I see your perspective and I also can't pay my bills with magic Internet money just yet.
Lots of people are suffering and looking for a solution. If Bitcoin does not increase in purchasing power against pieces of paper it's not a solution.
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It doesn’t need to increase in purchasing power AGAINST anything. The adoption is what unfolds it as a medium not the fiat gains. A lot of people came for the NgU but once the properties of bitcoin are understood it’s irrelevant. I can provide you a service and request a payment in sats that has no bearing to its “conversion” into fiat. Everyone’s numbers are different just like everyone charges different amounts for similar services. Just because you can’t pay for existing bills in bitcoin doesn’t mean those services couldn’t be provided by someone who allows bitcoin as medium of exchange. It’s just in the very early stages.
The future reality you are envisioning sounds nice.
I'll look forward to that happening one day.
Today a vast majority of what I need to live costs fiat.
I'm sympathetic to your perspective and held the same one for a long time. I consistently have to check myself even now.
Those who are struggling, and I'd include myself in this, are not struggling because of a failure of Bitcoin, but because of personal finance. Spending less than you earn is the only place to start. Only then can you invest the difference in a new system that will measure deflation and reward a low time preference.
Bitcoin will always 'go up' when measured against pieces of paper over a long enough timescale.
In general ai agree, however when the barrier to sound finance (without significant lifestyle compromise) is raised every year there are smaller and smaller percentages of people who can maintain the balance.
Additionally in considering 60+ retirement age people there are 'fixed income' options, but all are risky and losing purchasing power from what I can see.
You can pay for some bills using bitrefill or the bitcoin co.
Yes there are many work arounds, but the suppliers of a vast majority of goods and services are requesting fiat (for now).
That transition could happen faster than many anticipate.