It's not that I've never been able to get things to work.
I've never been able to achieve long-term consistency with anything just working.
Phoenix was the closest I came, but it requires Google Play Services to work in the background.
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Cash works every time. Very low tech. I don’t see the point of replacing it. Just keep min amount for spending and don’t save in it.
Sure, but I was more focused on the concept that we should be spending Bitcoin lest it die. I buy some of the arguments. My point really is that telling everyone they should be doing it now is setting many up for failure from what I can see. The only tools worth a shit right now are hardly better philosophically than my bank account that's working (or cash as you mentioned).
i bought a painting from an artist here on nostr last week :) i get paid via an onchain payment and i don't spend it precisely until i make a payment via my xapo card
there's a bit of a chicken and egg situation in most places with paying for stuff directly in bitcoin, unfortunately, but i do it when i can