Yes bitcoin even have a future because it has a greater demand on the buy and sell today and even though it wasn't that fast rising, but still it recovered from sudden drop of its price lately. The better future is here specially in the profit that we must be earning from the investments that we are putting to risk and sometimes very exciting and in thrill.
Current Bitcoin's price only indicates that investors believe that in future bitcoin's price will be higher, so they will sell it with profit. What it means that bitcoin's value today is mostly speculative. The question of this thread is whether or not Bitcoin will become a widely used currency, and the answer is very unclear in my opinion. Every government will strongly oppose Bitcoin, since it will take the monetary power away from them, also Bitcoin will need to solve lots of technical issues. And the last problem is "marketing", someone has to convince the others to start using Bitcoin, you can't expect people to abandon fiat money that they have been using for all their lives just because they will read some article about Bitcoin. And there will be a lot of fearmongering from banks and governments, like we see today, that bitcoin is unsafe, it's money for criminals, etc.
Yeah , you are right , currently small increase in the price making the investment more attractive toward bitcoin and it's profit to invest . But it is not telling us that it is the future of bitcoin .
Actually in my opinion in bitcoin we need to change some rules to use , I mean we need to legalise the Bitcoin more . Because the future of the Bitcoin is not much good because of the questions against the bitcoin network and it's use in gambling and carder world .
Well here we are the neat and clean user of the Bitcoin , so we should always think positive Ang good about the bitcoin .
Yes, legalization of bitcoin is the key, but it will be very hard to achieve.
There is no owner of bitcoin, no control, it's decentralized system etc.
So, if government or financial institutions can't control bitcoin network, transactions, check identity of users etc. it's very hard to convince them to legalize bitcoin.
I think, the best we can hope is that governments and other authorities accepts bitcoin as alternative way of payment or alternative currency.
I don't believe in full legalization or acceptance.
We also need somebody who will take legal responsibility for such task.