Why Bitcoins?
International payments are easy and cheap .Small businesses may like them because there are no credit card fees.
http://money.cnn.com/infographic/technology/what-is-bitcoin/
1.Transaction fees,Try spending 30$ worth of bitcoin and your network fees will exceed the amount you will be spending. When bitcoin is being promoted as an alternative to the fiat then it must be the best not in par with fiat.And if small transactions are not viable through bitcoin network then definitely bitcoin is not for masses.and anything that aims to win the masses and not made for masses is prone to die a slow death like Yahoo and Myspace of Dotcom era. http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/12/22/bitcoins-average-transaction-fee-surpasses-50-network-issues-remain/
2.Speeds of transactions,On a day with heavy traffic the average time for the transaction to complete is minimum one hour when only 1% of the world is into bitcoin,Imagine a day when a major portion of the world gets into this.This would just make people more impatient.See its ok with Fiat taking even longer times because its a currency that is widely accepted and has a security factor to it.And anything trying to get in par with fiat or dream of replacing it must be just exceptionally good.In Key aspects like transaction speeds and Transaction fee. https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time
Because privacy and getting away from banks aren't the only things that matter.At the end of the day what make a currency is, its Speed and cost of transactions,because this is what it is made for Basically.
I have mentioned the traits if not tackled in time,these could emerge as potential reasons for BTC downfall,so please try understanding the problem rather than just blindly defending bitcoin,Because am ain't against it.I hold decent amount of bitcoin share.but now am preferring to rather exchange them with ripple and other cryptos that are better.So lets have a healthy discussion and a sound exchange of Idea
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