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in 3-5years, sure, just like we are all currently using crypto to pay for groceries and smart contracts for all legal matters.

>>leftbe+(OP)
... no one ever used crypto to buy things. most engineers are currently already using AI. such a dumb comparison that really just doesnt pass the sniff test.

>>anthon+J6
Their green username is leftbehinds. Let them hold their wrong opinions based on outdated information.

>>anthon+J6
Not quite true. This pub's changed hands now but it was possible to pay in bitcoin for several years.

https://www.wired.com/story/london-bitcoin-pub/

>>jbl0nd+N51
For anyone who takes doing their taxes seriously, this is a nightmare. Every pint ordered involves a capital gain (or loss) for the buyer. At a certain point you're doing enough accounting that you might as well be running the bar yourself (or just paying in cash)!

>>anthon+J6
people use crypto to buy black market goods like drugs. Its incredibly reliable to buy drugs with.

>>benreg+281
Depends. If you hold crypto for more than a year in Germany, gains are tax free.

>>jbl0nd+N51
Inside scoop: the pub group who owned that pub (still going, owns four in Cambridge and environs) was cofounded by Steve Early, a Cambridge computer scientist who wrote his own POS software, so it was very much a case of "yeah, that sounds like fun, I'll add it". (Until tax and primary rate risk made it not fun, so it was removed.)

The POS software's on GitHub: https://github.com/sde1000/quicktill

>>anthon+J6
People use crypto all the time to buy dollars. Thats its main purpose: spend sanctioned rubles to buy crypto to buy dollars; use randomware to coersively obtain crpyto to buy dollars, etc.

>>adw+Fu1
That's brilliant insight, thank you. I enjoyed reading Steve's extensive read me.

Also I'm planning a trip to Cambridge so I've bookmarked one of the pubs for a visit.