Keep some and spend some. That should be our motto here to make bitcoin more inviting to everyone. Merchants or even investors. Even those online shops would open up a bitcoin paying method if they would see it could really be used as transaction method.
Yeah we can see higher number of merchants accepting bitcoins only if they see descent traffic on their shops from the people who are willing to spend their bitcoins, if no one will prefer to spend them then I don't think we will find many shops where we can use bitcoins for making purchases and more shops will attract more people to start knowing bitcoins.