Thank you for your response.

I think the point I'm trying to make is that as Bitcoin grows and matures we need to honestly assess it's usability under adverse scenarios... by a whole bunch of different users.

If 'gift cards' for Amazon is like the best/most private thing going on with Robosats... then we need to innovate.

My understanding is that they're region-locked to begin with, possibly to certain countries (like Germany instead of the entire EU) and let's be honest... it's not as good as having actual cash.

There may be other... markets where such gift cards could be exchanged but then it takes even more education to access them and use them.

In serious 'adversial' environments, for example for journalists in the Middle East or Eastern Europe (or even in the United States in some cases) Bitcoin is too hard to use privately unless people really want to study it.

The journalist or pro-democracy advocate doesn't want to have to become a Bitcoin 'expert' just to use private non-state money - they want to be the journalists or advocate or writer or whatever and have technology that's easy to use... that they can then turn into real goods and services so they can go about their advocacy privately.

Signal did this with the cell phone. VPNs have helped. Encrypted email has helped. We need to 'killer app' for Bitcoin that doesn't require running a full node too.