I posted a similar explanation on another thread, and I think it applies to this one...
Take, for example, people who live in countries where currency there is very volatile who keep their wealth in an offshore account, and transfer only the money they need in their sovereign currency that day or even minutes before a purchase. You can also imagine having a credit card that draws from an investment account, wherein your wealth is stored in whatever instrument you want and everything will be handled for you behind the scenes vis a vie the exchange rates.
With credit cards and the Internet, one can imagine a the "UI" for your money always being displayed in some measure of wealth you can understand, e.g. US dollars for instance (and yes, this is exactly what we're doing at Haypenny with the
USDE mechanism).
Most people aren't able to abstract a difference between their payment mechanism, their wealth store, and their measurement mechanism ("how much does it really cost me?"), but this is exactly what you need to do in order to understand today's globalized world of finance.
And in this world, Bitcoin and cryptos are speculation instruments, not payment mechanisms. Currency that can viably be used for payment e.g. US dollars or (eventually) Haypenny currencies are all both investments and payment mechanisms. In other words, if you hold Euros, you are essentially investing in Euros, and you can also broadly make payments in directly Euros, etc.
So in summary, there are three different things an instrument can give you:
1. A means of speculation, e.g. an investment you surmise will go up in value.
2. A means of transacting with others ubiquitously.
3. A means of understanding the value, in your own terms, of a given transaction (e.g. converting it to USD or whatever your "native" currency is that your own brain to "keep score").
Bitcoin and cryptos do #1 only, practically speaking.
Haypenny does #1 and #2 (and it's UI allows you to do #3 in USD specifically).
Traditional currencies do all three.
So if you understand that, the right answer to this thread's question is:
Use Bitcoin as an investment, and convert it to whatever currency your landlord requests each month. There's no advantage in transacting with them directly in Bitcoin, and lots of disadvantages e.g. slow, expensive, and inconvenient.