Bitcoin Forum

Most of the members consider bitcoin as major currency of future. Let us assume that it will be accomplished one day, but before that, I wonder which spheres of our everyday life will adapt bitcoin first?

Online shopping will be the next step after online gambling.  Then its down to the current banking industry if they want to provide services around bitcoin or fight it.  There are many social change benefits, too many to list.

I think the remittances is a done deal and that the next step will be when gold bugs realise that Bitcoin is gold 2.0 and jump in.   ;D

Anything you pay for online would be the obvious first area that would be affected, this includes shopping, gambling, payments to people and so on.

In the real world it could be used everywhere, just looking at bitcoin as an idea it could be used in almost everything we do daily, give it 5 years and we will see where we are.

Maybe Bitcoin will not be dominant currency in the future because fiat will be not put of the throne but it will probably be much more adopted and spread then it is today, at first place in shopping and different online services. Maybe also in high technology and IT industry.

Since online world is obviously the main line of bitcoin transactions then all online related things associated with our daily life will be the one who will get the most of it. It will include online shopping (which actually present now), online payments (e.g bills, fees, reloads etc), money transfers (local, foreign and everything about remittances) and many more.

After that I think electronical payment or e-payment will be the next one and that will include physical payments such as when you buy at groceries, payments at physical shop or merchants, mall shopping, restaurant or mini cafe etc, transportation etc.

Like everybody else i agree on the online shopping as next big market, but there is more. Everyone and every business that deals with different countries and currencies has big potential. Imagine how cool it would be if you could pay on every airport with Bitcoins. The whole Tourist industry is a big target. Think of tourist hots spots like the Taj Mahal where you could pay in Bitcoin. Say you fly to India for a nice week. At your local airport you buy some coins for the trip and fly to India, where you can pay in the duty free shops with Bitcoin, then take a pre paid cab to your hotel also paid in Bitcoin (The cab, as you booked and paid the hotel from home). Now you can visit some tourist places and pay in Bitcoin for the admission and also for the food in the restaurants around the tourist attraction (since they obviously adopted Bitcoin to make it easy for their customers). And when you return, you can spend your last coins, give it to charity or keep them for your next trip (best case scenario is that your coins will be even more worth then) or a domestic growing Bitcoin economy. How cool would that be?!

First to adopt were the casinos and more of them will start accepting it soon. Next the online shops that doesn't accept it yet, but I believe soon they will start accepting also. When this happen it will be already enough, we can buy any kind of stuff on the internet, online.
Fiat could be used only to pay our daily expenses, like bills and food, all the rest of our money could values more in bitcoins to buy products that we want to have, but that aren't primordial, like electronics, clothes, accessories, virtual stuff...

They obviously won't

Gold bugs are there to store value, not to speculate (i.e. they are there not for profits). This is a conceptual difference, one of kind and not of degree, therefore it is unlikely to happen (if only some of them are not traders beyond being gold bugs). Regarding the question in the OP, we basically already have three spheres, i.e. Bitcoin gambling (as mentioned above), trading and banking (including remittances). But these were available as soon as Bitcoin got some traction in 2010, but since then nothing has been added to this group of applications, so it is really hard to say

Nowadays i dont know what anyone would use bitcoin for  other than for speculative reasons. It gains value because a lot of people now see it as something they can buy into and earn money on. I mean being realistic, at this rate its certainly never going to be used as a currency and it doesnt really offer anything better over its competitors anymore. I can send paypal payments with no transaction fee and it arrives as soon as i send it,Non reversible payments arent going to sway people into swapping from banks/credit cards/paypal and some might even be put off by it.  Those who hold gold may buy into it if it becomes stable enough with much slower rises and drops in price but the majority of people arent going to buy into it when there are no real advantages.

We can consider that gambling and darkest spheres of the Internet is a success. The next step is the online shopping for non-physical goods, then physical goods. What will go next, I do not know.

Its use will expand first in the online shopping business, in fact there is already a considerable number of website owners making this happen. After this we will see a number of physical stores using it. I think that influential people in the technology sector will also play an important role in this, especially if their companies start to pay their employees in Bitcoin.

There are currently thousands of service providers offering Visa/Master cards and there are bunch of other payment methods or E-cash that are more acceptable than bitcoin worldwide, what I'm trying to say is why would you want to be on hold just because some company doesn't accept bitcoin and stay behind the modern world? best thing we can do is to exchange our btc to those fiat based payment processors and use them to do our shopping and purchase whatever we want.
Selling btc for local currencies are very easy, if people couldn't do that then we'd have some serious problem.

of course online shop and all online payment method. then offline shops will be interested to apply such thing in their shops. imo. just like the restaurants or goods shop. and I think the next one will be university because here in my country, we need to transfer the tuition fee via bank.

The most common thing to happen in bitcoins is being accepted on online shops before being accepted in physical markets in ourcountry land.But pretty sure that will take alot of time to be fulfilled.

Yes I agree, thats the common things to happen but shops here in my place were not yet adopting it right now, I only saw one convenient store has bitcoin cash in option but doesn't knew the bitcoin payment options that can be paid for every goods. For now maybe it was just starting but it could wait time to be implemented here in my country, and that would be exciting to happen for our place soon.

If we want to see bitcoin accepted everywhere we need to eliminate some problems first:

- there is no enough network capacity to process all transaction in case of major adoption spike
- using bitcoin is still problematic because you either need to use an exchange or will be limited to very few "direct buy" options
- bitcoin adoption is at the moment 99% online thing, how many brick and mortar businesses accepting  BTC do you know?

Bitcoin won't replace fiat. The reason why is because Bitcoin needs the cashflow in order to be worth something. Nobody want's Bitcoin if it is worth nothing, BTC isn't even backed by anything...just data and that data could get wiped within nano-seconds if there was an attack.

Unlike Gold that is backed by Gold and the limited quantity, people will find it too late to purchase when there isn't any in demand. Bitcoin is worth nothing, the price per Bitcoin is just a mirage. Warren Buffet is right in a sense.

Also the block size debate still not finish yet and the delayed transaction..
Unlike before that we can receive bitcoin in fast few minutes we are halving a big problem with the issue of delay or slow transaction to confirm..
People are always looking for instant. they want bitcoin for other features like sending bitcoin to other country.. its more fast than the remitances.. but buying in online still not instant unlike using paypal that you can pay on time.

I guess the online shopping would be the first one to adapt bitcoin as a payment when we are going to buy something online, which really sounds great if this thing would really happen in the near future, and the next thing for sure is that everyone would use bitcoin as the main currency that we are all going to spend on our every day living. Bitcoin will be accepted all over the world because of its greatness.

Though it will take some time for this to happen, because the Government will not just allow it easily to be use by the people on different countries all over the world. For the Government, bitcoin is poison to them, because they can't touch it, and can't steal it because we have our own wallet and privacy.

I think Bitcoin is not yet popular anywhere but, we we are it is about going mainstream.Take note that Japan has already approved bitcoin as a mode of payment or legal tender and so with Philippines. We are expecting other countries to follow also.The news 5 years and so are exciting for bitcoin.

Bitcoin is a digital currency known as the best in the world, let it remain to be like that. If bitcoin present as a means of payment in real world, it would disrupt balance of existing financial. centralization of currency required for identity of each country (FIAT).

I mean, bitcoin entitled to engage in any business, but should remain in path of digital technology.

the trend of online shopping it is increase day by day even in backward area. and i am hopeful that majority of people will be using bitcoin for online service and in some place where even in local shops the facilities of bitcoin are present to use it in local shops also.

Still it is much popular in many countries, very few countries are accepting. But there are many countries who are afraid of bitcoin because it may leads to distress in their economic field. Even many government are afraid to make bitcoin as one of the payment option, May be in next 5 years we can see many countries will start using bitcoin.

