With many theories and probability streaming over the worldwide media, bitcoin was foreseen to be the future legal tender in the international market in the near future. But the question is when will it happen. In the Philipines using a third party company the so-called coins.ph will allow you to pay electric bills, water bills, telecommunications billing. This small event show the potential future of bitcoin as an international legal tender. Soon we buy fired chickens with bitcoin.
Bitcoin was never meant to buy your daily groceries or fried chicken. It doesn't have the basic characteristics to become a normal currency like USD. Bitcoin is an alternate investment route and one should treat bitcoin like that only.
Invest for a long time and you can make your dreams come true. If you spend your bitcoin for buying your daily stuff, I'm sure you will regret one day for sure.
Who says that, please quote your source. The Bitcoin white paper calls it a A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, not an alternative investment option. ^hmmmmm^ Satoshi never meant for people to hoard all their coins and wait for the price to rise, and to make profits from that, it was a cash system. What do you use cash for? Daily groceries and friend chicken. ^smile^
Yes, you are correct by definition. It is a decentralized and peer to peer electronic currency. I too agree that there are many small service providers who accepts bitcoin as payment for their services.
However, lets do a small calculation: (assume, bitcoin price is now $675.00)
Today if you buy a fried chicken platter for $20 so as per bitcoin current price, you paid 0.03 BTC to the seller.
Now after some day, bitcoin price rose to $795 (which actually happened few days back)...so your 0.03 BTC is valued at $23.85. So you are making a loss of 13.85 USD on a single bitcoin platter.
In this context I said, it is better to restrain yourself from buying daily groceries using bitcoin and store if for a better time. Instead use your fiat do all these things.
I agree with this , as bitcoin price varies continuously it may not be very useful to buy groceries etc. currently only paying bills for mobile currency etc is allowed , but in future there may be some method comes to use the bitcoin for buying even groceries . Holding bitcoin and selling to normal currency when bitcoin price goes is high is preferable
using bitcoin to buy groceries has 2 bebenfits
1. you can rely on bitcoin to live, without having to "cash out" back to fiat just to live. simply by buying things with bitcoin
2. you do not need to spend every 'bit'.. instead think of it as 'savings' eg spend 50% save 50%.. by the time you reach retirement you have lived a happy life USING bitcoin and also SAVED enough bitcoin to continue living a happy life
unlike fiat with its low/negative interest and inflationary nature that LOSES you value if you hoard.
in short dont 100% hoard. dont 100% spend. find the right balance to live off bitcoin today, so you can live off bitcoin in the future..