When your just store your Money in gold, bitcoin or under your bed, you are effectively taking out all that power to actively create wealth from the economy, and you are actually producing an economic slowdown. You just become an economic parasite that not only do not contribute to economy, but benefit from the work, intelligence and the willingness to take risk of all the others that are making your country grow and be a better place to live, while doing nothing.

Controlled and not artificially manipulated inflation is a socially good think, because it damages the hoarders that don't produce nothing, and obliges them to lend, invest or use their money if they don't want to see  it slowly disappear. Deflation is socially bad because it produces just the opposite.

What bitcoin should have done for the economy is to eliminate credit card processors, the banks and the political and economical barriers and at the some time protect you from artificial inflation. All that money that otherwise would end making the rich richer, would be injected to the social economy, accelerating wealth creation and distribution. That's the VALUE I thought bitcoin had, and that's why I adopted it.