Original Post: #407777 Update 1: #407930
Update 2
Living on the BTC standard is proving to be more challenging than I had anticipated, and it's only the first day. I hadn't realized how frequently I use EUR throughout the day; most of the time, you don't even think about it. Here are some issues from today:
  • Had to drive to work as I didn't have time to figure out how to purchase a ticket using BTC. Still need to figure out how to buy gas, though.
  • Received a 30 EUR fine; will need to figure out how to address this one, but I still have some time.
  • Asked my wife to pay for the concert tickets as it was almost sold out.
So essentially, the only thing I could do was get my lunch with BTC by purchasing a Rewe (grocery store in Germany) gift card and driving to Rewe at lunchtime because I couldn't buy gift cards for any of the nearby shops. Buying a Rewe gift card from Bitrefill, however, was very smooth.
As I was quite upset with this development, I bought a Bitcoin hat from copiaro.de, a shop that accepts lightning. Maybe it's a bit too late as spring is coming soon ;)
Exploring the P2P market, but it seems like my wife will be my P2P market for a while. We will discuss it this evening.
Also, pricing in sats is not working at all at the moment. I spent 26000 sats on lunch and am still not sure how I feel about it. Not even talking about ~90k for a hat.
But it's only the first day, one step at a time, right?
p.s. and thank you everybody for a very valuable feedback on the previous 2 posts, a lot of homework to do
Living on the BTC standard is proving to be more challenging than I had anticipated, and it's only the first day.
Nothing good comes in easy! I think the first step could be simplifying life to see what you actually need, then you pill those shops or people that you engage with all the time.
And here is my journey. 👀
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Amazing post, thank you, a lot of useful links, I will keep exploring;)
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happy to help!
and I guess this is a journey, both internally and externally - knowing what you actually need and from whom ( money was created for value exchange ), hard at first but then it slowly became easier.