A while ago, I would have said any sphere where cheap micro payment were used, but lately with the scaling problems and the spam attacks on the Blockchain increasing transaction fees, I think this is not applicable any more. SegWit and the Lightning network is not getting traction and that was supposed to solve the scaling problems.

Bitcoin will have to settle for a store of value and commodity trading to survive and this will not be sustainable when block rewards halving eliminates the block rewards over time. ^hmmmmmm^

Bitcoin haven't reached every place. Bitcoin usage and acceptance is found high in ecommerce. Mostly on digital goods highly available. Slowly as the volatility is decreasing merchants are showing interest to accept bitcoin into their business. Soon by the next halving we can expect around 25% of people using digital currency.

Honestly bitcoin is not in everywhere. Even if you say that, most of people in the world doesn't know about bitcoin. Just ask your neighbors for it. For now, bitcoin is touching society with Information Technology (IT) knowledge. At least they use Internet or smartphone.

some online services and shop already adopted bitcoin as payment ( like VPN, Hosting , domain , etc ) i think when bitcoin already spread we can use it everywhere if they accept it. just need more time

well fiat is backed by the printing machine and its inflationary system, if they need more fiat they just print more and create more debts out of thin air, there is no limit to this

and it's not supply and demand that give value to fait, fiat has an inititial value set by the governments, this is what make it very centralized it's 100% controlled

Not yet, really. Here in our country there are lots of people who dont really know what bitcoin is. May be if someone told them they will know.
Some of the people here want to earn money and if maybe there are someone that introduce bitcoin to them and they knew that everyone can earn from it, they will maybe change their minds and learn to earn some bitcoins.

whatever it is, it's going to be online.
and it has already started, we can see lots of places online that accept bitcoin as payment aka as currency.
some of them are old and big companies such as steam (the gaming platform) and some of them are big new services such as Gyft and some are smaller services that shaped up to give services to people online.
there are some offline things you can find too, such as coffeeshos, restaurants and other businesses accepting bitcoin but they are too little and in certain countries.

Better if bitcoin would have the online shopping and hopefully here in my country,there's a system that bitcoin can pay  the fast food chain for less hassle.

But before that, bitcoin must meet worldwide and people should recognize it .Then after that let's take  the next step for adaption.

yes this one is a fact.When bitcoin is officially accepted on bigger markets online or on physical markets then thats the right time to call bitcoins as a major currency because thats the time that bitcoin can actually battle with fiat on  market based.Bitcoin in this time was still not very well knowned even if bitcoins popularity is in the most.

It will most likely affect miners, not Bitcoin as such

If mining (as we know it today) becomes no longer profitable (e.g. due to halving), miners will start leaving en masse. That would likely cause an avalanche effect with price dropping seriously, but after a few weeks the mining difficulty readjusts until it becomes profitable to find new blocks again (and thus support the Bitcoin network ticking). Ultimately, it may be possible to mine new blocks even on typical computers, so there shouldn't in fact be long-term issues with future reward halvings

Well if will happened our lives will change forever because of online shopping using bitcoin as cash and also you can easily pay easy to a restaurant or any kinds of eatery and the tax of your electricity will automatically get your amount of bitcoin and decrease it for taxation bitcoin can easily make your lifestyle easy and unstressful its even worth earning for :D bitcoin in the future will be glorious on accomplish everywhere you want :D and make life easy and good :D

Out of your opinions I can assume that soon bitcoin will be able to conquer web world and businesses related to internet but I strongly believe that it won't replace fiat in our everyday life aspects, such as bills, food, transport etc.

No, the base of btc is internet,but still have many people cann't access to internet!

i think many others also agree on this. bitcoin can not conquer fiat world and replace it completely and will always remain option number two in the real world.

but it can easily replace fiat when it comes to online payment. because all the options we have in online payment are bad compared to bitcoin. they all lack security, privacy and if fees don't go high we can still consider bitcoin to be cheaper.

I dont think so that bitcoin would replace fiat in the future and even how bitcoin would progress it would really remain as an alternative and theres no chance to place on main currency because government will surely create their own e-currency thats why bitcoin couldnt be consider anytime.

online shopping is the best industry to dominate,this is a multi billion industry and Bitcoin dominate this industry,they are definitely arrived and served it's purpose,next is online banking another multi billion industry,but I don't know if it is possible.

Obviously, since Bitcoin has been categorize in online industry, well of course all online business in this world it will surely adapt the features concept of bitcoin, then it will be follow by the different remittances all around the world, and all banks too, together online shopping also.

Yes bitcoin will be a great currency in the future, but it is still in the early stage of adoption, I think the main target of bitcoin will be e-commerce or online shop, purchasing things online using bitcoin has eliminate the used of identity and bitcoin has become global currency for online payment so I think bitcoin is very suitable for online purchasing that doesn't need the immediate confirmation

Basically any place that accepts current money would accept bitcoin at some point if it reaches the point that its valued the same as money and trusted the same. Technology is progressing so digital cash is the cash of the future shops for sure

Bit coin is fast growing everywhere now.
Yeah even in remote part of the world today have get the swear of btc.
Online transaction everywhere accept bit coin. So bit coin has an upper hand today.

Almost all spheres of life will adapt bitcoin. Bitcoins movement has no focus it is not fixed and in every sectors a small transaction that uses bitcoin is occurring daily. We have now schools, restaurants, charity, churches, taxi companies, hotels and others sectors in the society have started to accept bitcoin in the miniscule level. But possibly the major activities of bitcoin that will soon emerge will be the business sector and we are referring to commercial shopping centers.

Well,  not yet. And it needs many more years to reach that point. Merchants are not understanding the profit of using Bitcoin as a payment gateway. Bitcoin need more advertisement and popularity in the business world to make that happen.

Yes, most people voted currencies Bitcoin is the future.
To turn Bitcoin becomes the currency of the future, first, it should we use in everyday transactions, namely buying and selling online. Online trading activities on the site will promote currency Bitcoin becomes more popular and more widely known. I think the online sales site is the best promotion of the moment.

Yeah, it's not that I don't realise that bitcoin has played an extremely important role in some people's lives and it has made certain moves to develop over a long period, it's just that how bitcoin works is quite different from what we call fiat money. And people have got used to with fiat coin for ages and systems have been built based on fiat money so it's a daydream to say that bitcoin will completely replace fiat coin, at least for now.

Bitcoin is used in online shopping mostly and I suppose this is why satoshi invented this currency.
But most of the online shops like amazon didn't say yes to bitcoin yet

foods stores should be the first because the main needs for human is foods and people could not survive without foods and if food stores in the entire world accept bitcoin as the payment i think it like dream comes true to bitcoin users because it makes bitcoin popular and maybe the government would regulated it

I don't think it will help in any significant degree

I guess many online businesses are perfectly aware of Bitcoin and possibilities that accepting payments with it could provide. It seems that they don't accept Bitcoin because of two major reasons. First, Bitcoin is not accepted by most governments as a legal payment method for most merchants (barring exporters) since it is treated either as a commodity or foreign currency (which is usually not allowed as a legal payment). Second, Bitcoin price is volatile so it makes no particular sense for merchants to accept Bitcoin if they could just accept dollars

Agree theres too many to list since theres a lot of sections does bitcoin could possibly be used specially on online transactions and any other means which involve peer to peer transfers.if adoption would increase even more we could witness more on bitcoin development.

The electronic stores and places were already the first ones to actually adopt it seriously, the biggest shops like amazon and ebay haven't, but it is going solid in that direction.
Physical adoption is minor right now, people don't change to new things quickly and would need time to adapt and take something offering better services than traditional [money], BTC does offer that for both consumers and merchants..

everyone have their own field, traders are reluctant about the price of bitcoin. i think if the price of bitcoin will remain constant then they will certainly take more and more interest in bitcoin. but i think it still require some more time.

