Bitcoin is what I hold for a long time. Bitcoin may have grown a lot earlier, but I didn't sell bitcoin.Everyone then said that Bitcoin would soon be worth a million dollars. But after various news, Bitcoin did the opposite.Now the bitcoin market has come down a lot.In a market where I'm holding my bitcoin, I'm not spending anything.

If you really bought earlier you have nothing to worry about your investment. Early adopters really occupied the safe slots and which I know bitcoin cannot reverse to worth less than $10,000 again. People that join from 2021 till date are people that are supposed to be panicking when there is bear.

But regarding Op's question, until we begin to see bitcoin as a currency to be spent and recieved, there will always be breach in circulation. It is not really a disadvantage though, because it is the nature of bitcoin.

In my own opinion, I rather use bitcoin as an investment and fiat to buy goods. Don't get me wrong but I might give higher amount to store owners than what is actually needed, I mean what if bitcoin price gets higher so it means that the amount of bitcoin I pay before is not the same anymore so it will be a disadvantage to me, maybe I could use other crypto coin such as usdc, usdt, but if bitcoin? I will only use that for investments.

This question has been discussed many times in this forum. Have you tried to look for the answers or checked a similar thread?

I never bought anything with BTC, I only used it for investment. Here, in my country, it is forbidden to use as a payment tool. So, simply I avoid using it for paying for any goods or services. You must know there are many countries that limit the use of BTC, even some still treat BTC as an illegal thing. This question probably fits with people in a country that legalize BTC for both investment and payment purposes.

Answered this multiple times on this forum, nothing changed in our country. The only thing I bought was a digital wallet code for a game  Bitcoin is still not that accepted by people so you can only buy digital goods with it. There is one merchant here that accepts bitcoin to pay your electricity bill but I feel a little bit guilty once when I use it to pay our bill as I treat it to be more of my investment. But during hard times, it's really hard to not touch it.

I have bought tons of stuff using BTC- one of the notable one was back in the years of 2017-2019 where I used majority of my BTCs (converted them to cash thru our local exchange) were spent and allocated in order to purchase additional educational materials (e.g. books, pens, etc.) to partially fund my college experience.

Like what I usually comment on similar posts like these, this forum is truly a blessing not only for me but also to my family as they indirectly benefitted from it. Without the convenience of working online, I would probably be working beyond normal work hours just to make ends meet.

Currently, majority of my BTCs are kept in my local exchange and separate wallet for security. While keeping them here may be relatively safe, it is still highly advisable to transfer them to a hardware wallet in the future.

lately I've become quite often using crypto as a means of payment when transacting with people I know and they are also crypto users. don't miss bitcoin, I've also used it. recently I bought a cabinet and SSD kit for a laptop.

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Before you make this thread i also created a thread whose content is almost the same as the one you created. maybe you can see other experiences in this thread (https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5400673.msg60251920#msg60251920

I would recommend spending Bitcoin on Amazon. because better then your investment

I stopped thinking like that long time ago, how much would BTC be worth now if I didn't spend it long time ago because chances are that  if you didn't buy VPN back the, you would sell your BTC year or two later, for a fraction of a current price.

This reminds me of a friend who tried to tease me year ago, asking me whether I feel stupid that $100 worth of BTC that I spent on VPN now worth like $600, not knowing that I bought that Bitcoin when price was ~1k and used to it buy VPN when it was around ~10k. So yeah, that was really stupid move from me, according to him.

What will be the different approach in your opinion? There's no other thing that it can be used because it's used as almost everything. Like as a money, as an investment, an asset. I guess most of us have used bitcoin for buying something, maybe some hardware, some domains, digital products like gift codes and other stuff that's being adopted and accepted for payments in bitcoin. On my experience, mostly digital products like codes for games that I've purchased and other physical products too.