Next month marks the 11th anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day, the first recorded instance of an item purchased with cryptocurrency. Over the following decade we've seen an absolute explosion in both interest and investment into the digital currency space. Despite this, however, we've seen comparatively few actual instances of it being used as a day-to-day money. Of course, there are exceptions. I've been living un-banked off of crypto since 2016. But the fact that people still disbelieve me when I tell them this is a sign that “peer-to-peer electronic cash system” is still very much more a theoretical concept than a present-day reality.