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Monero @monero.town shortwavesurfer @monero.town 3w ago

Monero mentioned in the news

"That’s why, while almost no one pays for coffee with bitcoin, many use the privacy coin monero (XMR) to buy this or that"

https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2024/06/14/mass-adoption-would-ruin-crypto-keep-it-a-niche/

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I paid for a lot of coffee and pizza with bitcoin, but that was back when the fees were reasonable
- Oh, so did I when fees were reasonable. I used to use Gyft all the time to obtain Starbucks, groceries, etc. Now that is totally unthinkable. Bitcoin for that use case is dead.
  
  I still use it for $500 gift cards. But if you know of a legit source for cards to Amazon that accepts xmr, let me know
- so you're the guy
  
  A lot of us did. But this was about 10 years ago.

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