I hear from many sources that btc is used for trading much more than it is for goods and services; doesn't that make it an asset ??
and is that necessarily a bad thing ?? and what can we do about it as a community ??
If i am think Bitcoin has a currency-asset duality in nature. Bitcoin is a currency because it is made as it i and Bitcoin is an asset because it behaves that way. I believe that Bitcoin is not intentionally made to behave like an asset since Satoshi designed Bitcoin as a "digital cash". However, because of decentralization and volatility, it is inevitable to make Bitcoin behave like an asset more than like a currency. Behaving an asset is not a bad thing but it might hinder Bitcoin from going mainstream. We cannot fully eliminate the nature of Being an asset in Bitcoin but we can reduce that by using it like fiat and do not hold.