Storing of Bitcoins is against Bitcoin.
No one will offer services for Bitcoin.
Spend Your Bitcoins.
It is a vicious circle of sorts
You can't spend your bitcoins (apart from gambling them away) until there are enough merchants ready to accept them. But merchants won't accept bitcoins unless there is enough demand for their merchandise being paid for with bitcoins. Some people say that the merchants won't start accepting Bitcoin en masse till its price stabilizes a little, and there is certainly a grain of truth in this claim. But how the price will ever stabilize if people are using Bitcoin mainly for speculation since they basically have only two options available to them, i.e. either to hoard bitcoins or trade them? Thus we are volens-nolens back to square one
Well put. Storing bitcoins doesn't necessarily go against bitcoin. By buying and storing bitcoin you've done more to support it than not having bought any at all! Of course where the opportunity arises you should definitely spend your bitcoin to support the shops that do accept them, but until then storing isn't a bad thing.
Indeed, it is not against bitcoin!
And how can it possibly be if Bitcoin price is rising thanks to people not selling their coins? As to me, this is one of the most simple metric which can be used to gauge Bitcoin performance over time. Having said that, though, the price itself can be utterly misleading. For example, if an individual or a small group of people buy a few satoshi for a price of 1 satoshi per 1 dollar, does it mean that the price equals 1M dollars per bitcoin? I guess it doesn't. On the other hand, with higher price comes higher volatility (even in relative terms), which we all witnessed just yesterday and well into today. I don't think that merchants would be happy with such huge price swings