The chicken and egg problem is in your last sentence. If its not a good store of value to begin with, I wouldnt accept it as payment for my goods and services. So it needs to bootstrap by doing a bit of both increasingly better over time. Not technically, but 'better over time' in terms of network...

I'm looking for ways to earn money with Bitcoin from the start, so I can get out of this terrible fiat-mining job. I need to get it done as quickly as possible.

Back in the day, I collected the bitcoins from faucets, they were practically worthless. And being a means of exchange first, I didn't think to hold onto some, I spent everything I had collected on drugs when it was a few hundred dollars a coin. I was young, trying to impress my friends, and noth...

And the pizza prize was denominated in usd and paid with a cc