Yeah I agree that's actually a really big problem in my country also there are basically no local or online stores where we can buy using bitcoins luckily I found a few traders on local bitcoin buying at a higher rate. And normally we don't see any stores which accept gold for making payments so it kind of makes sense.
Yeah, for us it's better to keep our coins or exchange them to our fiat money. I have the same situation that we only have methods to pay online or turn Bitcoin in to our currency by exchanges. Better to wait for it, but in some countries this process can be so long as in my country
In our country there are only few shops who accepts bitcoin but to exchange bitcoin to fiat is very easy, I can actually have it in less than five minute and withdraw my funds directly to an ATM. That was really awesome and I hope our local exchange sites will upgrade more for better experience.
In addition, I can pay bills and even purchase with some participating partners of our exchange sites using my bitcoin and for me that is already some improvement that was not realize in the past.
In my country we dont have any shops which gives you chance to purchase something with bitcoin, and not a lot of exchange's at all.Maybe if you directly withdraw to your debit card and that's it. But no ATM machines, where we can easily sell or buy bitcoin, only at our capital city we have those machines, they are small against this big ones like gaming machines, but i think we have a lot of moments we could upgrade, to make this eco system more better.
Small bussiness not implemented by goverment to give us any experience of using the bitcoin, they want to close other payment systems, not to give for people other oportunities to use, recive or withdraw other funds