His house was filled with petrol (gas) because he'd been paid and he had to buy something the same day that would keep for a month and hold it's value or his money would evaporate. So we sat in his house praying there wasn't a fire.
That's the use case for Bitcoin: currency of final resort. It's the same as gold only better (can't be faked, hard to steal etc).
I think in countries with stable currencies and after 2 decades of low interest and inflation, that's underrated as a use case...
I also believe (forgive the digression into my weird conspiracy theories) that one reason the US has made so much progress on legalised weed is because crypto and the dark web basically mean you can get whatever you want delivered right to your door. But that's just my own weird world view.