You mention that Bitcoin is not accepted as legal payment by governments, thus most merchants are not able to accept it as legal payment. But what if they make use of a service like Bitpay?
They would receive the payments in fiat currency, so it would be legal then, or not?

Another factor would be that the cost of implementing Bitcoin payments and the support for it is greater than the possible profits to be made from that.

I think the main problem is the demand/buyer. I'm sure some merchant aware about bitcoin and I'm sure they will interest, so they will learn more, but the main problem is after the merchant implement bitcoin into their shop, people around not aware or even not interested to bitcoin(could be to lazy to understanding/self-taught), i think it's not just advertising, the education is important too.
It's happens to my local machine shop which accept bitcoin, the uses of bitcoin for transaction very rare.

I do know and have concerns about the volatility problem of Bitcoin. But if merchants start using Bitcoin as a payment gateway through the services provided by Bitpay or likely sites then it will obviously increase the popularity and usage of Bitcoin in a wide range.
I have seen some Logistics and travel agencies started using Bitcoin as their payment gateway through service providers, that will encourage the users to go for Bitcoin than fiat. 

So bitcoin is in baby stage for many people Hardly 1% of the total population knows about bitcoin in my country so when there is such type of low rate adoption so bitcoin accepting service will also be low. But if government make it officially legal coin then adoption will increase and then we could say yes bitcoin is everywhere.

Yes i also consider bitcoin as one of the major currency in the future since it gives more benefits, like of course in earning extra money, the freedom that we can get from it, every transactions we've done in bitcoin(easier and convenient way) also first things first bitcoin can change our lifestyle like how to manage our time(time management), efforts and just adjust everything to fit the things everyday

you said very accurate, current, Bitcoin is little known, the main reason is that the government is not legitimate it, if it is accepted by the government, the people will use such as the common currency, it can grow than. Therefore, the government is the direct cause of the development. I hope Bitcoin will be accepted worldwide

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If we arise the idea of paying everything via electronic devices, we must also take into account "Least Developed" and fourth world countries where modern technologies aren't developed properly.

Initially Bitcoin only growing rapidly in developed countries, but now there is everywhere, this progress is running normally.

"Onelife, onecoin" very successful in Africa, though wrapped in HYIP. In a third country/fourth, all understanding bitcoin begins with gathering business/member get member, and doesn't require online (only a few people who should be online), and as a result almost all of them can buy supplies pc/internet on their own. So all will automatically fill, we shouldn't be confused, They are in third country/fourth that will find answers themselves.

There are still places that is unreached by Bitcoin.  Even in the main city of my country, seldom have known bitcoin and more rare are the people who actually use it.  One of the reason is that, Bitcoin are used mainly for trading and profit earning, while it would spread faster if used by merchants.  But due to the fact that transaction confirmation speed sucks, merchant can't do anything but to wait till the problem with confirmation is fixed.

As of now we are still just few who knows about bitcoin even we are growing rapidly do you think more people are staying in bitcoin.. they are also decreases not only getting more bitcoin holders there are also people who are just staying away in bitcoin after they experience bad things about bitcoin..

About what bad things you are talking about ? Is it investment losses due to bitcoin fluctuation or bought bitcoins but unable to spend it due to unable to find a merchant in local area ?

It could be anything but definitely it is not due to basic bitcoin ecosystem's concepts. So definitely those people will get back to bitcoin if they have experienced any bad things. When bitcoin is getting mass adoption it will be there in every part of this world so everyone will start using it for sure.

Maybe it's true but it requires not a little number of years ;D I don't think population of poor countries (I mean the level below average point) will wait for it.

It's normal for the community here to think bitcoin will be the future currency because that's what they want it to be happen.  The first thing will adapt for the advertising companies that in line with online business, then second was the online shopping in the internet. then to follows is the corporate companies in the world.

It will take more than a year for people to use bitcoins I've seen many people still doesn't even know how to use bitcoins or how to use wallet or maybe they're afraid to loose money as bitcoin is digital currency you can't blame anyone if your bitcoin is lost so it will take some time.

Hey not 1 year but it will take more then 10 yrs for every one to use bitcoin and its technology, as most of them are still not familiar with internet and its uses, but who knows in that 50% of them are afraid to use the online currency as they are afraid of fraud and misuse of it.

Especially in online payment systems can be used very comfortably. Today we buy everything online. For example, I can use bitcoin to migros accept payments. I can buy what I need for my kitchen shopping on the internet. Once payments made with Bitcoin have been approved, orders can be brought up to the door.

Bitcoin is maybe the future online payment processor , i agree that it is very comfortably use and some of online shops now are using bitcoin as their payment processor. In the future online shops will use bitcoin too , they will realize the comfortability of it.

That's another reason - trust. In our era when nobody is prevented from cyber offence we can not make guarantees that even our wallets are totally safe when even big companies experience problems from hackers.

Correct. Online Shopping that accepts bitcoin is not new to us, because some of the Online Shops are already accepting bitcoin as a payment, what would be better is when we could use bitcoin in our everyday expenses, and I am sure that would be awesome if that will going to happen in the near future, if, the Government allow such thing to happen.

Because until now, Government can't just accept bitcoin because they can't charge taxes to it, and I know that if they can't charges taxes to it, there is a possibility that a certain thing will fall down because there is no more taxes.

I don't think that it will take much time to got famouse . Because about three years ago in my community , No one knows that what is  bitcoin ? , Now about 80% people not in my community but in whole country knows that what is bitcoin , So I am guessing that it will not much time to get famous more for everywhere .
Second thing Earliar it was less secure but in the presence it is much secure then Earliar and also in the current time the price of payment transactions are more than was Earliar .
So.we can say day to day grow in the technology the network of the bitcoin going again more powerful and probably it will available everywhere in some years .

Bitcoin is just a baby you know, we need to get it growth bigger, it is quite popular in Japan and China, especially Japanese love bitcoin.

no doubt that bitcoin is not available everywhere because the main reason is the laws of the governments of different countries .
If you will try to study the legality of the bitcoin in the google than you will find that the most of the countries are not supporting bitcoin as official or safe to use ( since it is another matter that bitcoin is safe and trusted in our views ),.
So people are officially not accepting bitcoin due to this reason most of the places in the world are without bitcoin .
But I think it may be possible in the future those countries who banned bitcoin directly may remove thier ban from the bitcoin And also it is possible that the popularity of the bitcoin forced the every country to accept bitcoin officially .
If there I'd any probably my for this than it will happen in 4- 5years

At this time bitcoin is already starting to be used for online payments and this will continue to grow, even direct payments in some countries have started using bitcoin. But I think bitcoin might not be the main currency in the payment because every country has a currency of each, if used for payments bitcoin will become an alternative currency of each country. I actually prefer the bitcoin as a commodity, because fluctuations can be very profitable.

Most answers here will be speculative, However, considering the fact that no government will still not allow a decentralized virtual currency to control their local exchange. Some factors/purposes in the future will be unavoidable by govt about bitcoin or other new cryptocurrency. Factors/purposes that obviously fiat cant offer and they need. The interest will start with the first world countries down to the third

You can already see it happening and see which market niches are getting filled. Online gambling, porn sites (especially video chats), donations and charity, online stores, especially with software and electronics, street food. In the following years it will progress to most major online stores. I'd expect especially gaming platforms like steam and origin and online streaming (twitch) to go for it.

Well, bitcoin is not "starting" to be used for online payments but it's has been used for years ago. I would agree with your point that bitcoin shouldn't be used for the main currency of a specific country due to its fluctuation and the various problem it can bring. You may find that the fluctuation giving you a profit but if an organisation or an instance using bitcoin and then fluctuation occur, it's indeed a big problem for the whole instance's economy.

