I play this addicting rhythm game called osu! and while the game is free they offer these osu!supporter benefits for those who want to support it.

It accepted quite a lot of payment methods and one that caught my eye was BitPay, wait a minute, I can buy osu!supporter with cryptocurrency?

I could not hold my urge and I asked a friend to lend me some BTC, and I went ahead to do it. though the item was supposed to be $4 I ended up paying over $7 due to BitPay and on-chain network transaction fees, this was way before I learned about the lightning network, in fact, I only discovered lightning these past days and it's unbelievable!

Still, that's what got me interested in crypto and finally seeing what spending it felt like because I never thought anyone would use Bitcoin as a payment method, it was this weird internet token that stock market nerds look at the graphs, I thought.