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 Are there better ways to pay for utilities or a beer in bit coin?  
 sure. normal lightning tx. Via offline NFC cards (like eg by bold). Via bills (like eg icynote) or opendime. Via ecash. Via liquid. 

etc... 
 Your utility provider accepts these? Isn't bold kyc?  
 I believe so. Never used them with bold's app.

But you can setup these cards on your own ln node. Completly uncustodial. Lnbits has many features suporting it.

You can also get these cards from the company: plebtag. They even have glowing laser eyes (LED's charged by NFC). 
 You're saying your utility provider accepts bitcoin then? Or they convert to usd?  
 The store accepts Bitcoin. 

What they convert it to is their business - Idc. 
 What store? If you're arguing that using bitcoin to pay your utility provider is easy because you have 1 of the few whole do, that isn't actually advice it's luck that you're in a jurisdiction that does it.  
 Supporting stores that accept Bitcoin is the relevant point.

https://btcmap.org/map#3/0.00000/0.00000 
 Examples how to do it directly using Bitcoin wallets
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/bitcoin-lightning-irl-examples
and how to pay utilities with bitcoin
https://darth-coin.github.io/beginner/pay-with-bitcoin-en.html