To a first order approximation, nobody uses bitcoin as a currency. There are a handful of enthusiasts who might use it such as yourself, but you are in the absolute minority of bitcoin holders.

HODL would not be the meme it was if the goal was to actually use bitcoin in day to day transactions.

This is an opinion presented as a fact. A source would be helpful.

I’ll call BS on this - are you actively selling it to buy things online? And you buying BTC when you have spare money in checking accounts? Is your turnover like 10-20%? I’m guessing you’re a buy and hold person with BTC, which makes you an investor in it.

I've accepted payments for a holiday rental via Bitcoin, some of which I've used to purchase other items.

I'll admit that I do buy bitcoin for use as currency. It is still the easiest way to remain pseudonymous digitally. To me it's similar to gold. Most people use it as an investment vehicle, some use it because it's an efficient way to store value that is hard to track.

I used to buy things with bitcoin, but every time I have regretted it. It would've been better to use cash and keep holding.

> t buy things in crypto only because of the reporting burden.

There's an easy solution to that problem: spend BTC when you buy things, and then every week-end, buy it back to get rid of whatever monkey money (fiat) people gave you (salary,payments,etc...)

That seems like a lot of work, but it's easy to automate.

And if enough people do this, this will strengthen the BTC economy and weaken fiat, so you can feel good about yourself when you go to bed.