If it takes to pay a coffee with cash in order to keep BTC serious, I'm all for it.
"in order to keep BTC serious" as what, exactly? Surely not money?
Not consumerist money.
Would you pay with silver coins your frap-thing?
"Consumerist money"? What's that?
I guess all the hype about bitcoin being "the fastest, cheapest way to transact," "currency of the internet," is just that? BTC is not money but a store of value (a role which it hasn't been super good in for the last couple of years)?
Hmyea, was just "Hype" to shave the consumerist sheeps and their VC lords.

Now, as the global financial crisis looms, back to the serious business of ensuring the robustness and inalienability of the network.