BTC have monetary value measurement means, circulation, storage method, payment method, and the world monetary five major functions, has been widely accepted in the Internet, has the character of scarcity, and unforgeable, as natural as gold and silver is currency.
Just because the vast majority of people is difficult to understand the mechanism of its delicate design, because it has broken the central bank to monopoly on the currency issue in one hundred, because it is at the beginning of the birth by hackers and criminals use experience, let people don't want to admit this.
It is believed that in the near future, BTC will become the mainstream of the Internet, and people will use BTC to conduct anonymous and cross-border transactions through various innovative applications, which is convenient and safe.
Not really, not if the scaling problem isn't fixed, than bitcoin will always stay as a investment, back in December the amount of traffic that the network has witnessed, and the amount of transactions that were stuck at the time, alongside the miner fees that reached crazy numbers, made the micro transactions with bitcoin impossible which have lead to the price drop, and if the network can't handle that amount of transactions, than how do we expect it to be used as a payment method in our daily lives.