if they can control the on/off ramps, seems like Bitcoin would be perfect.

Cause they can’t control it. No single entity can.

People living on a bitcoin standard don’t need on/off ramps. That’s why we need more circular economies.

If you wanna experience living on a bitcoin standard, go spend some time in Uvita in Costa Rica. You can stay at @Flordebambu. They accept bitcoin. Tons of restaurants accept bitcoin there. Also, almost everyone at the farmers market accepts bitcoin and the farmers market is twice a week.

sounds extremely cool unfortunately Bitcoin is still primarily an investment vehicle id love it if all that just went away and we just had organic usage like you describe

I highly recommend going to spend some time in Uvita in Costa Rica, Bitcoin Beach and Berlin in El Salvador, and Bitcoin Lake in Guatemala. I’d say primary use case is p2p payments in those places. It’s friggen awesome.

if I didnt have responsibilities I'd love to fuck off to Costa Rica 😀