@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • edit-21 month agoBitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post)thedabbler.patatas.caexternal-linkmessage-square368fedilinkarrow-up1839arrow-down1125file-textcross-posted to: bitcoin
arrow-up1714arrow-down1external-linkBitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post)thedabbler.patatas.ca@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • edit-21 month agomessage-square368fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: bitcoin
35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called “Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji”. F that
minus-square@Knock_Knock_Lemmy_InlinkEnglish2•1 month ago I cannot take my crypto and go down to the bodega and buy a sandwich. You can ^(but I admit that 95% of the time there is a payment middleman needed to convert crypto to fiat, just like Visa is a middleman)
minus-square@EntropywinslinkEnglish4•1 month agoSo what you are literally stating is you cannot use cryptocurrency to pay you need to convert into some other actually accepted currency…
minus-square@Knock_Knock_Lemmy_InlinkEnglish1•1 month agoAlso, have you ever been somewhere that is card only?
minus-square@Knock_Knock_Lemmy_InlinkEnglish0•1 month agohttps://swissmoney.com/who-accepts-bitcoin-as-payment
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-1•1 month agoThere are ways. Visa has crypto-linked cards for example. https://cointelegraph.com/news/visa-crypto-withdrawals-cards-145-countries
You can
^(but I admit that 95% of the time there is a payment middleman needed to convert crypto to fiat, just like Visa is a middleman)
So what you are literally stating is you cannot use cryptocurrency to pay you need to convert into some other actually accepted currency…
Also, have you ever been somewhere that is card only?
https://swissmoney.com/who-accepts-bitcoin-as-payment
There are ways. Visa has crypto-linked cards for example.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/visa-crypto-withdrawals-cards-145-countries