> You can’t pay your electric bill in crypto currency.
I’m from Hanover, Germany and was surprised to see that since September 2016 my electric/gas/water company added a QR code to their bills to easily pay bills with Bitcoin [1] (They have super informative bills with easy to read charts as well). They even have service center support staff that will help you if you don’t know how to get/use bitcoin. There were (haven’t checked in a while) multiple listings for flats (we Germans tend to rent) that offered payment in bitcoin a year back and multiple little bars and cafes also offered payment with Bitcoin. I’m pretty sure I could live by doing >80% of all my outgoing payments in Bitcoin (if it weren’t for the high tx fees).
I paid my electric bill ($2400/mo) in BTC in 2014 at the first bubble for a while because I was runninga 13 terrahash mine from my spare bedroom. I used a lot of weird methods to do it. My friend did it once using this service where someone would pay your bill and the BTC would be held in escrow. The card used was fraudulent and now he has to pay his electric bill in cash for his home and business.
You definitely CAN pay your bill in BTC, it's just harder than most people want to mess with.
I’m from Hanover, Germany and was surprised to see that since September 2016 my electric/gas/water company added a QR code to their bills to easily pay bills with Bitcoin [1] (They have super informative bills with easy to read charts as well). They even have service center support staff that will help you if you don’t know how to get/use bitcoin. There were (haven’t checked in a while) multiple listings for flats (we Germans tend to rent) that offered payment in bitcoin a year back and multiple little bars and cafes also offered payment with Bitcoin. I’m pretty sure I could live by doing >80% of all my outgoing payments in Bitcoin (if it weren’t for the high tx fees).
[1] - https://blog.energybrainpool.com/en/german-regional-utility-...