To be honest, Steem is not perfect, either. While it can scale quite well, there is no privacy which is a huge barrier for using it as a currency.
If you use steem for daily stuff, not only governments can see what you are doing, but everybody else, too.
There are lots of problems with steem. There will be innovation and progress.
We might not be on steem in 5 years.
What do you feel are these problems?
Economics, complexity, consensus, graphene.
At least participating in Steem doesn't requires a big mining rig.
Sure but you forfeit some control for that.
You don't have to use a mining rig to be a user of Bitcoin.
Not really sure your point.
This is true. Private transactions should be added as quickly as possible.
By "using as a currency" I mean that people would start to buy and sell all kinds of stuff with steem. Trading is only very small part of a real economy.
Ahh, you mean like that. Well, that of course works, but then people are not using steem as a currency, but only as an investment and then they exchange it for fiat currency or something else to buy stuff.
And it's not only how to use steem to buy, but how to sell stuff for it. Having a third party to go through is usually very inconvenient.
We can have a real economy when steem can be used as a real P2P currency, without any middlemen.