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There was a sketchy looking file sharing website where someone had posted some incredibly hard to find audio tracks that I really wanted, but the website required a subscription. Paying with a cc meant automatically-recurring payments, but I paid with bitcoin, got my files, and knew the website couldn’t get any money from me after that.

There are hardly any retailers accepting it in the US. Wonder how it is in El Salvador, since they made BTC legal tender.

In most of the places it’s trivial to exchange crypto for local currency in p2p fashion, often for cash.