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It's a bit unfortunate. In 2018, I was envisioning a future where people generally would pay using cryptocurrency.. because it is a technology that works by design, decentralized.. how is this not just the set solution?
At the time i was selling some used stuff on our national popular marketplace, but nobody wanted to pay me with crypto.
Now lately it just carries this dark atmosphere of being used for bad and illegal services.
Me and my close friend would send each other crypto when owning up for stuff like paying the rest of the half of the food when he paid for us both. He lost interest, and we eventually went back to normal stuff.
Though with the hopefully coming traction of decentralized services like fediverse services, maybe we'll also then see a new traction of cryptocurrency being an ok option for payment again.
Same, I almost convinced a friend of mine to start settling debts in crypto, but he later decided not to because he had heard that this could be a "taxable event" and wanted to be squarely obedient to the IRS.
I explained how Monero could fix that, but he immediately said no because he had heard about "bad actors" using Monero. He wanted to use algorand. Some people don't want to be saved.