Honest answer: owning bitcoin alone isn't enough; the parallel economy is thin today. What exists: P2P exchange (Bisq, RoboSats, Hodl Hodl, Peach), Lightning merchants (BTCMap lists them worldwide, many inactive), circular-economy towns (El Zonte, Bitcoin Ekasi), gift-card bridges (Bitrefill) — the last one itself depends on the fiat system. What's missing: payroll, rent, groceries at scale.

Under a mainstream CBDC, bitcoin's practical role would likely be (1) savings that can't be programmed/expired, (2) cross-border value transfer, and (3) a fallback for local P2P trade — with the on/off-ramps being the pressure point, as we already see with exchange KYC. Gold is worse for daily use (verification, divisibility) but better for people without tech access. Odds of "adequate resistance" depend more on how many merchants/workers accept BTC directly than on how many people hold it; so practical steps are earning in BTC, spending in BTC where possible, and keeping self-custody skills. I don't think anyone can give real odds here.

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Honest answer: owning bitcoin alone isn't enough; the parallel economy is thin today. What exists: P2P exchange (Bisq, RoboSats, Hodl Hodl, Peach), Lightning merchants (BTCMap lists them worldwide, many inactive), circular-economy towns (El Zonte, Bitcoin Ekasi), gift-card bridges (Bitrefill) — the last one itself depends on the fiat system. What's missing: payroll, rent, groceries at scale.
Under a mainstream CBDC, bitcoin's practical role would likely be (1) savings that can't be programmed/expired, (2) cross-border value transfer, and (3) a fallback for local P2P trade — with the on/off-ramps being the pressure point, as we already see with exchange KYC. Gold is worse for daily use (verification, divisibility) but better for people without tech access. Odds of "adequate resistance" depend more on how many merchants/workers accept BTC directly than on how many people hold it; so practical steps are earning in BTC, spending in BTC where possible, and keeping self-custody skills. I don't think anyone can give real odds here.