there are still many people who continue to use bitcoin for transactions.. but there are also those who use bitcoin as an investment, and is that wrong? it's not because there is no prohibition that makes bitcoin an investment. so people want to treat it as an investment or as a transaction tool, that's their right.

and that also doesn't mean that with more and more people treating it as an investment makes bitcoin far from satoshi's vision. it's still on the right track. people use it as an alternative to traditional finance to send money, or for other purposes. bitcoin is still in accordance with satoshi's vision.

don't expect that it will replace the function of fiat. but it will act as a digital asset that can be accessed by everyone globally. as an alternative that secures and makes it easier for people to transact.

Holding Bitcoin is inevitable right now. That is a response to the system we live under, not only speculation. Inflation is real. Fiat is collapsing. Keeping Bitcoin shields one from their money losing value over night. This is survival not just greed. People are HODLing Bitcoin because the alternative is worse. But Bitcoin can’t be just a store of value forever. It cannot become money if no one spends it. A money that nobody transacts with is merely another asset. Indeed, holding makes sense right now. But Bitcoin has to be used if it is to be the revolution it was supposed to be. Right now, we’re in a necessary phase. People are HODLing since they want protection. That’s OK. But eventually, Bitcoin has to move. That’s the real test. If it never makes the leap from store of value to everyday currency, it loses its purpose. Right now, it’s a tool for exiting the system. In the future, it needs to be the system itself

Really?... And you think so?...

Bitcoin is going on the same path which it's creator Satoshi have laid down, while we still have it come more earlier than expected about the fortune in it, they never even knew it could have gotten to this extent much faster or this big, which means bitcoin has been serving on every purpose for which it was created, there is nothing to lose or fear about it, because either way you found it interesting to you, it is made applicable in solving any financial challenge on that same field, so don't look towards bitcoin in one direction.

i understand where you're coming from, but i think it's naive to think people will use btc as a currency if it's not easy to buy/sell. the fact that it's more widely recognized as an investment opportunity is actually a stepping stone towards wider adoption. many people use btc to transact, but it's often for small, high-value transactions like online shopping or tipping. the market hasn't evolved to the point where btc is a seamless replacement for fiat, but it's getting there.

people are gonna do what they are gonna do. Its kinda hard to tell everyone how to use something, especially something new and exciting like Bitcoin.  Its a bit like if you created a new kind of game, and everyone just wanted to collect the pieces instead of playing.  You cant force them to play, right?

as soon as you said "coffee" i could tell that you have been taught stupid rhetoric by a group that promotes other networks as "the solution".. let me demystify the crap they filled your mind with

bitcoin can handle more transactions. even before scaling the blocksize, transactions could be made leaner to give a proper 6x boost to the current block space vs current tx count. yep 4mb current blockspace could allow 16,000tx instead of current average of 2700tx
then it must be cleared up that the network has no technical limit that stops the blocksize from scaling further, yep even a 8mb block wont slow things down for nodes. we are in a different technical era than 2015.. it was 10 years ago not 10 days ago.. the arguments of a decade ago did not apply then nor now
yet we still see the rhetoric chimed and chanted about even now(facepalm)

average world wide internet speeds of 2015 was 5mbps now its not 20mbps nor 50mbps but way higher at over 100mbps. so no problem to move forward by multiples.. should dev politics stop bowing down to their sponsors that want people to use other networks so they can claim middlemen payment processing fee's by pretending bitcoin has technical problems

and with more transactions able, means less fee costs needed individually so we could get back to low penny/cent level onchain fee's, where by even 3rd world countries can become interested in using bitcoin again

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anyway back to the topic..
fiat money is inflationary  currency, so by design the less time you hold onto it the better. the faster you can spend it to get products you want the better,
bitcoin is deflationary currency, so by design the longer you hold onto it the better, the less times you spend it the better.

its better to use fiat to get your daily groceries. its better to use bitcoin to bulk buy your monthly groceries
its better to use fiat to pay you weekly monthly bills asap. its better to use bitcoin to pay up a years worth of rent/utilities in one go during the high season

fiat by design needs people to spend money multiple times a day as it benefits both spender and receiver.
bitcoin by design is better to accumulate in the low season and hold, to then sell on the high season and then pay off bills, utilities in bulk/lump sums

bitcoins spending habits should be different than fiat spending habits be default and by design. changing peoples habits helps people learn more about economics and how to make gains from the different mindset

you dont need to use bitcoin to buy daily coffee, instead wait for ATH and transfer enough to get a starbucks giftcard to cover a year+ of coffee, knowing you saved alot of money compared to doing it the inflationary fiat model way of getting rid of it fast and often(daily)

If the goal was for bitcoin to only be seen as what will be used for transaction purposes only, then it should have been made and paraded as a stable coin and not for it to be volatile the way it is. Everyone is using bitcoin for whatever purpose they want to use it for, and I don't even see bitcoin as being a global currency as part of Satoshi's vision; it's already serving as an alternative payment method, which anyone can use, and it's okay that way.

I wouldn’t have liked to talk about gold in this regard but, now that you’ve mentioned, I’m quite sure that you know gold over the years have been able to accord itself certain use cases such as; Jewelry, Money and even serves as an asset of real value.

This makes you wonder why is the case for Bitcoin different?
Could it be because, Bitcoin isn’t tangible and given to that fact, it could worth a little less or doesn’t qualify as an asset of real value?

What I would add to say is that, gold have been around for over a century, let’s give Bitcoin the time it needs and enjoy what it becomes, to hodlers most especially.

I bet that most of the holders and people that have been treating it as an asset and store of value are also using it for transactions. A simple sending and receiving of it is already helping its ecosystem continue to grow. And it's not a problem if someone doesn't use it the way it was said on its use as a medium of exchange. Look at the histories, most of the medium of exchanges have also become an asset just like the perfect example, gold because of the supply that they have compared to fiat. Holding and having it is also another use of Bitcoin.