&gt; You&#x27;ve exposed your father to losses without explaining to him that BTC is in fact not USD and USD&#x2F;BTC is a floating exchange rate.<p>You are assuming that both of us were not aware of that. We both were and were interested in trying something new. But it is still a reality of using Bitcoin when the entire transaction is not in bitcoin.<p>Anyway, the larger point remains: there are some transaction that bitcoin is ill suited for and PayPal is great for. Sending money to people is one of the core features of PayPal that works like a breeze whereas buying and selling a different currency just to send money makes little sense.