Impossible to predict 10 years in the future, but based on the evidence I have now I would have to assume I will be buying groceries with USD just like I do now.

BTC would have to 1) be widely available that most retail outlets  2) STABLE in value

Number 1 is possible, there's yet to be any evidence though of number 2 happening anytime soon though. So until that happens I have to assume I'll still be using government currency for most things.  When I go to the store to buy groceries with a dollar it's nice to know that tomorrow it's still worth a dollar.  I can't say the same with bitcoin,  yet.

[Mike Christ]

With Litecoin or one of its clones.

[BTCisthefuture]

I think most people would need to get paid in bitcoins to want to buy groceries with them. I can't imagine many people getting paid and then converting that money so they can go buy food when they could have bought the food without converting the money.  Doesn't seem very practical, it's cool and all for the nerd in us, but not practical.

Also as I posted earlier, BTC would need to be pretty damn stable for most people to want to buy groceries with it. Groceries is an expense that every family has to deal with and it's usually one of the biggest expenses and it's arguebly the most important expense for a family (no food and you die).  Imagine how frustrating it would be if you worked your butt off to put food on the table, went and bought $200 worth of groceries for a week for your family and then the following day you see that BTC you spend wouldve been worth $300 worth of groceries today.  That would be heartbreaking for many families and few would want to deal with that.

I'm sure nerds like myself though who simply love the idea of BTC will buy things like groceries from time to time,  but 10 years isn't that far away and something as important as food for your family still doesn't seem very realistic

[QuestionAuthority]

There was no option to pay with milliliters of gasoline so I chose fiat. I think at the rate gas is increasing it will be worth more than bitcoin in 10 years!

[agath]

Without waiting 10 years, if Bitcoin rises a bit more in value, everybody will talk about it, and every merchant would accept them instead of fiat. Who would be so crazy to refuse?

[LightRider]

In a future resource based economy, there will be no need for meaningless token exchange to gain access to the necessities of life.

[WishIStartedSooner]

There was no option to pay with milliliters of gasoline so I chose fiat. I think at the rate gas is increasing it will be worth more than bitcoin in 10 years!

lol. 1 gallon of gas? that'll be one bitcoin please.

[mishrahsigni]

bitcoins will never replace cash.  just like gold will never replace cash... cash will be used as the intermediary to value-stores, like gold, silver, bitcoins. 

Bitcoins is more like the new gold, not the new 'money'. 

[Nicolai Larsen]

In 10 years you don't go to the grocery store. the grocery store will come to you at exactly the moment you want it to, with exactly the wares you want.