Quote from: DaveF on Today at 05:10:02 PM

I posted something about this a while ago. It's getting better, and with places like bitrefill other gift card providers & all the exchanges offering credit cards it will get better still. Just slowly.
Big merchants can get reports about where their gift cards are purchased. So as they see more and more coming from places like bitrefill they might take a look and go hmmmm this could work. With PayPal now slowly letting merchants accept BTC / crypto how long till some do it on their own.

Can we really call it Bitcoin adoption when Bitcoin just gets incorporated into the Visa/Mastercard/PayPal systems and real coins are rarely moved on blockchain? I was thinking more about directly sending and accepting Bitcoin without any intermediaries, because that was the point from the beginning.

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on Today at 05:17:27 PM

The answer to this paradox lies on this sentence:
The reason this paradox exists is because bitcoin is seen more as a long-term investment rather than a currency. It favors you to keep it instead of spending it and that's true as for speculators as for its deflationary nature.

Only if you put the advantages of it above this fact, you'll use it as a currency. So, in order to break this paradox, the people have to respect privacy, sovereignty and censorship resistance more than their capital appreciation. Tough thing to do.

There's a ton of other reasons why people are not using Bitcoin as a currency, but here I want to specifically discuss the problem between merchants and their customers that neither makes a first move in adoption.