Using a Bitcoin gift card to purchase goods is the same as selling it for cash.

> you can literally have them lose value in your pocket via deflationary monetary policy

Deflation means your money gains value doing nothing. The dollar is inflationary. It loses a little bit of value if it sits around doing nothing. (If you have lots of money losing money to inflation, you're hiding illegally-obtained currency or doing something stupid.)

Moreover, this is an odd complaint to make of the dollar relative to cryptocurrencies, which have a habit of suddenly losing lots of value.

> the work only with the confines of a nations borders

Dollars are relatively internationalized. And again, an odd complaint to make of the dollar relative to cryptocurrencies.

Disclaimer: I am neither a lawyer nor a CPA. This is not legal nor tax advice.

What a surprise, the person railing against fiat currency and trying to reinvent credit cards "but with bitcoin, and without fees!" has no idea what they're talking about.

And I think you only need that disclaimer if you are a lawyer or CPA and what you're saying could reasonably be construed as legal or tax advice.

Being subject to taxes is a byproduct of the transaction, not the currency you use. You don't pay different tax rates for a transaction in Euro compared to the same transaction in USD.

I'm sure what you mean isn't that BTC makes it easier to avoid paying taxes, right?

Dollars are accepted pretty much anywhere.

I always find it ironic that Americans worry about the value of their currency when it's the currency that other countries turn to when theirs has collapsed.