I have not read bitcoin's whitepaper but from the little understanding I have I think bitcoin was developed to be use as a mode of payment for goods and services? It was for a transactionary purposes and not as the way we are using it now as a way of making profits by buy them and hold or sell Them whenever we think it has appreciated in pricing!
I believe for bitcoin to grow it purposes must be well explain to the populace as they are the one that needs it in transactions and that is why the more people that know about it an it primarily uses of p2p the better bitcoin become. We must promote it with the aim of bringing more people especially business people to start adopting bitcoin for they business. Bitcoin should also be stable in pricing because it will be very difficult for retailers and wholesalers business to use it if it is unstable.
Finally I will like to get your opinion on this as this will help the mind of many of us here about this great technologies.
Now this is the case, in the case of countries with high inflation, much more is applied.
Not only are they used for goods and services, many times in my profession they have offered me bitcoin and altcoins as a means of payment, which I like, because when analyzing the price of bitcoin today it is low compared in some years, which it can be achieved in terms of price.
And people often do not have cash, they prefer the convenience of doing it digitally and with a transaction that is quick and that in a matter of minutes they will have the funds in their wallet.
In some commercial stores where they sell clothes and household items, they also use Bitcoin as a payment option, little by little this culture will become generalized. In fact, the main reason of the whitepaper is to create a totally decentralized economy where governments or third parties can not intervene, and according to many books focused on cryptocurrency, they emphasize that the world economy will be heading little by little towards this trend.