• Mika@piefed.ca
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    6 hours ago

    There were more honest attempts to spread it and use it in physical/online stores back when BTC was under 1000 than now, and it’s not like we got higher exchange rate fluctuations. If anything, it becomes more stable.

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      5 hours ago

      Naw, we all talked about the once in a while pizza purchases that were reported on Reddit, but then a week later the $20 pizza was worth $100 in bitcoin. Right from the start.

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        2 hours ago

        On no, someone used money to buy food instead of hoarding money and only thinking about how much return they could’ve made if they invested money instead of buying food.

        Crypto-as-invement midset is a poison to the real crypto adoption - ability to buy things with crypto effortlessly.