I don't said i live on a Monero standard, we are not yet ready to live neither in a world of bitcoin standard or monero standard, for that we need to push to have more businesses accept the coins directly and have a proper circular economy. My standard is cash for what i can't buy with monero and everything i can buy with monero i use it. But yeah buying gift cards for some services is the only option, the thing that i clearly think is nonsense and i refuse to use is banking services that are wolves at a sheeps skin. They are building the systems that will makes us trapped, and more vulnerable to state agents, system and censorship that all of us oppose. You are seeing now coinbase for exemple applying a social credit to Bitcoin L1, sooner or later you will see fractional reserve banking with Bitcoin and ecash is the most probable tool they will use for sure for that. They are testing it in Central banks (words from an interview of calle). PS: Take time to read Bitcoin Hijacked of Roger Ver if you want to see the other side, don't just eat Bitcoin propaganda. (The system is really good at selling ideas that go against the public interest like is shinny gold, and many of influencers even here are on some big names payroll)

I get what you are saying. But even cash is a federal issued debt note printed by banks. This transition may come to fruition at the tail end of our lives, hopefully sooner. Far fewer people use Monero than bitcoin at the moment. And if a merchant accepted monero I'd use it for goods and services as well. I recently got the monero standard to read. But you have to be pragmatic, don't cut your nose off to spite the banks. I believe we can take steps toward the real bitcoin (or monero standard.) And I agree, the banks and institutions are in the process of attempting to box bitcoin into their framework of control. I don't think countries should be buying it. That's going just going to allow them to do what they have already been doing at a larger scale. What would be the equivalent of lightning in monero? Because the tps for its base layer is slow 🐌. Merchants need more speed; which is what lightning offers on bitcoin.

You ask your landlord? You ask each and every one that you have a business relation with. It's not that hard. It just takes time.