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Yeah it would be cool if more brick and mortar businesses accepted it. For now there’s https://cakepay.com/cards/. It’s not that crazy to have to get a gift card as an intermediary. Think about it like a debit card so you can spend from your bank account. Would it be convenient if you can spend straight from your bank(Monero wallet)—yes that is ideal, but it’s not insane to need a single intermediary to get from your “bank” to the payment. I like to think about how impressive it is that Monero has all this adoption when it is totally optional. A hundred years ago you would sound crazy if you said that a random group of people, with little power—not a country— could start a currency that is not particularly easy to get started with and it would become a staple with its own economic, thousands of businesses accepting, and many consumers preferring it. It took the US a long and perilous road to become a stable currency. There wasn’t a central bank for a while and state banks all had different looking bills that they made themselves. It was mayhem, there were countless bank runs, panics, and depressions. People lost their savings, the economy crashed. It has been almost 250 years since the USA was created and there was even a giant recession in 2008. Clearly, the US took a while to learn how to manage their currency, and yet Monero is just 12 years old and has had no hyperinflation, huge innovations in cryptography and privacy, extremely secure, convenient, etc. Here’s a good summary of history of money problems in the usa - Brave Search .