This is why Bitcoin is so great! You can use it as a commodity and a store of value and you can use it as a currency. Before we had all these spam attacks and scaling issues, we used it for both. Lately people use it less as a currency, because the fees are too high and the confirmations take too long.

We are hoping that this will change after the 1 Aug 2017, when the first step is taken to solve the scaling problems.

I use bitcoin to buy electronics devices. I bought mining PC-s with it. I bought the first one on November 2016 and with the money won from it mining, I bought second one on March and third one a few days ago. I intend to mine in a business scale, for the moment I am putting different mining PC-s in different places and keep track of them with teamviewer. I also buy occasionally games in steam and maybe gamble a bit with it. Bitcoin has truly many real life usages but the user have to use his imagination to see all the benefits of using bitcoin in real life.

Bitcoin real life usage is buying items online, trading and investing. These are my usage of bitcoin were could really helps me in my daily life and gives extra income. Also, making some payment thru online so Im very thankful that I have bitcoin which less efforts in payment.

There is a wallet called blockchain wallet where they have web wallet and mobile app wallet and they also have merchant app where it is designed for the people who have business that wants to use bitcoin or accept it as another type of payment option for their shop and that wallet received bitcoin instantaneously so there is nothing to worry about the future acceptance of bitcoin in the stores.

very honestly in my area  we have only the facility to use bitcoin to recharge our mobile balance, we do not have any other user of bitcoin. but we can use it in so many places for online shopping, in fact i am living in a backward area of my country, and i do not think that in my area the number of bitcoin users may be more that 5, so  i think it can also be the reason that we cannot use bitcoin in local shops because he shopkeepers even do not have any idea about it. therefore they are not accepting bitcoin for shopping.

That is why most people that have Bitcoin like to transfer what they have into some sort of fiat then purchase something online or offline. The transaction speed is pretty slow though with a super high transaction fee the time it requires for a confirm has a high chance of being faster than the norm.

Transferring Bitcoin to regular fiat is the most manageable method right now since people don't like to wait hours or days just for one confirmation.

Kind of same here, there are no local shops, even towards bigger cities, who accepts Bitcoin. Moreover our government has made some speculation, which keeps people in fear who are newbie or wants to indulge with cryptocurrencies. Our local Bitcoin exchange supports recharge of mobiles and all.

But among friends its common to use them. And about online services, I am happy to be able to use BTC.

There are ways to "bet" if a transaction is going to be legitimate before confirmations start rolling in. You can check the address and unfold it's backwards history to see if there are older double-spendings thus I don't see a real issue here.
Also don't forget about what's going to happen in the near future, secondary chains won't need confirmations thus solving the issue for online/offline "speed requiring" shops like cafe's, bars etc.

Now bitcoin is already a part of payment tools in many places. Probably only a few large cities only, while for in this area can not be easily used. We are still limited with the existing infrastructure.

Last year I tried to build online advertising platform with friends.
I didn't have enough funds so I spend some of my btc funds in the wallet.
I also cash out some of my btc funds in order to buy a new computer.
So, after all, I feel that I used my btc money wisely but now, when I see btc price, not sure any more