Are you guys currently using bitcoin to make payments or making purchases with bitcoin?
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Both. Since here in our country, using Bitcoin for such payments-especially locally is not that so popular, so most of the uses of my Bitcoins are in online services or products such as online shopping (but this is not directly Bitcoin, It's just swapping your Bitcoin to our fiat and mark as paid the order directly).
Speaking of investment, somewhat like that too. Since I hodl most of my Bitcoin from 2017 and plan to hodl it for the long term.
This is the reason why so many citizens failed to understand the real meaning and purpose of bitcoin into the ecosystem, they may find it hard to understand the concept that's why they feel reluctant when it comes to bitcoin investment, in my country, so many people are still scared of bitcoin and discribing bitcoin as a scam things, a situation whereby newbies sees the usage of bitcoin as a means of payments in various sectors around the region will justify to be relevant assets.