1. Become a pricing anchor with dual functions of virtual currency and virtual commodities in the virtual world, corresponding to the role of gold in current legal tender;
2. An asset with its own return and risk characteristics that may become the asset allocation of institutional investors and hedge against inflation or dollar risks;
3. Become an intermediary for cross-border and cross-border transactions of large-value commodities, because this type of transaction traditionally relies on banks, the transaction time is relatively long, and the cost is relatively high.
The future development of Bitcoin will be closely related to the regulatory attitudes and the development of legal digital currencies of central banks in various countries. In fact, Bitcoin supporters' criticism of the traditional currency system can be solved by legal digital currency and further optimize the existing currency system.