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I try to spend it in person according to the 'btcmap' website (great site). However places that actually accept it are very rare (outside of a few concentrated places in North America). It seems like there is a remarkable amount of confusion as to what bitcoin actually is, why someone would actually have it, and why merchants should accept it after all.
Maybe it's all the 'crypto' narratives, maybe it's all the taxes that are involved supposedly in spending on coffee/small items... I don't know.
But it's like there is a disconnect between what bitcoiners see and what 'the world' sees and I don't understand it.