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I bought 2 whole computers, a 3D printer and many parts for different equipment paid with Bitcoin.

Perhaps not quite "water, milk, fuel, transportation, or anything necessary" but certainly far from "an exotic and volatile investment vehicle for millionaires to play with".

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Mentioning some relatively niche gadgets as a showcase example actually supports the premise of Bitcoin being nowhere near being ready for mass adoption. People would want to hear something like "I paid for all my needs for a full week with Bitcoins".

I remember (but very poorly, as this was over a quarter century ago and wasn't that important to me) back when there was a TV show (I remember this being in Japan, but that is quite likely my brain filling in gaps) where they locked someone in a room and they had to figure out how to live off of only things they could purchase off the Internet. Of course, this was extremely difficult, as most of the things you could order online were "some relatively niche gadgets". It was big news when you could order pizza off a website, but that was only in the United States and probably only in some places... I can't remember what he did to get calories but I remember it being interesting and I think it involved a website he found that sold cosmetics? It could very well be I am mixing this story up with something else :(. But like, it isn't as if the Internet was somehow universally useful from the very beginning... 1999 changed a lot, very quickly, but the Internet was already something even normal people could access for a number of years before then.

No, he didn't order them, he had to win them[1] via entering sweepstakes.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi

I bought some things a long time ago but none of those services take bitcoin anymore. It has regressed in this area.

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