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Even with wallets using Bitcoin is not user friendly in any sense of the word. If you already use PGP, sure. If not, good luck securing those keys. Oh and hope

• JepZ 9y ago
  Well, Bitcoin doesn't have to be so complicated to use. In fact, once you set up an account, sending and receiving money with coinbase is pretty simple. But yes, setting up an account with all the verification stuff isn't neat in the first place and storing your keys at an online provider is unacceptable for any sane person. On the other hand, there are some very easy to use desktop wallets like Exodus and making offline backups of your keys by writing down a few words (BIP-39) is pretty simple too. Sadly, not all wallets support BIP-39 (for various reasons), and e.g. Exodus complicates the matter by asking you for a password before telling you the words which is completely unrelated to BIP-39. So Bitcoin itself could be very easy to use. In my eyes the only real problem is obtaining them. I mean for everything else you just need to download some software and off you go. But to buy bitcoins you still need to register yourself with some institution which takes a few hours at least. It would be so much simpler if you could just buy some bitcoins at ebay/amazon/steam/...