I think that this is the reality of my personal "bitcoin standard" at this time in history (as I'd guess it is for most among us that have one.) I'm not seeing a path where everyone has this standard, so I expect this to be the status quo for the rest of my life. I don't mind living with it, despite that this view mostly has helped grifters/shitcoiners. Heck, there are days that I feel like more than half of the Bitcoin space is made up of NgU-only fiat maxis.

However, the problem with this approach is that it makes contracts hard. The final milestone payment of a BTC-denominated contract I delivered my end for is still not honored, now coming up on a year (#1014572).

This leads me to think that, if we want Bitcoin as MoE (and be able to have contracts denominated in it) then we should not treat trade against sats as barter?