Bitcoin is created in a multiple purpose and limited of 21million total supply, in which is simply used as a digital currency where it can be used as a means of payment, trading and investment by holding for a long term and price keep increasing as time goes on. Therefore Bitcoin is an asset that keeps increasing with a very high demand and low supply in the cryptocurrency market.

Bitcoin is a digital currency which can be stored for value since the price is expected to keep increasing with time so any body can decide to buy Bitcoin and hold it for a long time while some others can decide to accumulate a larger amount of it and use it to perform some digital transactions so it all depends on what everyone has in mind for acquiring it but the actual aim of inventing Bitcoin was for direct transactions without interference of anyone apart from you and the receiving address but because of the fact that Bitcoin keeps increasing in value, people now see it as a means of investment that is why majority of people are buying and hodling it for long term profits

I don't think so.
Bitcoin is a P2P currency which is supposed to give people the financial freedom to send and receive funds without being tied down.

But at the same time it also has monetary value. The fact that investors are in it doesn't mean that it's turning away from it's purpose, it just means that they're realizing it's potential. Whether they see it as a chance to make money or anything else doesn't matter.

If you want proof that it's going in the right direction, look how many people in many under-developed nations are now using crypto to transact because they have no other way. This effect in itself is huge. They're using btc and usd-backed coins as their main gateway to life.

If you ask me, that's a very powerful effect and won't be going down any time soon.

That is really a big issue since people is diverted into investment since this is what usually been discussed by a lot of people. The currency purpose has been less concern by people since maybe the high network fee maybe contribute this since people don't want to waste their money to pay huge fees just to do small or big transaction.

This should be the purpose of bitcoin existence, but a lot of people see an opportunity to gain something from its volatility that's why instead of using it. Many just think that if they hold it there would be more higher chance for them to earn more money. And I think we can't stop to make people think or decide to use bitcoin as currency since majority goes after on bitcoin because they can earn something from this coin.

Transaction fees can be a barrier that makes people not want to use bitcoin to pay, but I think the main reason is because the government has not legalized or approved us to use bitcoin as a main currency. What businesses or organizations do you think dare to oppose the government and use bitcoin as a payment method when the government does not allow it? So, even if bitcoin did not have high transaction fees and was not volatile, using bitcoin as a currency would still be difficult to implement.

Our use of bitcoin as an investment has never caused bitcoin to lose its function as a currency, we can still use it as a peer-to-peer currency despite high transaction fees and volatility. But the problem is, like I said, governments and regulations are the barriers that prevent bitcoin from becoming a popular currency.

Peer 2 peer transactions is something that could really be done and there's no issue to that, it is really just that majority of us would really be dealing up with exchange platforms on which we do really make trades.
On the moment that you would really be  tending to hold then it would really be just that simply holding on your own wallet and since we know that price is volatile and unpredictable, then it would really be that inevitable
that your money or investment will really be neither going up and down. Even lets say that you do focus about on having that p2p transactions or really that utilizing its actual usage but there's no way that you could be able to avoid when it comes to price volatility. On the moment that you've seen that you do make money then who doesnt want that?

On the moment that you've seen that increase then who wouldnt really be interested with that? Majority of us would really be interested. Right?
But of course you wouldnt really be forgetting about the risks on losing money too. So it would really be neither of both possible conditions.

But now it doesn't serve its real purpose since lots of people are not looking into this use case but rather they think about accumulating it for investment. Although there's nothing wrong for people to think about this is investment for them since that is their choice and somehow they can earn something from it specially if they can handle well their investment then also decide something useful to increase their chance to gain profits from bitcoin. Maybe we can also see this to use as currency when price goes stable since people might think about using it for each transaction they made. I also guess the fees contribute something for people to decide not to use it for transaction since we could see that sometimes bitcoin is not good option to transfer especially the fee goes up.

Transaction fees are ruining the purpose of Bitcoin as an innovative payment network and waiting for it to go down is inconvenient especially to important transactions because who wants to pay higher fees in a smaller transactions right? But if we treat Bitcoin as an investment, fees does not matter at all especially if you are a long term hodler because you can always wait for the lowest possible.

I fell in love with bitcoin when I discovered it sometime around 2013-2014.  I've been a long time financial advisor, one who's been around long enough to know how corrupt big banks are, and that is what really turned me on to bitcoin.  I am still of the mind that bitcoin should be used as a currency and that it's appeal as a currency is still something making it popular. 

I know a lot of people don't agree with me any more on this, but this is just how I feel, and have always felt.