What to get a gauge on how often you plebs spend bitcoin either on chain or via lightning
Never5.5%
Once or twice to try it out20.0%
A few times a month 29.1%
A few times a week23.6%
Daily life! 21.8%
55 votes \ poll ended
185 sats \ 1 reply \ @EnormousPony 8 Sep 2022
Daily on Stacker News. Then when I need a anonymous VPN I pay that in bitcoin, I also paid my hardware signing devices in bitcoin
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115 sats \ 0 replies \ @gd 8 Sep 2022
This. SN is now my most frequent sat spending (and earning)
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247 sats \ 0 replies \ @ThrillerX_ 8 Sep 2022
in Austin it’s everyday
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210 sats \ 0 replies \ @martinschumchr 8 Sep 2022 freebie
Daily on microlancer.io
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147 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zordon 8 Sep 2022
Voted daily because you specified lightning via Fountain and now SN (still new - BLOWS my mind I got a few hundred sats for job posts and being active!!!!) I feel like I give as much as I get.
But outside of a few times to try it out or orange pill a friend I don't spend on chain.
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205 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoinplebdev 8 Sep 2022 freebie
Almost never until I moved to ATX about 3 months ago. Now there are a decent number of restaurants and services I can pay for with Bitcoin along with paying friends back in sats for drinks, donating, stacker.news, and stuff like that.
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205 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 8 Sep 2022
I spend every damn day. I give away sats buy stuff with them stream them and even put them at risk vía covered calls! What’s the point of having sats if I’m not going to use them! If I had saylor’s stack I would give away BTC like it was burning up the private key that secures them
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125 sats \ 0 replies \ @linesgone 8 Sep 2022
Lately daily because if v4v… I spend most of the sats I earn here on SN and in fountain… works out well and never need to touch my HODL stack or secondary stackl. Bonus is that I’m very well versed in the lightning wallet space now.
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106 sats \ 5 replies \ @sommerfeld 8 Sep 2022
Why would I spend my precious sats if merchants keep accepting my worthless fiat?
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115 sats \ 0 replies \ @deleted231216 8 Sep 2022
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256 sats \ 3 replies \ @gimmeh 8 Sep 2022
Why would you still have worthless fiat to spend when you could buy precious sats?
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105 sats \ 0 replies \ @DeezSats 8 Sep 2022
I always wonder how people still have fiat to buy sats with. Unless they are living below their means and stacking the excess, in which case kudos.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @sommerfeld 9 Sep 2022
Because I have an operating financial budget for fiat expenses.
Exchanging that for bitcoin and back to fiat would just make me loose on fees and spreads.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gimmeh 6 Oct 2022
If you start spending sats where you can, that budget will shrink to match. This leaves you with more sats in the end.
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105 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 9 Sep 2022
I have an agreement with a friend to pay him in bitcoin every Monday for my part of the fees for renting the indoor soccer field here
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105 sats \ 0 replies \ @038b0f24c7 8 Sep 2022
I live on sats in my daily life, so daily. Once you have a decent amount of buffer, it's easier than many people may think, even with the fiat price being what it is.
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105 sats \ 0 replies \ @deleted231216 8 Sep 2022
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @0364d00578 9 Sep 2022
A few times a month. It's definitely picking up.
Conferences, steak delivery, local tacos.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @scampy 9 Sep 2022
For purchases maybe a few times a month. I usually use it to top up phone credit and one-off Amazon purchases.
But then there's also micropayments like stacker and podcasting apps. These are harder to quantify but I use them daily.
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