Bitcoin right now getting more and more acceptance in online stores as well merchants around the world too have given importance to bitcoin as a payment portal. This could soon reach more common men which is important for further growth of bitcoin. Bitcoin needs more time to reach more population, because few in every country use it and its spread only through users involved in it. Spreading is not happening through ads or other promotion methods.

The one and the most obvious ,online transactions! You can see it clearly that it is already established as a threat to PayPal and other online wallets.Which if extended further can revolutionise they way we make payments,traditionally using debit cards can be replaced by bitcoin transactions.Our lives pretty much revolves around that,everything else is secondary.

people are currently converting the local currencies to bitcoin and used it to transfer fund from one country to another country. Online shop are also trying as you can easily buy something especially services for bitcoin. Though bitcoin is still far to be use as a mainstream currencies very soon maybe before 2020 this might happen.

The next thing for bitcoin to reach is to begin to become a real competition to paypal and eventually dominate the online payments sphere before it moves down to being everywhere, by that point it will be obvious that bitcoin will reach its goal.

After online-payment sphere has been dominated by BTC,it will possibly reach every days stuff.. for example pay your coffee with btc at Starbucks
Or get your breakfast for some coins..
After that it will (hopefully) get accepted as payment for jobs.

Up to a point I agree with you but there cities somewhere in the world where are so bitcoin friendly someone maybe could live without the need of fiat. This one is Arnhem in Netherlands. A more interested user can read this interesting topic  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1787488.0)in the forum

Yes, that day is going to happen very soon. I believe that it is too early for expecting bitcoins to be everywhere of our life's need.

We must give some time for bitcoin system to get established in terms of forming its infrastructure like grooming itself to scale equivalent to visa cards. Like many people view, bitcoin is still a kid of internet, we can not expect an adults performances.

Wow its really amazing that there is a place on which you will just use bitcoin purely without the need of fiat. Hows that possible? Since we all know that its really hard to live without fiat since bitcoin isnt known all over the countries. This is great that theres a certain place which adoption of bitcoin is high.

My new job gave me recently a card for buying everyday lunch.
It also has an app, so you can pay with the "credit" card or with the app.
But I found most of the restaurant prefer the use of the card instead of the app.
What made me think how hard it will be to convert to bitcoin. If it's so hard for them to accept money virtually from an app, it will be even harder when it comes to bitcoin.

It isn't hard. There are ATMs that can do that, exchanged can accept Bitcoin and so on. It's not hard at all but it's rather unpopular, so not many people are able to use it. And because it's hard to be used for now, many don't want to include it in their businesses.

Bitcoin still far from "everywhere", there is still not many people know bitcoin, the one that they need to implemented is the shop that target the worldwide customers, because bitcoin was created to make us easier to do transaction globally

it does take some time to reach everyone. it happens like that but we already seen what can a new innovative idea can do to the market. WE are accepting bitcoin for trading and gambling and even at some porn sites but soon we can buy chocolates with bitcoins at any country just wait about 2-3years more

Bitcoin is already successful coin but it is not everywhere yet there still countries that don't accept bitcoin and don't want this digital currency therefore bitcoin can be use to anyonline investment nowadays and also in trading to make profit. In next few years maybe bitcoin will be accepted in stores soon and will adopt into our economy.

"Bitcoin everywhere" would not be that easy to happen because there are the Governments on the different countries around the world that won't allow that bitcoin could be use on all of the transaction that we are going to have on our daily lives, even though the majority of all the bitcoin users wants this to be happen, still the Government is our problem. In some countries, the Government sees bitcoin as a threat to them, because first, some of their people are using it in illegal activities like buying illegal stuffs online, like drugs and guns.

However, the chance of using bitcoin as the main currency is 60:40 in ratio, 60 percent of the population wants these to happen, and 40% are not sure about it, because not all of the people knows bitcoin.

No one spreading bitcoin anywhere apart this forum and btc related sites. We need bitcoin and its related services spreading in Facebook and WhatsApp. This way will achieve to make huge Bitcoin users in upcoming years. Adoption is best way to grow the value, this way would bump the value according to me.

The truth is bitcoin is not everywhere yet, because some people here doesnt know bitcoin. Not all people knows about bitcoin. There is a need to spread bitcoin of what its use and its function. Thus, so anyone can easily adopt bitcoin really.

Bitcoin not yet reach every where. Most of the people do not know about bitcoin. Some know  about this and do not know about its function. The people who know about this can spreed bitcoin. If something is advertised then only it will come for common use. 

Yes indeed online payments with bitcoin been used since a few years ago but only now starting to grow. Yeah right, if bitcoin is used as the main currency is very risky because of fluctuations is still high so it could be detrimental and harmful to the economy. So it is better if it is used as a commodity and if you want to use as the currency was only as an alternative.

The fact is bitcoin is missing promotion at higher level and once it is done it will come across through many people as of now bitcoin has not reached everywhere and it will take long time for that to happen as most of the people have not even heard about bitcoin yet.

Amph is right, you are wrong (and yes I do read the thread after I post in it just for fun).

Firstly, when did I say that FIAT was backed by anything? Fiat is printed everyday, if you don't think so then look at the website from the Treasury:

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Currency/Pages/edu_faq_currency_production.aspx

"During Fiscal Year 2014, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing delivered approximately 6.6 billion notes to the Federal Reserve, producing approximately 24.8 million notes a day with a face value of approximately $560 million."

You see, there is more than just a limited amount like you write.

You stated that I am wrong on so many points yet you don't point out any of the "Wrong" things that are in my post?

Sure, Bitcoin has a limited amount 21,000,000 million but it's worth nothing if it isn't connected to a Government Currency.

Gold could be bartered and there is a limited supply...Do the math.

Probably getting in Facebook will be more impactful than getting WhatsApp since persons seem to love Facebook a lot more than WhatsApp.

You don't have to worry about it. Now that I see that bitcoin will show growth of a much bigger and better than ever before. Because I already know that, bitcoin will make everyone interested and give benefits to everyone. No need to wait 2-3 years away, for if now bitcoin has not received the goods that we need then we can still buy it by selling bitcoin and buy it with the original money

I think  will only happen to pay for online !
In the real world, bitcoin don't as major currency, Imagine how cool it would be if you could pay on each transaction with Bitcoins,
But I believe many people will soon start receiving too

I think online shopping will
be the next who will fully adapt
bitcoin.

Bitcoins are not everywhere you are right about that, there is many more thing that has to be done before that happen. Bitcoin is not ready for mass adoption, with  block size, confirmation time, unstable fees that are going high without any announcement are just couple things that makes people nervous.
Look how much bitcoin made in less then 10 years of existence, for another 10 bitcoin will be much more then it is now, so patience my friends, I'm sure bitcoin will be fine.

Think it will take a couple of years for Bitcoin to be used world wide and be accepted all across the markets. Right now, the products that you can buy is a bit limited to just electronics and digital good.  A few more thing can be bought but it's very selective. Hopefully by 2018 -2019, we get to be more retailers and distributors get involved with Btc. We have a part to play in that as well by educating the vendors about BTC.

I guess, those who are totally technology enthusiast who have an online shopping can have the open mind to accept bitcoin as their payment yet it will be implemented if his onlone shop is world wide I guess, because locally it is not much introduced by the users.

It seems like that certain food places already accept BTC. So I would imagine that anywhere within shopping region is where it would start and maybe eventually big companies would start accepting BTC. Its actually quite outstanding that something like this could come to a reality I would hope to see it too! I don't think much would change however it would all be the same business money first then product. Sure its a slight easier way to pull off a scam but it will get investigated more into being it a legitimate business.

