I saw this post in reddit and I completely agree with the OP: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/9z0k1v/unpopular_opinion_those_who_use_bitcoin_to_buy/
"I’m not the first person to say this and I won’t be the last, treating bitcoin as an investment and leaving it in a wallet for years at a time does nothing for the coin or the community. As much as it puts a bad taste in congressional mouths and casts a dark shadow on bitcoin, people who use it to buy stuff on the dark net are using bitcoin for its intended purposes

You know, as a currency?"

I think I've been saying this for so long now. Until the time comes that bitcoin is used as a currency, it's never going to be stable. If you don’t spend it, you are not going to create demand, and if you don’t create demand, might as well stop mining it.