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.