The local online shops will be the first one adapting this kind of things since it revolves in the internet.
I would not include gambling in everyday life so I think groceries and shops at malls will follow considering they dont want to lose in those online shops.
Gaming payments for mall items will also be included or applications that needs payment.
We can also add up our bills to be paid in the internet through bitcoin for convenience.

yes the technolgy is still in early stage and not many people know about the technology and to spread awareness we bitcoin lover should refer our friends and family memebers to use the technology then we will have bitcoin everywhere

I agree with you mate, we, the primary users of bitcoin must advertise or introduce this to other people, because even me I cannot see that bitcoin is everywhere, though the US already exposed the use of bitcoin publicly but then it is not that enough.

You know guys once we help this bitcoin to be known, we also get the benefits of this action
like if we introduce this to our friend, we do not know they might invest high amount of money to it and so the demand will rise together with its value.
Even small steps can make big difference.

Yes, I think one day bitcoin will be the major currency of future. Maybe after 10-20 years, As we see bitcoin price increase more and more day by day.
Nowadays, there is many gambling sites which accept bitcoin, or in general cryptocurrency, so the next step. I think it is online shopping. There is some site accept bitcoin like a method of payment. In the future maybe we can pay everything by bitcoin. for exemple in restaurents or real shops.

Hmm, the first target will be online payment. Bitcoin is created as a digital currency so of course it should be a payment method, starting with online things. Then from the online section of the shop, they may add bitcoin payment for the "offline" section though this will need a lot of time.

To proof you wrong :D
I started using bitcoin after 2-3 weeks when i knew about it.
But it varies for different people.
However you cannot predict 100% true

Bitcoin for us everyday users of it has started to change and to shape our life differently. Now I don't go anymore to the store to buy PC games, also I don't go to the bookie of my neighborhood to place some bets or I don't use any FIAT online bookies which requires tons of documents. I buy everything that I need in my digital world with bitcoin.

Bitcoin will be the major currency of the future. Any institution (i.e banks) who will fight it are destined to lose. I have blind faith in bitcoin as it has improved my life a lot for real.

Bitcoin technology has not been welcomed in other parts of the world as monetary regulators like the central bank don't want to lose control to it and resort to banning it. Security wings see bitcoins compromising a countries safety as it can be used to fund animal, human or drug traffickers making it difficult to track them. Unless a legal frame work is put in place to recognize it, more people will use it.

Probably, all related business in online marketing industry is the primary will adapt bitcoin of course together the advertising company, or the E-commerce business too. Secondary is the traditional concept of business will follow to adapt it also.

Well right now I can use my bitcoin to shop online and to reload my cell and pay some bills through online payment,
What I want to experience in bitcoin is to go shop in a supermarket and pay with my bitcoin hope that we can do it soon.

I think it's already possible, but you would need a credit card connected to Bitcoin wallet. I saw a guy on youtube paying McDonalds with Bitcoins using this system. Now there are few people using this, in the future there will be more adepts of Bitcoin payment systems like this, needing of course a middle man business.

That kind of payment is good, but in the end you need it to make simple. I think the wallet is too techy for 'normal' people. So when the wallet is improved and some big companies like google, wall mart etc. accept bitcoin, the road to adoption will be clear and open.

It is really difficult to assume whether you are into bitcoin and with the open ledger you can very well know the amount of volume traded per day .Bitcoin is still in its infant state and with time it will reach more people and that is what  i am expecting to see.

well, I agree. Bitcoin has been finished its first target successfully and now everyone is hoping that Bitcoin will be accepted for offline payment. It will be very great if there is a store or a shop accept Bitcoin in the physical world so that we can use Bitcoin in order to make it stronger and stronger. No doubt that Bitcoin is everywhere. However, we have to wait for a long time for Bitcoin to be accepted widely

This is true but sometimes I wish I were not so polarized about what is best for bitcoin with so many possible solutions, I think it will be better we united with each other and decide to follow a single solution even if it is not the optimal one.

I think bitcoin is not good in offline.. it will be just the same as virtual card online or prepay cards and reloadable that you can use for buying service or product online that accepts cards.. this is will be can help other people to get more shops or services online to accept bitcoin. via virtual cards or credit card..
But i think there are some places like brazil that has 100 stores or more that i heard are accepting bitcoin locally and there is no offline its still need online payment processor. .

Its actually not yet. Most of the people here in earth doesnt really know what Bitcoin is. The only reason why is because they dont yet have Internet in their country or most probably in their places. Actually we can also give them the opportunity to know what Bitcoin is. But the problem is that, we need an Internet connection to communicate and also to teach them.

It is just a hard task to make it come true. We are trying to enlarge our bitcoin here individually so if we are to be help each other that might cause more trouble.
That is what scams do. Telling people that they will work with you then when the fund grows they run away. Same with hyips and other scam investment. Sometimes they sell some products. Beware of that.

I believe Bitcoin is in every country but as to whether it is everywhere(inner city's, hinterlands, ghettos, etc.) I can't tell because it wouldn't be possible to even distribute bitcoins everywhere since there are just about 21 million bitcoins in the world minus the lost ones and Satoshi's cut.

maybe is transaction as payment , this is a first function from bitcoin has been craeted ..
we can use bitcoin as payment in store accept bitcoin

Yes, it is a big NOT YET, because of the limit of accessing bitcoin of people, not everyone can access it and oopen their laptop cellphone or CPU at home to earn and get bitcoin, like in hillside and seashore houses. And also introducing bitcoin to our nativesman, which we are lack of.

Yes bitcoin can be used for payment method and the easy way is making payment on online shops
although there are problem because the fees transaction is expensive just for making payment couples dollar
and right now in my opinions the bitcoin is still not suitable for making transaction especially small amount of transaction.

Bitcoin may be the only payment system for internet environment in the future. It may even be an official currency for online transactions. Because of the advantages it provides, it can eliminate other payment systems.
Companies will want to use bitcoin, especially since they are not taxed.

I seriously doubt bitcoin will be huge when it comes to online shopping, it may be successful with major retailers like Amazon, but even in this case I'm skeptical.

People can't even keep their email accounts safe and remember their password, imagine keeping private keys safe...

Plus there is the issue of fees, it is much more expensive to use bitcoin than Paypal, and there are no benefits in using bitcoin like consumer protection or free returns when compared with Paypal which is a major online shopping payment system.

Yes bitcoin could eliminate other payments specially with internet network system like payments from online btc wallets now available with online bills payment, loading mobile numbers, money transfer and many more. This is still developing new plans in my country and I don't exactly knew that this is adopted with other countries, or maybe few are aware of this in my country today.

Company will not be able to evade government taxes, especially for companies that have an official office. Bitcoin will shift some payment processors such as PayPal and Neteller. There is also a big problem in online shopping in future if there is a very massive pending transactions, blockchain often this experience and makes users annoyed.

Bircoin is in everywhere if people want to use it but so many people still dont know what is bitcoin and where we can they use it or so many people know what is bitcoin but they dont know how they will use it also some country dont alow to use bitcoin system in bank because of more people cant buy bitcoin or cant exchage bitcoin easy  . If this problems can be handle  , i m sure everybody will want to use bitcoin and they will use it .

Well Bitcoin is money and assuming it can be a big thing in the near future transaction with buying and selling will be the first to ensure to adapt it and I think it is right now and I think in that said future everywhere you go you can definitely can use your bitcoin in any transaction available and a much larger scale of buying and selling all over the world.

There are a number of web wallets available to everyone that do their job pretty well

And most of them pay the transaction fees for their clients at that. But please don't tell me that it is against the principles of Bitcoin or anything to that tune to use these wallets. It should be evident and straightforward that the people you are talking about (which, according to you, "can't even keep their email accounts safe and remember their password") wouldn't be using Bitcoin anyway (if there were no web wallets around), whether such use follows Bitcoin principles or opposes them

That will get resolved eventually, right now I don’t thinks it is such a huge issue because bitcoin is still relatively small compared with paypal, if bitcoin was the same size as paypal then we will  have a real problem.

