Can you even buy anything with Bitcoin, because I don't think I've ever heard of a store or businesses that excepts it as payment.
Oh yeah, lots actually.
Word of warning: there's a transaction fee that you'll have to add to every purchase if you want the miners to actually count your purchase at all. The current fee appears to be $17.58 equivalent, so it's not particularly cost-effective for the things you'd want to buy on a daily basis.
From my understanding the main real-world use of Bitcoin is as an untraceable digital currency, which lends itself extremely well to buying drugs and other illegal stuff via the dark net or for moving money around since its impossible for the cops/financial people to trace it.
Some other stuff and stores do accept bitcoin, but as a normal currency it kind of sucks compared to other stuff so there isn't any real reason you would want to use it over a regular currency/payment processor as long as you aren't breaking any laws.
No, Bitcoin absolutely
sucks for privacy. Think of it this way: the blockchain is entirely public. You can look at every transaction ever made with Bitcoin, and there's nothing to stop you from tracing anyone's transactions. Go on, say,
Bitcoin Explorer, and there's a list of the latest transactions right then and there. You want a visual one?
Here you go! Here's a video in which someone traces a transaction. Sure, there's things like Bitcoin mixers, in which... it's money laundering by mixing around "dirty" and "clean" money, I'm not gonna hide it, but it's just a matter of time until someone figures out where it went. It's
less private than using a credit card.
Bitcoin is the opposite of a privacy-oriented currency. The one criminals actually want would be Monero (XMR), since that one obfuscates the entire public ledger, as well as the wallet addresses. The IRS has a bounty of up to $625,000 to "contractors who can trace transactions or provide statistical probabilities that connect transaction data to specific users", i.e. for contractors who can make it traceable.
LINUS TECH TIPS MENTIONS DWARF FORTRESS.
As part of them analyzing the Anandtech review of the i7-11700K, yes. Honestly, Linus' take on world sizes, "Dwarf Fortress, okay, is best played at Medium- and Large-sized worlds. (...) If you're playing Dwarf Fortress, in a Small world, you're a big piece of s**t. You're garbage. You're human f**king garbage.", he's not wrong. Unless your hardware is slow or you're going for long histories, why would you even go for small anyway?