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I've been taking a portion of my paycheck in Bitcoin (via bitwage) explicitly intended as spending money for a while. I buy things regularly with it. The payment flow using a mobile wallet is pretty great.

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Genuinely interested in your perspective: In January '17, 1BTC was $800 and it's currently >$10,000. How can you justify spending X BTC on a good or service as you've now paid ~10x the original asking price?

The same way I justify not having spent every cent I could spare buying BTC over the last eight years.

I mined hundreds of BTC in 2011 to 2012, and sold pretty much everything as I went. If I'd saved it all, I'd have "fuck you money" right now, but at the time even $100/BTC seemed like a moonshot.

I'm not going to beat myself up over not having prescient knowledge of BTC or any other thing I could have invested in.

If you save some of the wages you get in bitcoin from 800 - 10k I'm sure you'll be pretty happy, not like the fiat increased in value.

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