And it's really amazing how far we've come with bitcoin, though some of us expected more in a decade of its existence, for me I'd say I'm pretty impressed coming from a relatively unknown project that only existed in geeky forums for over a year before circulating towards many different channels. The rest is history from there.


I'd be lying if I say I am doing it all for the tech. Of course, holding my coins somewhat gives me profit over time and that's what I do most of the time to make sure that I'm financially secured when the time comes. This is not the only investment that I have and I do have stocks built up, so money is the main motivation why I hold.


More places to spend my coins most likely, knowing that some countries are already trying to shift over to cryptocurrencies, why not make it so that even small merchants are accepting it? In the short-term future, this is not possible considering the high volatility of bitcoin's "price" to fiat. Though I believe that once we shifted to cryptocurrencies, merchants would also follow suit knowing that the payment they are accepting is legal and accepted even by the governments.



Same as yours, centralization. Knowing how easy and reliable it is to store data on the blockchain, it's no surprise that the governments and some private institutions would like to use it for the said purpose of pooling data and using it for whatever reason they might have.