I recently took out a very small amount of BTC to pay for a Christmas dinner. It was the very first time that I had used my BitPay card. So I sent $200 worth of Bitcoin to the Bitpay card, and was charged $17 in fees. I'm still very confused about when I can get a Monaco or Tenx or Centra card, but that is another story.
The dinner was absolutely delicious, probably the best meal of the year. However, the Fees put a spoiler on an otherwise very nice evening.
Now, I check out one of Bix's latest videos, and I love his comment. "Bitcoin is not useful." I would have to agree with him. It just really isn't.
Put in terms of scale, I paid 5x in fees that would I would have paid from an ATM in fiat.
In several of my earlier posts, I talk of LTC, VTC, GRS, and even XVG as currencies. (It seems XVG is getting some momentum these days, and perhaps will be the "Silver" to the Monero "Gold".)
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