If people thought that way, then no one would use Bitcoin as a currency, which was the primary goal. Anyone who has been involved in paying with BTC for a long time (at least 5 years) knows that there is no point in regretting that we paid 1 BTC for something in 2015 when the price was around $200 - then it was hard for most to imagine that the value of Bitcoin would literally explode. If someone had known for sure that this would happen, he would probably have thought several times about whether they would spend that BTC or save it for the future. Yet life is short, if you don't do some things today, you may never have a chance to do it again.

My strategy is to pay something with BTC when it suits me, not only because of the current price factor, but also because of the current on-chain fees compared to some other payment options. In case Bitcoin becomes a legal tender in my country, I would definitely use it to pay whenever I deem it the right opportunity to do so.

You are talking about situation when all your wealth is stored in fiats and you treat BTC as investment only ("believe that Bitcoin will increase in value over time"). In such case for sure, you will spend fiats. But if your all wealth is stored in BTC, you get your salary in BTC, you pay your taxes in BTC, you get loan in BTC you use crypto wallet instead of bank account ... you will spend BTC for everyday things because its the only means of payment you have. You may even use BTC to invest in fiats (sound strange for non crypto people) and put it in safe place (in case something bad will happened to BTC) - in this case you will also use BTC for everyday payments.

In Salvador question is. Do you want to use dollars and store all your wealth in an asset that was printed +25% in last year, that lost 95% of its purchasing power in last 110 year or you want to store your wealth in BTC and use BTC for everyday spendings.

OP, why should anyone spend their Bitcoin if it’s still on its path of price discovery to six digits? There’s a time for spending, and there’s a time for saving/HODLing. Although you can always do both of them, spend some, and HODL some. It’s permissionless.

That fiat value of Bitcoin could also drop the next week and you'll have been better off using Bitcoin then than fiat. Bitcoin can be used whichever way the holder wishes too. If it's accepted as a legal tender, I will definitely use it to make some purchases, it will not necessarily replace fiat, but would have its uses in some situations.

You answered your inquiry in the same reply, if Bitcoin is the best means of payment at the time, then by all means use it to make purchases irrespective of price actions.

yeah, but then again there are people who use it just as a currency and don't really care about the price or just want to experience buying something in BTC. I understand the point of Hdoling since I've been doing it but Hodling is only good as long as you can afford it. trying to Hodl your bitcoin to the point that you have to loan or borrow money from others is just stupid.

even though my country has legalized bitcoin, but in my personal opinion I will not spend bitcoin, to buy my needs, let alone to buy daily necessities, even to buy a car I will not use bitcoin, I will still use fiat currency to buy a car, because considering the price of bitcoin if it goes up it can be 2 times, but if fiat currency will not change in value, that's the reason why I don't want to shop using bitcoin..

I think almost everyone in this thread agrees that it's not worth spending your bitcoin for daily needs when you can still use fiat to buy it. And the chances of bitcoin going up in value is the biggest regret that you will have when you spend your bitcoin just because you can spend it on stores and malls.

The main aim is to use it as payment source and when the country accepts it as legal tender the urge to use it will automatically increases say not to buy a car but rather make small transaction with its help.Take the case of El Salvador the people are already using LN to make transactions at small shops as we have seen some clips but buying cars and other big stuffs could not be reasonable justification according to me because you also need to HODL it as investment if you are aware about the future prices from the past indiacations.Use them in combined way will help to make btc liquidate in the market also and it will be treated as payment source rather than backup assest only.So take your decisions wisely.

If that the case then most people would not spend their Bitcoin to buy something such as a car as you said, but what if otherwise things happen? We all know that Bitcoin values are so fluctuate, it isn't impossible if the value would decrease 25% or even worse in the next week, isn't it a fortune that they bought that car with Bitcoin?