I'm have begun making a few purchases via Bitcoin and Ethereum. Most of the opportunities I have to use crypto revolves around storage and server services. I have had nothing but luck requesting a crypto option and getting it when purchasing technology services. Unfortunately I live in northern Canada and there are more bear than people around me. I don't even want to know what would happen if I went down to the local tavern and tried to use Bitcoin.
I'm also going to scale back my bounties. I have been using a quantity approach but i'm seeing the game evolve to a quality oriented system which in the need is much more beneficial and much less work. It seems like the bounty hunters are creating a disaster in this forum so I'm going to cut back.
I do own a farm (apple orchard and raspberries). Once again I am in the wrong part of the country however maybe I will create a sign and give a discount for crypto use however I doubt I will get many hits. i get lots of mothers and kids doing pick your own berries. It would be amazing to transact with my fellow countrymen without using central banker scum notes.
Any chance Bitcoin is a government creation made to tax transactions? I worry we may be unknowingly ushering in a tax system for the elite but it may just be paranoid thinking.
You're definitely one of the early adopters and kind of like me, libertarian leaning and actually using bitcoin every now and then.
I don't think bitcoin is part of the government, that'd be like shooting themselves in the foot.
Don't let the paranoia take control of your life. Bitcoin solves real problems, yes, it also creates new ones.
If you're smart enough, you can completely avoid the government in your transactions and you can even legally avoid the banks, which get their power from the government in a round-about way.
Technically you're constantly breaking a bunch of laws all the time, (if you live in the US), so to a certain extent you have to pick and choose.
Follow reasonable tax laws by all means but don't rat on yourself for buying a box of chocolates over the internet or in person using bitcoin, you don't have to.