I have 4 years of 1st hand evidence that this is not the case. It's okay if you don't want to spend Bitcoin, others do. If you want to vote with your money to make a better world, spending your Bitcoin at businesses that value it is the most powerful. Spending your dollars at these places still makes a massive difference, but it ranks lower. View quoted note →

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Bitcoin only becomes peer-to-peer money if it's exchanged peer-to-peer. That's why I happily pay with Bitcoin to businesses that accept it. The more we encourage it the more likely it will become what we want it to be.
And the more businesses who will have clear incentive to build the products Bitcoiners want What's the use of freedom money if you have to convert it to slave tokens just to use it
Acknowledging your commitment to spending Bitcoin to favour certain businesses underscores the system's potential for economic alignment and user-driven change.