I agree completely. I go out of my way to spend sats, at least for small items, that are at least tangentially connected to things I'm interested in. I look for these places there just... aren't many yet.

Lol I remember one bar I went to, fairly recently actually, specifically because 'the map' said they took them. Takes bitcoin lightning and on-chain...

Well the employee couldn't be bothered to find, much less charge up, the iPad that the manager had set out to take lightning payments! She was like 'it doesn't work. It's not charged.'

I came back an hour later expecting it might be charged enough to take *one* payment...

'It's still not charged' she said. She was 'too busy' to charge it (she said). I was the only person in there. So she's like 'will that be cash or card'? I was hungry so picked out a sandwich and left. 

I have had other experiences like this too.

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Well said. Don't forget that to make bitcoin accepted as a payment, we shall start asking merchants to do so. You're right, not finding many of them is discouraging, but the presupposition of hodling is not helping with that at all. Sats shall flow into the economy.