Quote from: pooya87 on Today at 03:18:07 AM

Bitcoin was made to be a currency not an asset that you trade on some exchange whether centralized or otherwise.

And Coca-Cola was intended as a patent medicine, but now it's considered a temperance drink.

What I want to say is that, because Satoshi saw it as a currency, it doesn't mean that everyone should too. If you ask me, I'd answer you that it can't work as a medium of exchange the way you imagine it, whether the majority of the people saw it as it's said or not. I'll omit the fees, let's just think about it ethically.

It's deflationary. If we agree that the greatest currency is the one that circulates the most on a capitalism, then Bitcoin is the worst one. Not sure why you haven't understood it, or if you don't want to, but it just seems odd to me that there are, indeed, people who still believe on the so-called “global adoption” of Bitcoin as a currency.

You can use it as a currency, if it satisfies you, but I think that it'd be advisable to give a childish example:

(In the system below, 100 fresh bitcoins are brought into circulation every day.)

Let's assume that once upon a time, on an island, there were 100 people with 100 mushrooms in total and each one of them had 10 bitcoins, willing to use it as a currency. This means that each mushroom costs 10 BTC since there are 1000 BTC in total. But, hey, the next day, there are 1000 newcomers bringing 1000 mushrooms and they are also willing to use Bitcoin as a currency. But, unfortunately, there are only 1100 bitcoins in circulation which means that each mushroom now costs 1.1 BTC. Same thing would happen if that little community gained 10,000 new mushroom-farmers the next day. Every mushroom would cost 0.12 BTC.

So, the more newcomers, the more my money's value. Would it be beneficial to pay with Bitcoin? No, because next year, I may be able to buy more things than today with the same amount. It turns out that, phenomenally, it's better as a store of value or as a long-term investment.

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on Today at 07:36:36 AM

Our only option left is to improve the fungibility of bitcoin at a protocol level.

This isn't going to happen. I think Satoshi was clear in the whitepaper that all the transactions must be publicly announced. Making such big change would censor it and devalue it. If you don't like Bitcoin the way it is, then use a different cryptocurrency. I have used to see Bitcoin as a “religion”, but I shouldn't. Truth be told, there are far better cryptocurrencies than Bitcoin for privacy, anonymity and decentralization if you want to use them as mediums of exchange. First one that comes in mind, Monero.