To use bitcoin as a currency, it needs approval from the government, and I think the government will not easily approve it because they already have fiat, which they can control. Fiat now seems to evolve to digital money because we see that many applications use digital money and people need to deposit their money to that application to pay with that digital payment.

Bitcoin will have a bright future as bitcoin can help people have more options to pay their transactions, and that will not have any limits because bitcoin can cross the border between one country to the other countries. With the growth of technology, the digital era already comes to us, and if we can educate more people about bitcoin, they will try to use bitcoin as like they used the other digital money to pay for what they bought. We need to give more time for bitcoin to grow and invite more people to use and have bitcoin, and while we do not yet reach that phase, we can save our bitcoin in our wallet and wait for that time.

You are new and you have still much to learn.

I'm a bit worried though that even people who made it to this forum do think like this and they don't understand that the way the central-bank based currencies are designed and used by the banks is against the benefit of common people. USD already has the inflation. A central-bank issued digital USD will (most probably) also have the options for surveillance (full tracking) and seizing (if they want to, they can get your money). They are not a way to go away from the current system, they are a way to keep you in even deeper.

I was not trying to make a case for central-bank based currencies as much as I was trying to debunk the OP's title and post.

I am all for the separation of the federal reserve and the ability for citizens to obtain goods with currencies, I just don't think Bitcoin is the answer for any of that; it is a great poster child and has served to really bolster the adoption of cryptocurrencies, but like I said, there are many better options now.

And to infer that "digital money" was somehow created by or originated with Bitcoin is silly - it's the first cryptocurrency, but it's not the first, last, or best digital money.

Hope that clarifies my stance and intent. :-)

It does, but it somehow also brings more "questions" than "answers".



Well, if any digital coin is pegged to a central bank coin, it brings inflation and usually you also have to trust the issuer too.
If you come with other crypto currencies as being better, for being faster, or with bigger block size, or whatever, there's already a debate about that in another thread. The short answer is imho: such coins never had the volume + price + security of Bitcoin to actually prove themselves, but again, I don't want to derail this thread to become a copy of that one.

That Bitcoin currently is not the best digital money that can exist, I do agree. But it has proven itself worthy and it still evolves. And what the future holds, I cannot tell, maybe bitcoin will evolve in into what all expect from it, or maybe better one will emerge, future generations will see.

Well, I don't think it's a good idea to abandon the physical completely for virtual/digital. Don't forget the former tend to offer better privacy and has alot of other very important advantages people seem to ignore.
I would be making sure there are improved or there are much better physical alternatives just incase it becomes difficult/dangerous/impossible to use the digital.

That's how it's going to be, we always choose whatever is convenient for us so we know where is the next evolution of money is and it is inevitable and the only way to benefit really big from it is if the people adopt really early because the later you ride the hype, the less benefits you could've enjoyed.

Governments are not against the digital money or cashless economy but they never want to accept the decentralization and anonymity while making payments, but humans evolve too so their supression helped the bitcoin adoption when government banned payment processors and banks to send money to wikileaks as donation.

we realize that bitcoin cannot replace fiat money, but if you don't believe in digital money I think you are too outdated, because in the digital era everyone is looking for income through digital money, then they invest the currency, to be able to earn profit, then they exchange their money in digital to fiat currency,

It is not easy to get the government to accept Bitcoin, because the government does not like Bitcoin that cannot be controlled. The government
already has fiat, which is now starting to adapt by entering the digital era. Which, as you said, is now starting to appear many applications that
can be used for financial transactions, because now almost everyone is starting to switch to cashless payments. But Bitcoin has the advantage of
not only being able to be used as a currency like fiat, Bitcoin can also be used as a digital asset. Which is what makes the future of Bitcoin bright,
therefore hopefully the government can realize that it is very good to make Bitcoin as an alternative payment. Let's just give it time for Bitcoin
to grow, as more and more people own and use Bitcoin, should sooner or later eventually I believe the government can accept Bitcoin.