&gt; You just don&#x27;t do USD-&gt;USD transfers with BTC.<p>But that&#x27;s primarily what I use PayPal for: sending money to family and friends. Paying for my share of dinner, or concert tickets in a group buy, that kind of thing. I will occasionally buy things using PayPal (usually eBay stuff), but mostly, it&#x27;s simply a money transfer mechanism.<p>For that, PayPal is perfect and BTC is overkill. Parent said &quot;You obviously have never used Bitcoin.&quot; I have. For this, it&#x27;s a pain whereas PayPal is flawless ever time.<p>&gt; Conversion USD-&gt;BTC and BTC-&gt;USD is hard simply because banking system is trying to make it hard.<p>But is it really that much harder than any other currency exchange? Off the top of my head, I don&#x27;t even know how I would buy, sell or change Euro to USD without physically going to the bank.<p>&gt; Have you tried to use BTC to do business with Amish? Or any other made-up situations where you force BTC on people who don&#x27;t know how it works or have no business using it?<p>See, it&#x27;s this type of attitude that makes people groan when talking to bitcoin advocates. You&#x27;re calling a situation that I have <i>personally encountered</i> and provided a detailed accounting of to back up my assertion &quot;made-up&quot; and comparing me and my family to Amish?<p>Come down off your high horse, dude.