>go to grocery store
>buy a week's worth of groceries
>"Sir that will be 0.005 BTC please"
>Swipe BTC card
>Stare at cashier for a couple hours as we wait for confirmations
And this is supposed to replace modern currency?
one way to fix this right now
>go to grocery store
>hand them opendime
>>3401213
Gyft.com faggot get the Android app
It's supposed to be a store of value. You don't go into stores and buy things with gold
God fuck this thread why does it have to happen every day
>go to grocery store
>buy a week's worth of groceries
>"Sir that will be 0.005 BTC please"
>"I mean 0.007 BTC"
>"I mean 0.015 BTC"
>>3401213
what will actually happen
>use lightning network
>confirmed instantly
>0 risk of double spending
>"gee im glad bitcoin is world currency, that was easy!"
>>3401777
I kek'd
>Want Groceries
>Yell at Siri what you want
>Siri tells you the price and you confirm
>30 minutes later an AI driven Lambo drives up to your door and a drone carries your groceries inside for you
>>3401777
lmao
>>3401213
>leave store
>get home
>see that the value of BTC has tripled while you were out
>paid three times the price of the groceries like a retard
wow what a useful currency
>>3401213
>>>/lightning network/
Off-chain payments will confirm instantly (well, y'know, time for network requests is still necessary, but no need to wait for confimation blocks) and have lower fees. And they're still decentralized and without counterparty risk (someone can't take it back after sending it to you).
>>3401821
As opposed to right now:
>leave store
>get home
>see that the value of BTC has tripled while you were out
>paid $x for groceries now instead of $x for BTC that would have tripled and then using that for groceries
>>3401213
>Go to store with $200 with a bitcoin
>"That'll be 0.005 bitcoin anon"
>Just as you're about to swipe your bitcoincard the chinese wake up and dump on the market
>You have significantly less value in bitcoin now
>Transaction declined
>Have to wait ten hours for the chinese to go back to sleep before you can buy anything
>By then the milk is bad
L O L you fags are DISILLUSIONAL
>investing in currency instead of technology
you missed the point
>swipes shift card