When I first saw this article, I ignored it because there was too much text
This is the first time I have read such a long text in the forum.
Although the story was quite long but interesting.
LOL. I don't usually start threads, and this one probably looks like an essay for school or something. I did my best to break up the lines of text so it wouldn't look like a BWOT but apparently it did anyway--sorry about that, everyone! When I have something I'm particularly excited to write about, my posts tend to be a bit on the longish side.
I paid 0.0005 BTC Bought a t-shirt and 0.0004 BTC shipping fee.
Even though I paid $50 for some computer diagnostics, you should have kept the bitcoin. Just saying.
And if this wouldn't be bad enough the owner of the cafe I usually hang out that does accept bitcoin (this being the only reason I do go there actually) has told me that there are 3-4 usuals that pay like this, he only twice got some german tourist and that's all.
As I said, a lot of people (I'd say most of them, though I have no data to back up my statement) view bitcoin as an investment or a hedge against fiat and therefore don't want to spend it when they could be spending fiat. Would you pay for those beers and hookers with gold coins rather than banknotes? Well I guess
you would--and there's nothing wrong with that--but a lot of bitcoin holders wouldn't, which is why we're not seeing widespread adoption of bitcoin as a currency.