Joshua Zader At one time, most people hadn't heard of Bitcoin either....
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Joshua Zader At one time, most people hadn't heard of Bitcoin either. Privately custodied Bitcoin is easy if you don't spend it. Most Bitcoiners speculate with Bitcoin; they don't spend it in their day to day lives. To the extent that they do, they often use centralized custodial wallets like walletofsatoshi, as p2p Bitcoin transactions are expensive and time consuming (due to the Bitcoin core devs failure to add layer 1 scaling). It's been so awful to use Bitcoin as e-cash at times, that even some major Bitcoin conferences only allowed ticket purchases with credit cards not Bitcoin. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/event-bitcoin-conference-apos-t-134338042.html Or Bitcoiners swap into custodial stablecoins like Tether or USDC. To be fair, most people don't use Monero for making day to day purchases either. But Monero is slowly gaining market share--it's replaced Bitcoin on the darknet markets, and has started replacing Bitcoin in legal markets as well: https://finbold.com/cryptocurrency-dethrones-btc-payments-in-europes-biggest-bitcoin-store/