For now i am not halving this problem since our local wallet here are upgraded with vcc right now we can shop every where online we can also use the vcc in amazon.. or any website that accepting credit cards..
Unlike before that honestly it is hard to find a good website which is accepting bitcoin. the alternative is vcc that we can reloadable..

Of course since bitcoin is an online opportunities to anyone, all online business will be shift into bitcoin, from marketing online, shopping online, online banking and others will massively adapted by it.

i am sure that in future we can see this after bitcoin getting approve from the government but until that time, we only use bitcoin for another purpose like doing trading for example. and i think if we do this from now on, then we can prepare ourself before we can see bitcoin is available in every where.

Bitcoin as a currency is far from where it needs to be. But as a speculative investment, it has gone leaps and bounds since its introduction and the potential to reach new highs is looming. Mass adoption might not really take place, even fifty years from now, because people are not really convinced of its ability to deliver as a currency. If that is the case, we would have seen more shops and outlets accepting bitcoin than what we are seeing today.

Not yet, but many people especially from online related jobs like freelancers, e-stores are showing big interest in the popularity of bitcoins, they are still in the process of learning the importance of bitcoin and how it could simplify money transactions especially sending and receiving, remittances as an alternative using btc.  

Now bitcoin has good position and i hope it will be achieved more successful places in future, and in this time, we use bitcoin in everywhere but only online. Usually we used bitcoin for amount transfer and paying bills, online shopping, play gambling, so everything is possible with bitcoin but only on online. 

Yes of course bitcoins is everywhere but not everyone knows about it that's why the entire world has not bitcoins. The problems can be the access of Internet but even if we have Internet we don't know about bitcoin, this is not really famous. For example me, someone told me about it but I would never know if he didn't.

Well, my real world life is not fully attended by bitcoin. yeah, but I guess when I open internet, everything just looks bitcoin, and everywhere, my social friends discuss bitcoin. I guess just takes some time for bitcoin could arise and affect us anywhere.

Bitcoin is everywhere you got the point but not all are accepting bitcoin as payment look at the amazon and ebay they are still not accepting.. that is why we have vcc releases right now that actually are reloadable and can be use to buy online shopping anywhere.

It is quite everywhere, but limited in my region. Physically it is presently not possible to use it, for online transaction, many accepts but many doesn't, they fear the value up and down. As these get sorted, it will be everywhere.

 ;D well don't laugh, but where I live (The Hague in The Netherlands)  there are a few take-out shops which already accept Bitcoin.
Every time I order a pizza or lasagna I pay with Bitcoins haha how cool is that?  ;D

Well I use my bitcoin as online payment for my bills and also for my load,
But I wish we can use it to pay for supermarket bills.

One currecny worldwide, no taxes or fee in transfer, easily transferable to any country instantly without any agent / fee. Which currency gives you all these features.  Only BITCOIN.

Although bitcoin not spread everywhere yet, but time is near when we shall see bitcoins in all places.

Software. BTC will become a generally accepted currency in software (including video games) markets. As a matter of fact, it is happening now and I think that it will continue happening in the future too. I think it because BTC is a virtual currency and fits well to buy virtual products with it. When it comes to physical products, orders could get complicated. However, BTC's technology, blockchain, surely will thrive in every business area.

Yup certainly websites like G2A is accepting bitcoins which is quite good news but the prices on the website or 20-30 % high.
There are some pros and cons of bitcoin.

Bitcoin does have a lot issues to handle at the moment, how a company can accept bitcoin as payment with such delay as 1 day or even more? No one will raise the fee to make it confirm into the next block, lets suppose you wanna to buy something that cost 5 dollars. In the general bitcoin isnt mass adopted yet and merchants are working with paypal, debit and credit cards bitcoin isnt an option.

this make sense bitcoin must have developed its transactions delay that takes 1 day, and plus that identity were unknown we were unable to access if the people were reliable.

the bitcoin merchants keep increasing , and almost on anything we can buy it with bitcoin ,
just the matter of the time , when we can go anywhere and found a shop adopt bitcoin ,
for now it is really hard to find one in real life ,
i just predict it wouldn't happened in the near future.

Developed its transaction? what a joke, just find your answer in here. so try to complain to the miners to make them go to the SegWit.

You will see the transaction take a short time.

Yes, exactly, one of the reason of why bitcoin is not yet everywhere it is because we only have few millions of it compare to the population of the world, but not only that it is also because we have lack of introducing bitcoin everywhere, and the limit of accessing bitcoin everywhere. Because the number of bitcoin can be increase once demand rises, producing coins will be follow.

I think bitcoin has not been introduced all over the globe .western countries have accepted bitcoins and there are quite a few bitcoin atms out here .but if u compare it with developing countries like india , here people have not heard about bitcoins at all and even if some people have heard , they are mostly college students. There are not many companies for bitcoins also , so popularity and usage is a long way to go.

bitcoin acceptacne, could have done by simply including a bitcoin core into the screen payment system stores are using, however, all of them would have to accomplish all the blockchain. since part of them would not able to do that, or they were weighting too much of their profit, they decided not. like in Hong Kong, accepting bitcoin could have made instantly - they don't want to.

What you are saying possible. Before government should accept and make as legal in the country. Then only we can use the bitcoin payment system. Still you can find the online stores such as purse.io, chepair and etc.

For some people, gambling is part of their everyday life, they literally can't live if they don't gamble or bet in some way. Which means that Bitcoin has already been adapted into some people's lives.
But for other people, Bitcoin has also been adapted into online shopping as well as real life shopping which is really great. I don't know what will adapt Bitcoin next, but hopefully it makes Bitcoin even more popular.

As you can see the traders / investors is the first one to adopt bitcoin first.  The technology sector were the late one to adopt it since they are hessitant about it and think of Bitcoin as Ponzi scheme since the first one will sell their holding to the new investor in an inflated price.  I have talked to all my programmer/IT friends and all of them have the same insight about BTC whenever they see the world "highly volatile.

yes for now bitcoin is not everywhere yet like you said it's because not all people know about it
and for your question what the kind of everyday life needs which will adapt bitcoin
the answer is gambling, everyday bitcoin user who love gambling will use it to gambling and the second is online shop

I think that implementing bitcoin is not just about installing it to your company and then just let it be available for anyone. As virusasog said, when you're going to implement bitcoin as one of your company's currency then you must think about all the regulations regarding bitcoin.
Some companies also said that they're planning on accepting bitcoin in the future but it really takes a long time to be realised, they're thinking of business perspective and laws.

Bitcoin is not yet everywhere because there still some countries that don't accept bitcoin and also there is a lot of people who didn't know what is bitcoin yet and what are the advantages of using bitcoin. If bitcoin will be popular and introduce in different social medias then it can easily spread to anywhere and soon you will see bitcoin everywhere.

yeah true. before bitcoin users scattered around the world and spread to remote villages. I think bitcoin not be everywhere, probably just in a few places. which are the basis of bitcoin

I think you can really see bitcoins all over the world the problem is not a lot is using it physically and there are just a limited merchant online that are accepting bitcoin I really think that bitcoin can attain the position of one currency in the future but for now it will be very difficult because the government doesn't want it cause bitcoin does not have tax and it is not controlable for them.

Even we have many users now all around the world using bitcoon, but still too many people don't know and dont have any ideas what bitcoin is, there are lot of people need to learn more about how to and what is the use of BTC.

