Quote from: champions on February 26, 2025, 11:10:28 AM

Quote from: Cryptohygenic on February 22, 2025, 09:24:31 PM

Quote from: RTV1535 on February 22, 2025, 05:53:08 PM

BTC People see Bitcoin as an asset, like gold or stocks. This is very disappointing because in order for Bitcoin to become a global currency and for banks and governments to be excluded from its control, it should be used as money for transactions and buying and selling, not just as something to buy, hold, and sell when its price goes up. The current view of Bitcoin is far from Satoshi Nakamoto's original goal.

Satoshi did not only foster the potential value for bitcoin on payment for an asset view. Let me tell you Op, the attractiveness of bitcoin that has brought it this massive adoption so far is the potential values that users can either trade or invest on it for profits. Exempt this bitcoin would be as common as the traditional currencies. No one will ever care of it is decentralized or digitalized but that profitable value is it main point of attraction but meanwhile using it for payments as subjected has not been ignored rather there are less payment adoptors than income adoptors.

I agree with you. The real attraction of Bitcoin is its value growth and investment potential. It is not only created as a medium of exchange, but people buy or trade it mainly for profit. If Bitcoin didn't go up in price, it would be like a normal currency and no one would care. Although it is possible to use it for transactions, very few people actually accept it as payment, as most people see it only as an investment opportunity.

You are right the reason people invest in Bitcoin is so they can make profit from it later in the future if not for the profit no one will be investing in it because people invest only on something they know they can get profit from but Bitcoin is not only used for investment purposes just like you said Bitcoin is also used for transactions some countries has declared Bitcoin as a Legal tender and when you go to the mall or supermarket you can pay with Bitcoin after buying things, the reason why other countries have not adopted this is because they feel Bitcoin is working against there economy some countries has fought Bitcoin but is impossible to remove Bitcoin because Bitcoin has no CEO and is a decentralized coin since the government can't control the finance of people like they do in Banks they are not happy Bitcoin gives you the opportunity to control your own money and your money is more save in Bitcoin than in bank no matter the the situation your money is always save in Bitcoin and this is one reason some set of people invest in Bitcoin so is not entirely for profit making there are many reasons people invest in Bitcoin but mostly is for profit making.