> A step in the right direction isn't wasted simply because they didn't arrive at (what you think should be) their destination yet.

I understand what you're saying and I hope so

anon

If all I'm doing is sending sats... which are immediately converted to Dollars for the merchant what's the point? I might as well be spending the "gold ETF" in my brokerage because that way it's being 'sold to someone else' (ie square) and the 'merchant' could just get Dollars in its place.

As I said before: It answers the valid question from newbies of what they can buy with bitcoin other than yet more bitcoin paraphernalia. "You can pay for a haircut" is likely worth a lot more to most than the usual "you can zap someone on some social media."

A step in the right direction isn't wasted simply because they didn't arrive at (what you think should be) their destination yet.

bitcoin

I paid my hairdresser recently on SQUARE and I don't know how I feel about it

> If all I'm doing is sending sats... which are immediately converted to Dollars for the merchant what's the point? I might as well be spending the "gold ETF" in my brokerage because that way it's being 'sold to someone else' (ie square) and the 'merchant' could just get Dollars in its place.

As I said before: It answers the valid question from newbies of what they can buy with bitcoin other than yet more bitcoin paraphernalia. "You can pay for a haircut" is likely worth a lot more to most than the usual "you can zap someone on some social media."

A step in the right direction isn't wasted simply because they didn't arrive at (what you think should be) their destination yet.