Bitcoin Lost the Developer War (and It's Not Coming Back)
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Bitcoin is simply not suited to be a widely used "currency".
This is why despite almost 2 decades of promotion and effort, you still can't easily buy food with bitcoin.
Bitcoin is the ultimate "sucker" play. It's wooden nickels minus the wood. It only exits to embody the hope of finding a bigger sucker.
Criminals are all about taking advantage of people --- at high risk.
They accept the risk (and cost) of using bitcoin in their niche only as long as they remain confident that suckers will trade real usable currency for them.
They undoubtedly make this trade at the earliest opportunity.
Or just say you heard about it early and regret not grabbing a few wooden nickels.
Even as "digital gold", Bitcoin is inferior to the real thing in many ways.
For investment purposes, real gold has been fully "digitized" as well.
You can easily buy, hold and sell it electronically without ever taking physical delivery. And typically with better security and lower overall transaction fees than with Bitcoin. For example, see "GLD".
And real gold does have some practical utility --- beyond just hope for more, bigger suckers to drive the price up.
Let's face the facts; outside of criminal activity, Bitcoin is mostly a pure sucker play. And the typical sucker is either a gambler or someone with limited grasp of existing financial instruments and alternatives. This is not to suggest that there aren't large numbers of these people out there.
I'd say they're closer to baseball cards. You can't buy anything with a baseball card, and I doubt anybody actually looks at theirs, but there's nonetheless a thriving market for them.
I suppose some government could decide to monetize baseball cards, and the coin advocates seem certain that the US government is about to start letting you pay your taxes in bitcoins. They might even be right about that.