promote commercially?
bitcoin is not a slice of cheese or a toy car.. its a currency
Excuse me if I'm confusing you with someone else
Though this is hardly the case since it must have been you after all who had been proposing recently an idea of free competition between currencies for their users. But where there is competition, there should necessarily be aggressive marketing and intrusive promoting, right? Otherwise, how people would learn about a deisik coin and a franky coin? Oh, wait, you may not want to advertise your coin at all since it is so good and shiny that it doesn't even need users altogether!
no. you have it backwards.
i am 100% bitcoin. i hate altcoins. but i can atleast see the bigger picture.
Oh, really? How about this then:
I don't think it always plays a positive role
If everyone tried to use his own money, there simply wouldn't be any money at all since the concept of money assumes that it is used and recognized by at least a group of people, each member of which accepts what is used as money as a means of payment. So, in this very respect (please mind it when replying), it could be said with absolute certainty that the greater number of people recognize something as a money token, the better it will work as money. In other words, there is no turning-point or some optimal value on this function
im not saying there will be 7billion different currencies. like a deisik coin and a franky coin. but just having one currency to cover everyone also have its negatives too
advertising bitcoin to billions now will bottleneck it. people will scream blue murder at the headaches of trying to get it. and when they finally do, they realise the bottleneck is causing them issues when trying to use bitcoin.
EG fee war
EG transaction limit
EG lack of diverse places to buy bitcoin without life history needed
These are minor, technical issues. And I know about them, and, in fact, I felt them with my own skin. It is pitiful and pathetic that Bitcoin has such problems at all when it already went through hell. It is beyond my understanding how people which are supposed to be way above average in their reasoning (I refer to developers) are fighting like little school-girls about block size and similar issues when there are thousands of transactions being jammed. Though I tend to agree with you that until these bottlenecks are removed, further Bitcoin adoption doesn't make much sense since it will only cause utter frustration and disappointment...
But that doesn't take anything from the "bigger picture"