Look I know we are a free community, but come on don't you think the price has become so volatile during the past few months just because people started using it as a form of investment. I've seen people buy in low, in hopes of selling it at high, and that's basically pump and dump.
Bitcoin wasn't created to make us rich over night but was created so we could have control over our money and not the bankers. It was created so we could be free, so there won't be any borders telling us we are different from them so we can't trade with them. To be united, but all I see are people only talking about how much profit they've made, not about how it can help people that don't have access to banks(they do but it's a minority).
We live in a society where we take everything for granted, just like we've taken Bitcoin for granted. We don't deserve it. The ones that deserve it don't have access to it.
At the end of the day we become savages and only think about the profit not the good that it can do for us, instead of making us rich.
Yes, I was introduced to it because of the investment, but I was a fool at that time, I couldn't see the bigger picture.
We are a community created for the people, by the people.
(P.S. If you don't see Bitcoin as investment, then be proud of it, and hope it can help us be united, for it's all that we have left against them)
I know you are right. Bitcoin was not only created for investment but also for payments and for making simple transactions. However, this will still take some time to effect. So many people have bitcoins that they want to use for payment for goods and services but do not see those that will accept bitcoin as a means of payment. This shows that not so many people accept bitcoin as a means of payment for their goods and services.
For people to start using bitcoin as a means of payment, then there must be people to receive them. Although, some major online shopping sites accept bitcoin accept bitcoin, it still cannot provide services which should be paid with bitcoins.