You could view Bitcoin as an investment, speculating that the future price of this still-young and volatile digital asset will grow massively. So far in 2019, it has proved to be the best-performing asset out there, including gold. Considering the advantages of Bitcoin - as secure, sound money, no need for a bank, where only you control it - there are certainly a lot of reasons to hang on to it. There is also the movement surrounding it and the considerable development going on across the entire cryptocurrency space. Regulation and ease of adoption are the only things still holding it back, and even without much of these the trend is growing. This global tech is pretty unstoppable now anyhow.
Not only this, but many people do actually use Bitcoin today as an easy-to-use, guaranteed way of sending money to friends, family or charities etc. anywhere in the world, or to pay for goods and services. Indeed, there are quite a few things you can do with Bitcoins, besides hoard them like gold or trade them for other things.
Here's a quick round-up of some maybe surprising options...
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Any comments and votes v. MUCH appreciated here on Steemit, especially with any other suggestions about websites etc. where you can put your BTC to interesting use.
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