IMO, bitcoin currently has no noticeable benefits for common users. However, there are small, moderate and big benefits for some categories of users:
-You bank won't be able to spy on you or freeze your account. Huge benefit for black and gray market traders.
-You can receive bitcoins just as easy as send them. Moderate benefit for owners of small internet shops.
-You bitcoins aren't damaged by inflation. Moderate benefit for Argentinians, small benefit for 1-st world users after the third halving.
After the second halving, July next year, bitcoin inflation will become about 4%. Which is in about the same as US dollar's. Four years later it will drop below 2%, so it will be some small benefit for most of user. However, this small benefit, it is nothing like email-vs-snailmail difference, which gave boost to Internet. To get mass bitcoin adoption we need some killer app, some killer user case which would give some real and noticeable benefit to most of common users. We don't have it so far.
-You bank won't be able to spy on you or freeze your account. Huge benefit for black and gray market traders.
-You can receive bitcoins just as easy as send them. Moderate benefit for owners of small internet shops.
-You bitcoins aren't damaged by inflation. Moderate benefit for Argentinians, small benefit for 1-st world users after the third halving.
After the second halving, July next year, bitcoin inflation will become about 4%. Which is in about the same as US dollar's. Four years later it will drop below 2%, so it will be some small benefit for most of user. However, this small benefit, it is nothing like email-vs-snailmail difference, which gave boost to Internet. To get mass bitcoin adoption we need some killer app, some killer user case which would give some real and noticeable benefit to most of common users. We don't have it so far.