Ah yes, the "you're just jealous" argument, champion to people who are too blind to realize that BTC has serious downsides. Look man, a massive speculative bubble popping is gonna have huge repercussions to a non-trivial number of average non-techie people who read an article about how some nerd got rich on digital Beanie Babies and threw their life's savings at it. Those are the people who are gonna get fucked, not the people over at Bitcoin Idiots, LLC who can afford to lose some fun money betting on Internet bucks.

You should check his comment history, its worth reading.

has he successfully converted his bitcoin into "fiat" currency? or does the college accept and denominate tuition in BTC?

It's pretty easy to do - sell for fiat on any exchange that trades in it, and deposit fiat to your linked bank account. Unless you're unloading millions, then you're better off doing an auction.

Serious question - is there any doubt that one can successfully convert BTC to fiat? I've done it many times on the major exchanges (Gemini & Coinbase) with absolutely no problem.

because past $100K it becomes difficult rising to impossible from every person I've directly spoken to