Haha yesterday was quite interesting. Needed to buy milk and produce at my organic grocery store. The bill came to $81.83. To pay for this with bitcoin I did the following
1.Opened my the bitcoin company(TBC) app
2.Went to visa pre paid cards and entered the amount of $81.83
3. Selected to pay via Zeus wallet
4. Zeus wallet acknowledge the request I slide to pay
5. About 45 seconds later payment is confirmed
6. Open up TBC app and get my challenge token
7. Copy paste the token into the pre-paid card redemption field
8. Get my credit card number exp and security code
9. Open Apple wallet
10. Select add debit or credit card
11. Manually entered in the card details
At this time the cashier suspends my order because about 5mins have passed and the customer behind me was told to start loading their groceries 😆😆
Apple Pay confirms my card
And before the cashier can start scanning the customer’s items I say I’m ready. He recalls my order and I make payment via Apple Pay.
A lot of work to use bitcoin to pay for my groceries. But until shops take Bitcoin directly this is the way unfortunately. So
Is a bit of time invested, but worth the effort (and challenge) I think. In this other case, the card would have stayed with some unusable credit... or there's a way to discharge cards when containing some change?
Nah I don’t like to do this then you have a card with like random amount of dollars and cents. I like to spend the cards to zero then delete them. Don’t want to start having 5 or 10 cards with random amounts on them
But that doesn't mean they use bitcoin, they just go back to fiat and even worse, they support perpetuating the use of fiat.
These posts it supposed to be a P2P payment using bitcoin not bullshit crap intermediaries fiat ramps.
Why should I always remember why we are here and what really is Bitcoin?
I do not see anywhere in this abstract saying about Visa cards as usual payments for bitcoin...
It's pretty cool for what it is. Bitrefill had a bill pay feature but it's been shelved in the US so Spritz has been the alternative for now. No lightning support yet unfortunately
Might have been some social media accounts? Oh then I've also used some sats that I've earned to power up some trial accounts on Hive, tiny stuff really.
Mainly for VPNs like Mullvad, domains from Njalla and some server stuff, all things where me leaving no traces of my real ID makes sense, especially long term :-)
And in a way Monero has been a sort of stablecoin for that, that is because its not heavily traded and that it is propped up by the only real free markets online!