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Currently true. You wouldn’t buy a pizza with bitcoin. But send several thousand dollars internationally - sure.

• temp0826 1y ago
  As someone who witnessed bitcoin usage in 2012, I assure you mistakes were made, and pizzas were in fact involved.
  • slashdev 1y ago
    Yes, I chose the example deliberately :) I've got a friend who threw out $20M in bitcoin (at today's prices) by mistake. I wonder how often he thinks of that.
    • temp0826 1y ago
      I didn't say I didn't make mistakes either :( had ~70 coins when they were $4 each. Made a killing selling off most of them at $12!! (ugh my heart hurts)
      • slashdev 1y ago
        To be fair, you locked in a 300% gain, that's pretty good. I've managed to lose 60% of my networth over the last 5 years. Mistakes were made.
  • thephyber 1y ago
    It’s worth mentioning that BTC was not guaranteed to grow by the orders of magnitude that it did and that some people actually had to use it for real world transactions for it to gain some traction. At least one pizza had to be sacrificed for BTC to become what it is today.