I've been struggling with the following.
We all want Bitcoin to be used more and hopefully replace FIAT at some point in a distant future. We try to onboard merchants to accept Bitcoin as well as orange pill more users to buy Bitcoin and then subsequently spend it. We try to hodl and then preach do not hodl, spend and replace This by itself is already quite tough to convince people of this behavior since most just hope for increase in price, that is why hodl is so popular.
That is not what I want to talk about though. There is another even bigger hurdle which keeps people from using bitcoin.
For most normal people in western economies, spending bitcoin has time consuming consequences and probably a moral/psychological barrier. Let me explain.
If someone were to spend bitcoin for a coffee on a regular basis and they did everything by the book, they'd have to calculate how much gain/loss was produced by the spent bitcoin. And let's face it, nobody is going to do that. That kind of bookkeeping is just retarded. Spending Bitcoin should be seemless, fast, and not add another headache. This is not going to work.
Assuming, nobody can be bothered with doing their own accounting based on their daily expenditure in Bitcoin, so one could argue that by asking people to spend bitcoin, we are basically asking them to peform an illegal activity (to break the law).
And this is the issue. Only minority of people are going to dismiss the legal consequences that could arise from spending bitcoin and not reporting it. You have to be pretty deep down the rabbit hole in order for you to say fuck it, I'll just use it and fuck the gov. Normal person will not do that and we cannot expect them to do that.
I know that many of us here, do not bother with this and we all know what @DarthCoin thinks :), however, the sad reality we are fighting here is what I have described above.
I am not saying that orange pilling more and more people is a lost cause, on the contrary, that is the only way to prevail. Plus we are still very early in the Bitcoin age and I am sure this won't be an issue when majority of the world is orange pilled. I just wanted to voice this concern that is not being discussed that much and I feel is being dismissed by a lot of the bitcoin community. Thanks for reading.
I will fight for Bitcoin. Bitcoin is fuck you money, and my BTC address is 1FUCkyoUg2yEncsvLCr2o4SqBssQTzK8zk