Original Post - Paying my car loan with Strike Bill pay Part One of Follow-up - Watching the settlement thereof

So Saturday, I paid my Discover card using the Strike Bill pay². First though, I set up a mock sell order with Strike to see how many sats it would cost to have sold at that point in time to check again and see what the difference would be. Well, as you may have seen, the dollar dipped hard yesterday, and since I had used bill pay instead of selling the bitcoin myself and waiting for it to transfer to my bank, by the time the charge hit my Strike account this morning, the difference was 21,332 sats in my favor. That is despite and after the $6.37 Strike fee. 21,332 sats. That's the amount one gets for writing a flaming hot post on SN or maybe an hour of work at Chipotle. My point is, it's significant, but it's not nothing.

The lesson: well nothing really, this is just kind of neat and maybe something worth thinking about. I'm not sure exactly what the take-home is, but at least we all have a better idea of how this service plays out in different scenarios. Ultimately, I was just lucky that the dollar dipped at this moment instead of bitcoin. Short term, either of them can change and that's just the risk of having to hold to pay certain bills with the currency backed by violence.

Cheers to the day we can pay more bills direct with bitcoin.