You can exchange it for food and housing and pay your taxes and bills. Try doing that in a city with any value store other than a fiat currency. The original q

You can exchange it for food and housing and pay your taxes and bills. Try doing that in a city with any value store other than a fiat currency. The original question is fundamentally similar than asking if you'd like to be paid in gold bars, grain futures, stock certificates, or live cattle. Would you want your salary to be given to you in a volatile commodity that you would be responsible for converting to currency? If you really really really want some bitcoin, it would be more prudent to get paid in currency and then immediately convert some portion of it to bitcoin.