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What do you use cryptocurrencies most often for? If you thought about what cryptocurrency you use the most and what your favorite/most often use case is for it, what would it be? Obviously if it's private and you don't wish to share that's fine, I'm just curious to see what's being used and where people go most often for purchases, maybe pick up some new websites to visit for stuff I haven't found yet, or just share some places with other users who don't know many places to spend at.

What would the websites be, or physical places you visit for your purchases? Anybody offer discounts for cryptocurrencies or anything special? Like, what is the drive that gets you to get and use cryptocurrency for a purchase over a credit card. Special things you can only buy with crypto's or special discounts or anything, or just for the ease of transferring funds mostly?


----Edit---- Adding an edit here, thank you everyone thats posting.
***To all those that mentioned they make purchases for various things, would you care to share actual websites you visit? Sharing the names/links. The purpose of my post was to get people discussing about where they transact and to make a recommendation of where they do like to visit so that other users can see new places where they can transact where they've never known they could before. Which, if you look in this thread you can see there are quite a few people posting in just this thread alone  that don't really know anywhere at all that they can go to transact with their cryptocurrency's.  So to all who mentioned what they like to make purchases on, could you make direct recommendations of what those sites are that you like to visit?****

 That was the purpose here, I gave one of my recommendations with Gyft  website.  So all of us to know where we can transact with our cryptocurrency's, let's help out those in this thread and that may read this thread find places where they can actually make purchases and utilize their cryptocurrency.

the use of crypto at the moment is for me to be able to transact with other companies and people that are the most common uses and often I use in the crypto world right now I think that is the use of crypto that I use

I would prefer to use cryptocurrencies as much as possible, if I Have the chance. It's somewhat an action to support crypto and believe that one day it would replace fiat in the future. For purchases, like online shopping, we have a company here in the country that allows users to have crypto wallets and it is accepted in some online shopping platform. So I get to use some of my cryptos to buy stuff from there.

I don't think there would be discounts on common sites that is initially not crypto accepting shop. I have purchased a bag using crypto; ever since it was low price, I value that bag now. I bought it around 1200+ BTC back then. So it's worth more now than it should be, but I don't regret it.

i think Bitcoin is a coin i use most. i often shopping online and pay by bitcoin

Bitcoin.

I can pay for p2p trades and the popular one is paying bills and can pay for shopping online which is very convenient even the product's worth $2, it's good as paying it through COD.

This might be ironic right now due to the huge price fluctuations, but bitcoin as a store-of-value. I'm very positive that with time, I assume bitcoin will attain a stable price; it's pretty much just a matter of 'when'. People will realize how good bitcoin is as a store-of-value(and as a currency), only when they actually experience economic crisis in their country. Of course using a store-of-value currency like bitcoin would kinda be pointless for people in countries like the United States, but for people in countries going through an economic shitstorm like Venezuela, bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are a godsend.

if I myself use the most often I do for crypto currency as an online transaction tool, because to shop online it's easy to make payments and fast too. therefore the crypto is very helpful for me to buy goods online with fast payment

We have a local wallet that allow us to use our bitcoin to pay for our bills, from credit card to electric, water and even internet and mobile phone load. So that's the best use case for me. I haven't try to purchase things online though, but I heard lots of websites accepting crypto like https://openbazaar.org/ and https://www.newegg.com/, and book flights in https://www.cheapair.com/.

I don't how weird this may seem but my most used cryptocurrency is Ethereum and my major use for it has been gambling, I'm not a gambling addict and I could have my Ethereum for several months or most times even convert my fiats into ETH not and decide not use them, but more often than I used it gamble on decentralized betting platform, and convert into BTC when I'm to gamble on BTC-only accepted platforms.



About 90% of the times when I needed to convert fiat to ETH or BTC has been online, via Luno or Paxful (a peer to peer market place with variety of payment options) respectively, In my country there are not so many physical places where you can trade cash for cryptocurrencies.

despite the word "cryptocurrency", they are not used as currencies apart from bitcoin. in fact majority of altcoins are not even created to be used as currencies hence they are not capable of doing so. they are instead created for pump and dumping purposes so that is what all of us are using altcoins for, even if some of us don't like to admit it!
there are some good ideas here and there among them too which can be seen as another usage of them which is exploring other areas of blockchain technology. but the cases are so few.
that only leaves bitcoin which has multiple purposes, the volatility provides a good asset for trading and making profit. the security and decentralization of it makes it a good store of value, and its design makes it a good currency.

