// Hacker Noon · 26 April 2026

Living on Crypto Was Never the Hard Part (We Just Overcomplicated It)

Crypto won the investment game but fumbled spending. Merchant adoption stalled, crypto cards are unreliable, and the best way to actually spend crypto in 2026 turned out to be the most boring payment method on the planet — gift cards.

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