Quote from: Upgrade00 on Today at 05:45:06 PM

I would actually say the opposite; there are more ways to spend bitcoin now as a currency now than there was ten or so years ago due to emergence of more merchants and projects such as lightening network.

We are not talking about the number of payment methods, but about the current impact of using cryptocurrency as a means of payment on the rise in the price of bitcoin. I argue that he is the minimum and main trigger of growth is a reduction in circulating supply and the use of bitcoin as an investment asset, and all this news that another company has begun to accept bitcoin as payment stimulates investing in bitcoin. Recently, a lot of companies began to accept bitcoin as a means of payment, but are you sure that there is a boom among users to use bitcoin as a currency, and not as an investment asset?

Quote from: Upgrade00 on Today at 05:45:06 PM

So many factors affect the volatility of bitcoin, that it would be impossible to pinpoint just one, but the most salient imo, should be the features it was built with, which attracts companies and individuals.

The main factors of bitcoin volatility were and remain speculators, and only speculators. Volatility has increased thanks to the emergence of bitcoin derivatives and the use of leverage. Check out all the latest Bitcoin market crash reports. Do you know when bitcoin crashes? When leverage use gets prohibitively high. While Bitcoin remains popular on exchanges, including derivatives exchanges, we will see high volatility in Bitcoin. The market is manipulative and the whales, along with the exchanges, take advantage of it.