182 sats \ 0 replies \ @ctramount OP 18 Nov 2022 \ parent \ on: Chris Tramount, Chief Executive Pleb of Scarce.City & SatsCrap AMA 🤟 bitcoin
The biggest advantages of bitcoin commerce is that it's natively global and it enables a more seamless user experience -- no linking bank accounts and there's less reason to require registration/login in general.
The challenges are many people who hold bitcoin still aren't comfortable transacting it. The wallet, etc infrastructure has a way to go to lower the barrier but it's mostly people just going through the motion 1 time. Good thing is when they do, it's a magical experience.
Another challenge is many people don't WANT to spend their bitcoin (for good reason). So bitcoin does not make sense for many commerce categories and I don't expect that to change soon. The categories that do make sense so far: