- merchants may offer incentives to customers to use this payment method as it saves them credit card processing fees - some customers might enjoy the ideological appeal of sticking it to the credit card companies (I dunno, run a No Kings day promo) - yes, people who understand bitcoin but don't want to pay with it - other ideas that you and I haven't come up with yet because that's how progress works - in layers, as new raw materials for creativity are added, and its always a good thing to have more options for future entrepreneurs (have some humility; do you think you and I have literally all the ideas forever?) I don't know what the addressable market is, but I do know that each of those bullets increases it, anything more than "zero" is a net positive for ME, and Square/CashApp must have an estimate that is a **lot** more than "zero" in order to have a net positive for THEM. simply, i see no way to be anything but optimistic about this development. Unless something like "super easy UX for non-totally-pure-bitcoin use cases will actually harm pure bitcoin adoption". I am somewhat sympathetic to that angle, but I don't see you going that direction here so I'm leaving it out.

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Also, many customers _do_ pay fees, because many merchants build in the credit card fee into their prices. Just because they aren't aware of the fee doesn't mean they wouldn't enjoy the lower price if they choose a better payment rail.