Quote from: wareen on November 04, 2011, 07:30:15 PM

Quote from: Stephen Gornick on November 04, 2011, 07:13:45 PM

Personally, I'm sticking with Bitcoin. I see it this way -- because it is trivial to "restock" my supply of bitcoin, I don't hesitate to choose it as the currency I use for spending. And because when I spend using Visa/MC/PayPal, the merchant gets less than a dollar for each dollar I spend, I believe it is only a matter of time before we start seeing incentives from merchants driving us to use Bitcoin as the payment method. i.e., I as a consumer gain more from using bitcoin for a payment than I would gain as a speculator from the increase in its value.

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Couldn't agree more!

I especially use credit/debit cards for small purchases because the banks take a good chunk. I write checks for larger payments because it is slower for the payment to process.