The usage of bitcoin mentioned above are simple, as that's the purpose it was created in the first place. It was essentially created to substitute the local banks while creating a self control system for users with the purpose of executing transactions locally and cross border. Legally, bitcoin has fulfilled its purpose and usage but there are still people who use bitcoin for illegal practices which does not align with its purpose.

Yep, you're right. Arguing about which Bitcoin use case "deserves more attention" only divides us and makes people try to push their own way of thinking on other. Like how Nrcewker is calling people who spend Bitcoin stupid and wasteful in this very topic. I really don't like that.

The core idea of Bitcoin is freedom and censorship resistance. Bitcoin is a pretty flexible financial tool, and people should be free to use it in whatever way fits their needs.

Every Bitcoin usecase has its own value and can be useful in different situations.

Even though Satoshi never mentioned Bitcoin as a investment asset or a store of value in the white paper, and never said that it could become one. But looking at how he designed it, from the limited supply and scarcity to PoW...it's kinda hard to believe he never thought about that possibility even once.

Also, do you think if Bitcoin was only used for its original purpose, would people even need it and would it become as popular as it is today? Tbh, I think most of us here were attracted to Bitcoin because of its profit potential more than any usecase.

It's not like the original idea of bitcoin was forgotten, it's just that people don't really have much interest or actual demand for that specific use case, y'know?

Aside serving as a payment option because it's also called a peer to peer electronic cash system, I'm not exactly sure of other use.
You made mention of receiving payment, cross border payment, making donations, etc, all without third parties... Don't you think they all sum up Bitcoin's use as a P2P payment system?.

Well, there's actually one useful purpose that I personally feel sounds quite useful, even though it kind of falls within its investment and p2p purpose. The useful purpose I'm talking about is self custody. Bitcoin allows users to be their own bank, giving them the power to control and move their own funds at their own will... Sounds like an underrated useful purpose to me.

I believe that one of the most useful purposes of bitcoin aside using it as an investment is for transactions purpose. Bitcoin can serve as a medium of exchange without the interference of fiat. With this usefulness of bitcoin, it becomes possible for people staying in different countries to be able to do transactions with  fewer restriction.
From my own point of view, the aspect of using bitcoin as means of transaction needs to be focus more on . Although , it is mostly the investment part of it that pulls many people into bitcoin, however using it as means of transaction and having control of one's funds is an essential part of bitcoin.

The remittance is not the highest use case here, bro, the conversion problems are common. I can't send BTC or any crypto back home because none of them know how to P2P it, because not every country has options for converting the crypto back into fiat directly in a few easy steps like in the US, they have to find a person and make P2P deals.

The use case that made it everything is its protection against local currency collapse. Our currency was about to collapse, but I did not worry because I had some in Bitcoin, so I knew I could bear the hit, but not everyone could who was only holding the fiat in banks.

That's why we must build a portfolio and not sit with fiat. Due to volatility, I will say payment use case is getting behind, people mostly use it for long term investment.

I think the store of value could be an advantage of Bitcoin that people might consider. Imagine when someone puts their money in a bank, that money will be affected by inflation, and over time the value of that money will keep decreasing. Even though some banks offer interest on their customers' savings, it's still not comparable to the rate of inflation.
This is one reason why people should consider Bitcoin as a store of value. While Bitcoin may appear volatile in the long term, when viewed over the long term, this may become less significant. That's why Bitcoin can be a way to preserve wealth over the long term.

You are right that the main purpose of Bitcoin is to give people economic freedom. After Bitcoin was created, people were initially interested through all these features. In the financial system of Fiat currency, the government controls the economy of the people, where people have no freedom. The economy of a country is managed through the banking system. We only think that our savings is in the bank. But our doubts about how much control we have over it or its value or how it will be in the future.

And the concept of Bitcoin was probably created from this doubt, and which was implemented by Satoshi. After with time people started using Bitcoin in different ways according to their personal freedom. And this popularity is increasing day by day. Conscious and knowledgeable people who see that inflation is increasing and the value of money is decreasing due to the financial system of fiat currency, the features of freedom, limited supply and permissionless  digital currency offered by Bitcoin are more attractive to them.

And those who focus more on the long term price increase of Bitcoin, the situation is different. They mainly want to profit by trading or investing through Bitcoin. This is also their personal freedom, which Bitcoin has given. But like you, I think the permissionless system and freedom are the biggest advantages of Bitcoin.

bitcoin occupy "no space", just things to a seed or a priv.key. Have you ever seen something valuable that could be stored in this way ?
If this was not enough it could be potential remain durable for infinite years.
The fix amount emitted would not create inflation or it would allow clearly to have a benchmark about coin in circulation and so on.
The most and potential use of bitcoin would be in a modern warfare or in any scenario that could not implies the existence of a central authority/easily way to communicate/make transaction. Even for living abroad.

You are assuming that your money would be always accessible but its evident you haven't spend more than 2 weeks per year abroad as unbanked
We are undervaluing nowadays this aspect, that itself is the nature of bitcoin as a pure form of decentralization and potentially the only things that we will trust in the future or that can continue to work without any break.

Bitcoin has a number of uses but if we are sincere to ourselves it is mostly held for profit, this is the major driving force for it's adoption and we have to accept it's reality, if it were not for profit making I'm not sure that we would have achieved this level of adoption in less than two decades. Aside from it being an asset for profit on the long term we can agree that because it is a store of value we can hold it as hedge against inflation so aside from holding it to make profit it is also giving us privacy to hold our own decentralized digital currency.

Bitcoin was originally created for p2p transactions but it is not the reason why the majority are holding it because it is volatile, we would rather spend fiat to buy things but if you're very concerned about privacy you will still priotize spending your Bitcoin anywhere it is accepted.