I can speak about my country, Croatia.
We don't have so much users and only a few offline merchants accepts bitcoin for payment.
Recently, we got 2 btc ATM's and it's all.
So, I don't have much options what to do with my btc funds.
I can't spend it offline, only online or keep all funds in the wallet.
Hopefully it will change soon.

it is sad to here that. I also face with the same issue. However, I am having more than 20 Bitcoin. Bitcoin is not only a type of currency, we can consider it as an investment which can bring profit to us. The prices has jumped to $1200 and I believe that it will continue to rise. Storing Bitcoin can make Bitcoin become stronger

Well if you don't know what to do with your bitcoins you can exchange them for fiat currency right? I have a few bitcoins and sometimes I exchange a bit of them to pay for the bills and groceries and stuff like that. Most of them I keep in my wallet for long time investment.

yes the main reason is that bitcoin is still not yet as popular everywhere. i think still only 1 % of all the population of the world is using bitcoin or know about it while still majority of the people still do not even know about bitcoin and therefore hey are not using it.

It's not because only that, most of the people still prefer using fiat over bitcoins even though they actually know about bitcoin and there might be a lot of reasons for that... First of all, fiat payments are accepted everywhere so you don't have to bother searching for special shops or something, moreover governments some time are against bitcoins so people are scared to use it. I think we just need some more time and bitcoins will be everywhere and people will use it all the time instead of fiat.

1% is too small and i think not all country. most of the bitcoin users i think are china.. and us well since those country are bing maybe only 1% are bitcoin users.. but this is not sure because bitcoin users are almost anonymous.. we do not know even the exact estimate if how many bitcoin users..

Fiat is an abstract concept as such

There is no just fiat, it is always a certain currency (e.g. US dollars, euro, British pounds, etc). If you are using a local currency (whatever it might be), you typically won't have any issues with buying usual daily stuff. But if you are traveling around the world, converting one fiat currency to another may give a lot of headache (if not butthurt), and this is where Bitcoin shines. You can access your bitcoins from virtually everywhere and convert them to whatever currency you may need at the moment. Basically, only the US dollar comes close to being more or less universally accepted across most countries

The biggest thing that matters is that people in the first world or most places that have any piece of plastic will rather opt to pay with said piece of plastic than try out something that they aren't even remotely close to being paid in. It's kind of a shitty situation regardless of how you look at it, since it takes an entire paradigm shift to change anything.

Online shopping. None physical services like subscriptions to ISP for internet cellphones etc etc. Will then move on to ordering online pyhical items and it will just roll on from then. More and more places will start accepting it in fear of being left behind and they need btc customers too they would not turn down money in any form.

Problem a lot merchants are facing is that they aren't familiar with how things work here in the Bitcoin world. They just look at the volatility and completely lose all interest in having Bitcoin as payment option within their business. If they knew that services such as BitPay exist, then they would see that there is no need to be afraid of the volatility anymore. Being charged just 1% per transaction is peanuts compared to what Visa and MasterCard are charging. Definitely an added benefit.

The future of bitcoin is big as of now it's value is changing/increasing each day so there is a high possibility that bitcoin will be known by all . And if it happened that is the time that many business will be open to accept bitcoin in shopping,payments or even lending. For know we can do many transactioin in bitcoin such as buying loads and paying bills but i know that bitcoin has a greater future and a brighter upgrade.

I don't really think that big online retailers like Amazon, Wal-Mart, iHerb, etc, are not familiar with these services. I guess their neglect of Bitcoin is primarily based on three points. First, they are too big while Bitcoin user base is, consequently, too small for them to bother about it. Second, the services you are talking about don't quite match their caliber either. They are mostly using Visa (and cronies) as well as PayPal as the payment processors for online purchases. And third (and this might be a decisive factor), there is no more or less established regulation of Bitcoin across different countries. I mean in some of them Bitcoin is effectively considered as an illegal means of payment, say, in China (though not outright prohibited), so it would give them a lot headache from the legal side of the matter

In short, Bitcoin is not yet quite on par with its bigger competitors (in respect to online businesses, at least)

Bitcoin has so much potential that it could be applied to almost everything. I think before anything else bitcoin could be a good way of paying salaries of employees due to its underlying technologies. For instance, the smart contract offers a great deal of improvement for employees making sure that they receive their salaries sufficiently and on time.

no its not everywhere right now. may be after 5 more years we will have bitcoin bitcoin in everyone's mouth instead of dollar  or whatever we have and local newspaper will  have pe to display bitcoin's exchange rate like other currencies.

It would take 5 years or more before the bitcoin will totally grow and be known by almost all people.
Little by little, day by day, more people get involved and become curious about bitcoin especially those interested in trading.
Hoping so that it would be displayed like other currency but the tendency for that is that the government might wanting to hold the bitcoin price.

In fact currently bitcoin is mostly use for online services while in few places may be use as fiat currency in local shops but not yet everywhere, because bitcoin service is only available where the users of bitcoin are more that other areas. Where the shopkeepers can understand that they can get some profit from bitcoin.

The future already came true. Look at how this currency has evolve Bitcoin has already been adapt with our daily lives it is already supported in some online stores in the web.
You can use it to buy some personal necessities, use it as payment to your internet provider, pay bills, buy gadgets or buy game credits your call.
And this doesn't stop here, in the future well see some innovations in bitcoin but first it needs to solve its current problems first.

For me, bitcoin is "almost" there in terms of usage and will be mass adopted slowly. There are still issues that need to be resolved however, like the block size, the transaction fees. With that said, if those issues mentioned are resolved price the prices of bitcoin stabled, I think bitcoin will be everywhere then.

you're tired of having to convince people around you that Bitcoin and Blockchain are technologies that have come to help the human being in his odyssey on planet Earth, you should look for cities where the digital currency is most naturally seen . San Francisco, New York, and London are good examples of cities in which Bitcoin is beginning to be part of the everyday lives of many people. The Nomad List, a site that lists the best cities to live and work remotely using a series of metrics such as income, safety, air quality, and internet speed, listed cities that are more Bitcoin-friendly.

Yes not yet. The world is still adjusting in technologies where some countries are still not allowing bitcoin in their country because of the fear of it may be the rival of their own currency. In cities it can be more popular because of developing technologies wherein people will always find new things about technology and on the internet. May 8n the near future some countries will completely adapted the bitcoin and make it as their currency (crypto currency).

All online shops and online based companies with terms or payment of credit items via internet ...

In the present era, Bitcoin, the fastest growing cryptocurrency, with its magic wand, converting millions of people into bitcoiner. Despite of the fact, bitcoin is not everywhere, it is still a internet money only, where you can sell or buy bitcoin, according to your profit but the increasing valuation of bitcoin, which is about $10k, signifies the very great scope for the bitcoin money, where people could do transactions for their daily life product with the bitcoin, and I could say with no wonder that I coming time, bitcoin would be used as money for having transactions.

Firstly - online shopping, lotteries, food delivery and so on. Secondly, loans and credits (if you manage to stabilize volatility).

Yes, I agree but the magic wand thing? Not. It has no power to end poverty by the way, Yeah it continue on increasing but it doesn't mean that bitcoin is like a magic wand. You can work with bitcoin anywhere but I dont think so if there is bitcoin everywhere. I guess it was just an internet money were you able to gain online not anywhere.

I think  will only happen to pay for online !
In the real world, bitcoin don't as major currency, Imagine how cool it would be if you could pay on each transaction with Bitcoins,
But I believe many people will soon start receiving too

yes bitcoin is not used everywhere in every transaction because it is not legalised in every country so the bitcoin is not used in every where

I think payment a bitcoin for online shopping is near for reality, I think it is a big help for those who are addicted in online shoppers. This would be the next target of bitcoin or maybe using bitcoin in groceries or small stores.  :D

Soon that will happen that whole world will switch to the bitcoin and this revolution has started in the first world countries, their citizens are making transactions online they are totally depending on bitcoin to pay each and every bill and soon whole world will be under the flag of bitcoin and for achieving such result everyone must play his role to tell people about this innovation and recommend them to use it for their sake.

