I disagree with you, bitcoin is preferred in the real world and adopted as a means of payment compared to thousands of other altcoins. People can invest in bitcoin and make it a store of value because they want to make a profit and that is another option of bitcoin that you get other than as a means of payment.

Not everyone has the same thoughts about bitcoin as you do, while most people think that bitcoin is more secure, can increase privacy, and is cheaper than other centralized payment systems. You can choose your own fees when sending bitcoins and this will affect the speed at which your transactions are confirmed within a block.

In my opinion no, bitcoin's goal has been achieved although not everyone likes it. You can use bitcoin as a means of payment if you wish, but you cannot expect bitcoin to be legal tender globally. Bitcoin is the payment option if you like privacy and security, so bitcoin's goal has actually been achieved although not everyone uses it as a means of payment.

Bitcoin functions as a peer-to-peer currency which basically makes it an alternate payment solution, and it is accepted by a number of merchants and also different platforms. But this was not the objective of bitcoin, it is a free, decentralized network you can use for different purposes.

The technology of bitcoin is more secure than all other altcoins. transactions speed and amount are also adjustable.

bitcoin was meant as a currency for the unbanked.

some seen it to mean 'new cash system'(daily spend) method, others deem it as a 'asset class'(savings account) method
some see it as a base protocol for side projects

most altcoins and their side projects are just gimmicks,
yes they get viral meme trends. but they dont actually get much usage

take DOGE.
soo many memes but only 30k asics mining it.. yet bitcoin has 1.7mill asics
bitcoin is 58x more mining devices than doge(comparing most efficient asics per network)

ethereum are about to 'detonate diff bomb' to move away from PoW mining. they know they cant scale and so their coin is going to turn cheap when more people profit from a negligible passive cost of just "stake and wait"

who's going to want to pay $3k for eth on the market if they can stake for $0loss and wait X hours to form a block for:
$1.09/eth ($2.40 of pc electric for 2.2 coin(current estimate of 7% of network staking))
$15.58/eth ($34.29 of pc electric for 2.2 coin(current estimate of 100% of network staking))

no one will pay $3k/eth when they can 'stake and wait' an eth for $1.10- $15.60.
expect Ethereum price to correct down massively when it flips to PoS.

bitcoin will remain a strong network. giving it a good bases for side projects to rely on its security. yes some projects have had mega flaws and not become the "solution" presented 5 years ago. but that wont stop bitcoin from trying other things

bitcoin can create its own NFT sidechain.. its not that difficult

bitcoin doesnt need to change. EG it doesnt need to alter itself to fit silly things like LN. when it can just peg off a sidechain that allows more utility. either with faster blocks or bigger blocks or changing the units from sats to sub-sats.
smart contracts are gimmicky without a blockchain(network wide audit) so instead of changing bitcoin to meet some silly smart contract network of no mass audit security. bitcoin can offshoot many sidechains..
EG US.bits(american bitcoin network for 100sat denominated transactions)
EG UK.bits(british bitcoin network for 100sat denominated transactions)
where bitcoin mainnet is the IMF/world bank of many sidechains

He got influenced to believe into those things? Possibly yet its not really that rare that there are lots of wrong informations or show ups against Bitcoin on which these newbies or
do lack out of experience would really be ending up on having this kind of impression or belief just because they have seen it somewhere.IT was never been intended for the sake
of investment on the first place.If they do just look basically on its whitepaper alone then they would totally get on whats the true motive on why its been created.

Bitcoin had no objective, it's not a being it's not an entity it possesses no thoughts, it's a tool, it is used by humans to achieve their objectives.
What were those objectives 10-8 years ago and what are now when we speak about the majority, that's a debatable change, probably it was looked at more like a censorship-resistant currency and less as a tool to get rich not it's probably more of the later, I would certainly doubt any figures that put more than 10% of the new poeple entering the crypto science for any other purpose than making money.
Sad truth but that's how everything ends up in human society, a thing that doesn't generate additional value will always be tossed aside.


Unlike a car, a plane or a computer BTC is just code.
You can't make a rotary engine 100hp plane breach the sound barrier no matter what you try but with bitcoin it's simple, look at LN, then take a beer and enjoy somebody on this topic losing his mind over the lighting network. 

Bitcoin is the first layer, and it's better than ever.

In terms of fast payments, that's the second layer. Lightning ⚡ has been fantastic for this. It takes a couple of seconds to make payments with it and it's almost free.

You can see lightning in action in many places now. For example, exchanges, and stores. You can also see cool things done with the lightning's lnurl protocol, and how lightning is being used in El Salvador, where Bitcoin is legal tender. If you're interested to see the state of the lightning network, have a look here.

If you're looking for a lightning wallet, here are some great ones, all of these are non-custodial:

- Muun

- Blixt

- Breez

- Phoenix

- Zeus

If you just want the simplest one to use, go with Muun.

In terms of applications, there are many new developments on top of lightning. That's the third layer.

Some examples:

- Sphinx. Decentralized chat/social media/etc, you can even sell your texts/photos/media out of the box. All using sats.

- Juggernaut. Similar to sphinx. All using sats.

- impervious. P2P everything with payments built-in. All based on lightning.

- Login with your lightning wallet instead of user/pass

- lightning address. Make your own lightning address for simpler payments in lightning.

- zebedee API. API to use sats as micro-payments in games.

- If you ever need to send a fax, you can do it with lightning

- And if you need to send an SMS instead, here's how to send it with lightning

Check out this cool visualization of lightning nodes on a map

There's always new stuff going on around Bitcoin, specially now around lightning, which is very fast, and almost free.

It is to say that the main reason for its existence is to become an alternative to fiat money and yeah, we are already there.
If you do not know OP, some countries like El Salvador have already accepted Bitcoin as a mode of payment which could prove that we are very close to achieving it. We need more time for this as we know that adoption can't be instant and many people are still leaving in the doubts and have no knowledge about Bitcoin which perhaps we can't urge them anyway.

In fact, until now bitcoin can still be an alternative payment, and there are even some countries that have actually been positive about payments using bitcoin so far, such as El Salvador, besides that America also tends to be neutral in this case, because even they continue to suppress the adoption of bitcoin in other countries, but in fact they do not prohibit large companies in America from accepting payment for products using bitcoin as has been done by Tesla, Apple and Paypal.
But indeed now the majority of many countries emphasize the use of bitcoin as investment assets, because indeed many countries may not be able to see the broad benefits of using bitcoin, so they are more inclined to regulate bitcoin only as an investment asset, but I think that in the future if a country like El Salvador be able to benefit greatly from a their bitcoin adoption, of course other countries will also follow the steps taken by El Salvador.
So let's wait and see ..!

Even if bitcoin is considerd as a store of value, more than a medium of exchnage, what difference does it make ? At present we are using fiat money for transcation and gold as a store of value. Think of future when both store of value and medium of exchange will be merged by bitcoin. As the bitcoin adaption increases, we will see more people using bitcoin in thier business