Quote from: larry_vw_1955 on March 20, 2023, 11:09:44 PM

i remember some NFL news that some team was paying players in BTC. i bet the team pays the transaction fee to put it in their wallet too.

A quick search shows that NFL players are on anywhere between $1 and $50 million a year. I'm pretty sure the teams would throw in the 50 cent transaction fee as well. Tongue

Quote from: larry_vw_1955 on March 20, 2023, 11:09:44 PM

they don't have any services that let you pay your usd bills using bitcoin? i guess even if those existed, they are centralized services and thus no more trustworthy than the bill pay at your local bank.

There are such a services, but I've never used them. They unanimously require a level of KYC I am uncomfortable completing. If I desperately need to pay some bill using bitcoin, then I'll simply trade my bitcoin privately peer to peer as I usually do and then use the fiat to pay the bill.

Quote from: larry_vw_1955 on March 20, 2023, 11:09:44 PM

yeah the funny thing is that at least in this particular instance, the us government stepped in and bailed out people that had usdc and might have lost it.

Ridiculous. I take major issue with tax dollars being used and new money being printed to bail out banks which collapse because of their own greed and risky gambling, which I've just started a topic about an hour ago. Doing the same thing for centralized scamcoins, even indirectly such as in this case, is utterly ridiculous.