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This is, frankly, ridiculously dismissive, and you violated both guidelines. If you've never heard of Bitpay, I'd suggest looking it up. I can purchase softwa

This is, frankly, ridiculously dismissive, and you violated both guidelines. If you've never heard of Bitpay, I'd suggest looking it up. I can purchase software on Microsoft's store, hardware on Newegg, a phone line from AT&T, whatever from Overstock, I can travel via Expedia among other travel brokers, I mean seriously... "You can't buy stuff with it" has no obvious interpretation. Did you mean specifically in some part of the world? Specifically from Amazon or Target?

mundo 7y ago
I phrased it vaguely because I meant it that way. Is there one specific thing keeping Bitcoin from being widely used? No, there are a bunch of challenges. Why do you think I should've listed them? Don't you pretty much know what they are? Is it not safe to assume that the other people this deep in a HN thread on the subject do too? Sure, I should've said, "...enough stuff" or "...easily enough" or some other minimizing qualifier, to keep uncharitable readers from mentally inserting a maximizing one. (I would've edited it in, but the edit button was already gone) But I also don't think anyone involved had any genuine trouble figuring out that it was implied. I mean, it's common enough to merit its own bullet point on the HN Guidelines list.