What if you could buy your next breakfast with crypto?
My Morning thoughts as I munch my breakfast...
Money as a medium of exchange of value
As we as a civilization evolved from nomads to doings different roles in the society we essentially relied on a barter system.
This system basically helped two people make an exchange or barter between what we had and what we wanted.
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The value of exchange though notional but it was functional. Slowly valuable metals like gold and silver became a store of value and evolved as a currency of exchange.
Somewhere down the process we settled into an administrative system that took control of the currency putting a tax on income and controlled the way money moved.
Down the line our money was no longer backed by gold, silver or anything of real value.
It was a piece of paper or round cobbled metal with markings.
It was a promise to pay and we have lived by this promise all our lives.
Sometime not too long back we started using digital wallets.
It gives you the option to load your wallet with fiat money.
Either by way of
- Walking into a shop paying cash to the guy who loads it into your wallet through his terminal
- Use a credit/ debit card to load your wallet
- Link your wallet to your bank account and directly spend money from there or send it to someone
Of the above three I tend to use the option of loading via credit or debit card more often.
Even though a lot of wallets promote linking your bank account to your wallet however for some reason I am not able to convince myself to do so.
Over the years these wallets have gained acceptance and the advantage is you do not have to worry about the right amount of change being returned to you. As you can make a payment of the exact amount.
The way we use money is changing
With the current pandemic we are sceptic about coming in direct contact with people. Even the surfaces we touch could be infected and can cause us to come in contact with the virus.
This includes the currency we touch and it is a difficult task to clean the currency.
One could wash the coins with soap however cleaning currency notes is all together a different game.
This has changed my inclination towards digital wallets.
Inclination towards plastic money and digital wallets
Now I reach out to my phone and fire up my digital wallet to make a payment.
This happens a lot more now since I am reluctant to handle cash.
One can scan the QR code of the store and make the payment. This is contact less and less cumbersome than handling currency notes.
Though some people do not accept digital payments and for them I carry some currency in a zip-lock plastic bag which I carry separately.
As I usually wear gloves and handle everything wearing these I try to reduce the risk of bringing back the virus and infections into my house.
Could crypto take its place ?
Since digital payments are already being accepted around us so a big question arises could crypto payments replace the digital payments for making purchases?
Crypto payments can be must faster and efficient as compared to fiat payments.
They can offer lower fee and guard our privacy too.
One may argue what is the harm in letting someone know you just bought 1 bottle of milk some 30 minutes ago?
There is a lot more to making payments for milk through the digital fiat wallet. Your wallet tracks a number of things from the amount you load into your wallet to the brands you buy and the quantity.
This is vital information in the hands of marketeers who use this information to target campaigns towards you.
Rather than you seeing the information you want, the marketing agencies create ads and content about the things they want to sell to you.
Thinking of the crypto payment alternative
What if the process went like this? you go to a store pick up the stuff you need and use an anonymous crypto wallet to make payments.
This would be without having to share vital personal information without your consent.
Maybe we should help the stores near us get to use crypto. A good starting point could be getting on to Hive, steem blurt and making an account to account payment.
SourceSorry if you find this a bit cheeky. However the stores sure could accept crypto payments.
It is time to take the initiative
Perhaps with people more inclined to use digital payments we could look at creating options to make crypto payments as a means of paying online or at stores.
I am aware there may be the odd cafe or store that accepts digital crypto payments but they are difficult to find and not the norm.
A much better scenario would be to have crypto being accepted everywhere and seamlessly.
On boarding the masses to social media platform like this that reward you in crypto could be a good starting point.
Apart from that we need a seamless crypto fiat gateway so that the money flow does not get interrupted.
Hopefully we see that day soon and it is one in which crypto is accepted without the negatives of fiat currency.
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It would be spectacular, I believe that at that moment we will have transcended hahaha... the digital era came to stay and it would not be bad to be able to incur in other payment options.
absolutely agree and look forward to the day we could do that.
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This buying and paying directly with crypto is something I'd like to do. The use of wallets is a great benefit.
It facilitates many processes for us. I think we're slowly getting there.
Yes those of us who know these wallets surely see the advantage I am sure and hope that it gets mainstream soon.
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Yes, there is a high possibility of mass usage. I hope so.
I think we are getting there but it will still take some time before crypto is accepted as a normal form of payment most anywhere. I would really like to see an easy way of making this happen though.
yes the wait has been a long one. Though crypto is relatively new as compared to fiat but to adopt the right crypto fast the benefits can be enormous.
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It is exciting to know that we are facing the formation of a market based on that technology, it reminds me of the beginnings of the web and how it has evolved.
I remember those early days to . remember the dial up modem and the sound it made ?
yes and we get restless though every change takes its own time
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Ah I still dream that one day I'll cash some crypto out and buy something. I have a dream to fund a trip for me and my wife with the money I make from crypto. Who knows maybe next year at this time I'll enjoy some ice-cream on the beach in a trip funded by Tezos or something 😌
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I too plan to have a more secure future with crypto investments.
What is your strategy HODL, staking , trading or something else?
A combination of staking and hodling. Got into crypto only recently so I didn't aquire a lot of wealth. I made $273 in 6 month of blogging. I mostly stake ATOM, Tezos and Tron. I have some bitcoin as well. In total I think I own around 10 crypto assets (coins and tokens)
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I feel it is a nice start congrats! slow and steady you can see your crypto fortunes grow.
Since you are in a couple of good projects so your investments should grow over time.
Good luck
Thank you, good luck to you as well in your crypto-related endeavours
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