Bitcoin is all it is. A coin. Not a whole lot of purpose. You are totally correct. And to boot. It's a coin that you can't really go out and spend anywhere really.
There was one big initial rush into it, now it will slow down a heck of a lot. It's really hard to break it down to use for every day purchases.

Wait a minute... I could have sworn... that.. I've seen that somewhere before....



Oh.
Gold. That's right.