https://purse.io lets you buy anything from Amazon using Bitcoin.

You can buy anything with Bitcoin. It's really easy these days. Just Google what you want to buy plus "pay with Bitcoin."

Even if you can't find a way to buy something directly, you can convert Bitcoin to any other currency in seconds.

Bitcoin is the most liquid currency.

Hey @Bendejo

We're actually building a product for this exact scenario you described🍊💊. We've enrolled in the BOLT🔩FUN Legends of Lightning⚡️Tournament to build this idea out, our product is only 4 weeks old 🐣.

We're building Lightsats which lets you tip/gift bitcoin to someone that does not know anything about it without having to do a full onboarding and most importantly be able to recover your sats in case the user does not show interest in learning about it.

Our web app will help with user onboarding, from choosing a lightning wallet first to withdrawing their sats, to user journeys describing what you mentioned above.

That specific scenario you described where someone gives you the argument that you can't buy anything with it is what we're trying to demystify right at the beginning of their onboarding journey.

We feel like users who don't know anything about bitcoin should have an accessible directory of companies, services and uses cases they can experience firsthand in order to create a personal connection with it and hopefully inspire some sort of curiosity to start their learning journey.

So we came up with the following actions we think users could be interested in exploring in order to open up their view about Bitcoin's use cases -

https://lightsats.com/guide

In the case of spending, this is the list of companies we have added so far - https://lightsats.com/guide/spend

In the case of BTC Map, if you click on their listing it will open up their website with a world map with every business that has been listed there which accepts bitcoin. https://btcmap.org/map

For the second option Moon we feel like this would be a really cool experience where the user uses the sats they received to fund a virtual Visa card that could be used anywhere either online or in-store since it lets you add it to your Apple Pay or Android Pay.

Besides this, other examples that I have shown people I've tried to orange pill is showing them videos of what's happening in Africa, this is a really cool video that was just recently published about PicknPay which is a leading supermarket and now accepts payments in bitcoin. https://twitter.com/bitcoinekasi/status/1587416952305319936

If you want to test our product, send us a DM @Lightsats21 and we'll send you 1000 sats so you experience what it's like to receive a tip/gift using our platform.

To understand Bitcoin you must first understand central banking.

I have found that a good way to approach the topic is to imagine a hypothetical game of monopoly where behind the scene you are printing more monopoly money for yourself and using it to buy up all of the properties on the board. In this scenario even a child can see that the game is rigged yet for whatever reason many people have a hard time applying this logic to the actual economy which works the exact same way by design. People can see that the houses are getting more expensive but they do not understand the mechanism behind it, or why huge investment funds can buy up so many houses when they cannot afford even a single one. They don't understand that those nearest the printer win the game and that the only solution is not to play.

Bitcoin creates a new game where everyone is equal and you can compete on even footing. It eliminates the dishonest player from the board.