Well I think in every country of the world few people there might have known about bitcoin as a cryptocurrency. But it will take a couple of years for Bitcoin to be adopted and used by up 50 percent of people the world wide and be accepted all across the markets. Right now, I know that the products that you can buy with bitcoin is a bit limited.

online shopping, paid online games, online gambling, and it can happen because of its very easy transactions. but I hope next is a good, not a criminal thing.

I think that first of all the international online store will go to bitcoins. It will be very convenient for the owners of these stores, and for the buyers themselves. And gradually bitcoin will penetrate into every sphere of our life.

Not much time has passed since the start of bitcoin creation. It is just beginning to show its full potential to the whole world. A little more, and it will be the most important, convenient, functional and popular currency in the world.

I'm sorry, fully potential for what exactly?

If you mean Bitcoin as of a means of exchange (means of payment), it is in fact quickly losing this capacity (if it hasn't already). Plainly speaking, it is no longer usable in such a way today since it has become prohibitively expensive and very inconvenient, to say the least. If you mean Bitcoin as a vehicle for speculation, it has long been there by now. It is just about more people finding out that they can speculate with it and earn handsome profits provided they enter the market at the right time

Its not the time? I guess your wrong. Its already time to see bitcoins full potential for the people to be encourage. Bitcoin is everywhere. Why I say everywher? ofcourse, you can work with bitcoin if you just have an internet and just think this, internet too is everywhere so it means bitcoin too. Working with bitcoin is risky, Yes it is but we must believe this if we really wanted to continue this one. Bitcoinis everywhere because technology right now too is popular, everyone already have a gadgets so there is no reason that they cant work it everywhere.

Bitcoin will be the next step of payment if it improve some disadvantages about transaction and fee ! Bitcoin will be overspread and become one of the most convenient payment and can be seen as real money or gold. Beside, i hope bitcoin will be accepted in many more countries than now because bitcoin can improve the quality of life if those countries have some law about bitcoin and legalize it, it will be easier for them than banned it but people still do it.

bitcoin can be everywhere, when everyone will recognize it and it will be solved everywhere...and at the moment it is impossible, because bitcoin is used only in certain layers of society

Yes bitcoin not everywhere yet. But next future will be everywhere i thought.
First, bitcoin will reach online shop and all about online payment. But now, bitcoin must change the time to confirm sending bitcoin and also reduce a fee before becoming a major currency.

I am agree with people, who think that first of all bitcoin will be user for only payments. I hope that after this someone create something like bank with cards for coins

banks and bitcoins incompatible lol

I believe that bitcoin will gain more and more popularity and mass adoption but later on other cryptocurrencies will be used daily as bitcoin is getting quite slow already.

I think bitcoin is useful as a medium of exchange or payment of online shopping between countries, because if using money the process is difficult because the inter-state differentiated by different currencies. and bitcoin I think can solve this problem, because in the future will be more people who do shopping online

I notice a lot of ICO project that supports the use of bitcoin in their transactions.  Not yet widely but eventually I think companies will be accepting bitcoin as mode of payment same as paypal amd credit card.

No it’s not true bitcoin is still not anywhere because bitcoin is trying to reached everywhere and very soon bitcoin will be everywhere because bitcoin have almost nine years and in this time bitcoin reached to many countries and believe me some of them are reached and they are really supporting bitcoin and this year countries are more increased as compare to last year and next year more countries are coming to join bitcoin because bitcoin is best.

The infrastructure for serving bitkoy as a means of payment is still in its infancy, so we can not pay for it right now in many cases. I think that in the first place bitcooney can be paid in online stores, retail outlets and service companies, make deals in bitcoins, especially when buying or selling real estate or other high-value goods.

Some of the government are banning bitcoins that's why bitc is not everywhere but if most of the people will really want to earn bitcoins then every will live easier today because the money that you will earn from campaigns is really worth working.

I think bitcoin has not spread widely among people. The first field that will adjust bitcoin and efficiently is the field of trade, because this field is the biggest role in the sale and purchase of public transactions.

I think soon the bitcoin will be more knowed because will be use for shopping online too and this will attract the curiosity of much other people

Hello! Unfortunately almost in 90% Vitalik Buterin says that he was create Ethereum block chain for technologies for logistic for making business better easily but for now it almost about speculations. In my country 90% know bitcoin 30% can explain what it is and how it work 10% use it.
As usually
1. Business
2. Logistic
3. Medicine
4. Service
I think almost all

Bitcoin does not exist everywhere because some of the governments in the country are avoiding it. Bitcoins has so many advantages if your going to hold it but they are saying that crypto currency are also the money of terrorist to buy guns or drugs and government are avoiding that.

I never consider bitcoin as a currency, because precisely it is rather complicated to spend it as such, I see it for the moment as a simple trading tools, an investment.

Not everywhere I don't believe in any statistic from Internet. How I can cheek it? Any statistic? Provided by who? Ok. I think all spheres + blockhain can make batter and it can be used everywhere

Maybe at this moment the knowledge about bitcoin is everywhere, being a mainstream especially in the world of investments, however its use in the real economy is still very restricted, so it does not seem that at least in a medium or short term we can see bitcoin being massively implemented as a means of payment or convenient currency, and it seems that its use has been relegated to a mere store of value.

I think bitcoin has not been introduced all over the globe .western countries have accepted bitcoins and there are quite a few bitcoin atms out here .but if u compare it with developing countries like india , here people have not heard about bitcoins at all and even if some people have heard , they are mostly college students. There are not many companies for bitcoins also , so popularity and usage is a long way to go.

Bitcoin has so much potential that it could be applied to almost everything. I think before anything else bitcoin could be a good way of paying salaries of employees due to its underlying technologies. For instance, the smart contract offers a great deal of improvement for employees making sure that they receive their salaries sufficiently and on time.

One of the main communities that bitcoin could directly affect would be online shopping. Many would switch to using btc for online transactions because it is easier to use.

In my opinion bitcoin will be a great currency in the future, but it is still in the early stage of adoption, I think the main target of bitcoin will be e-commerce or online shop, purchasing things online using bitcoin has eliminate the used of identity and bitcoin has become global currency for online payment so I think bitcoin is very suitable for online purchasing that doesn't need the immediate confirmation

I think bitcoin in the future can be used in necessities such as transportation, education and medical. This will help ease the struggle of people of paying through cash and going to accounts department of schools and hospital and not even spend time being on the line waiting to pay for transport fees. Just this easy.

Most of the members consider bitcoins as major currency of future. And online shoping will be the step after online gambling.

yes,we consider that bitcoin is a major currency in the future.Bitcoin i think it is not everywhere as of now maybe soon it is because as you can see not all the people using internet especially in urban area.so i say its not everywhere yet.

There are some countries where technology is not available for anyone and yes bitcoin is not everywhere but there are a lot of other things that are in the same situation. I think in time , bitcoin will be used by more and more people until finally we can be connected with anyone anywhere in a short time.

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   Bitcoin awareness is rising, technology is not present an ll parts of the wworld
but it will be. 10 years ago we did not have what we have now, in 10 years from
now we can sure count on more adoption.
   Bitcoins are not everywhere yet, I would say they will ee everywhere in short time
That must happen, people like Bitcoin and people see that Bitcoin can make things
online easier. Bitcoin is connected with internet and internet is more popular with
more people joining every year, many of them will want to have Bitcoins.

I must agree that bitcoin isn't everywhere yet. Yes it is currently present in most countries but let us remember that the term "most" doesn't mean "everywhere".
We have to take action because being in the cryptocurrency requires seriousness and dedication. We have to also promote bitcoin in our own ways to popularize these and be used EVERYWHERE.