Due to its nature I don't believe Bitcoin will attain a stable price any time soon. I do agree with you and I also use Bitcoin as a store of value right now. It's like the gold of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin isn't going away anytime soon, and if you haven't bought at the ATH of 20k then from where we are now ,you can only go up.
I know that's not how Bitcoin was supposed to be used, but at the moment it's the smartest thing for me to do.

I prefer to use Bitcoin for ecommerce, because I was a victim of credit card fraud and Bitcoin is so much better than any other payment option that I have used before. <PayPal & Credit cards>

I also buy food and snacks at some local food merchants with bitcoins that was converted from my entertainment budget, specifically for that purpose. <Why spend that in fiat, if I can convert it to bitcoins>  ;D

I spend 20% of all the coins I buy and I hoard the remaining 80%.  8)

Cryptocurrency can be used for various purposes like personally I use cryptocurrency for various purposes
#investment
#purchasing
#as a medium of transfer
#saving my earnings

Oh definitely not anytime soon. It will take time; as I'm pretty sure gold also took A LOT of time before it became stable enough in terms of price. I just really hope we can attain price stability with bitcoin in our lifetime.

Also, whose to say that you can't go up even if you bought at 20k? :P

I use crypto currencies mostly for investing, staking and earning interests through lending. I am also curious whether there is any shop offering discounts or good deals when paying with crypto currencies.

I could've sworn I added "this year" at the end of my sentence. Well, my bad, I am actually very optimistic about Bitcoin and I am sure that it will beat the old ATH, but that will probably not happen until next year.

I just used cryptocurrency for investment purpose and sometimes as a payment getways. 

Right, cryptocurrency are best used in investing cause it gain high profit, and also used it in money transfer fast and safe and pay my bills, buying a stuff, there is lots of ways using cryptocurrency.

Until now, I only use cryptocurrency as a place to invest, there is no party that supports the use of cryptocurrency in my country and they don't even know the function of cryptocurrency, it's just that they judge negatively because of the news circulating. Actually I always wanted to use cryptocurrency in my life everyday but there were no supporting facilities to use it.

In real, now the digital currency is indeed very much used as an investment, only a few percent use digital currency as a medium of financial payment. This can be recognized because currently there is still a lack of facilities and also places that accept digital currency payments. Investment is far more attractive because it can provide many benefits. But now more and more years there has been an increase in the number of uses of the digital currency, good progress and of course it must be further improved. We are all happy and we will all get satisfying results when we can do our best.

Since I don't know any companies or establishments that are accepting cryptocurrencies at this moment, I use crypto as my storage of funds. There is a little risk there but I'm holding coins that I know that will boom in the future. There are some times that I spend some of them to trading and some to gambling but it is a small amount only. I wish in the future, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will be use as a payment device.

Basically for BTC, its a storage of value so pretty much what you want but for some like me its going to be used to invest to more projects. I have been buying on ICO and also have been investing my skills to profit from these projects. So just when I got some ETH, I end up buying Token sales because I know I can profit from it.

After I understand the whole blockchain technology, I realized that the traditional payment system is too slow. The main use of bitcoin to me is it serves a currency for me to buy goods and services in my community.

Well me personally i use crypto to raise money for something more expensive like a new computer and for long term investments like a house or a car.I think that crypto gives you a great opportunity to gather some money and don't spend them right away.

Its very useful in terms of online shopping where you can pay your bills easily and instantly. I always my bitcoin in buying online stuffs and buying online game credits. But, I usually spend little amount of bitcoin in buying online stuffs.

nowadays most of people keep crypto for speculation purpose.. This will change in the next decades where people wont use much fiat again.. it is all about advantages when using crypto. Lower comissions and much faster transferences! So the most common use of crypto in the future will be   EVERYTHING!

For me as long as the crytpo or altcoins has a high volume in the platform exchange and its value is movable, that's I could say it is a useful coin for sure. And one of this example are Bitcoin, Ethereum, dent, Xem, Utk, Neo, and others.

For me crypto currencies are mostly used as savings and like investing on top coins and earning the profit from it. There are countries accepting BTC payment and few countries have ATM too but once it is approved by our country i will use it for payments, purchase of products etc in my daily routine.
There are few coins which we can invest in like BTC,ETH,Neo,Xrp etc..

I believe in cryptocurrencies as a new kind of money, but, unfortunately, I don't have many opportunities to use them appropriately. Sometimes I buy one crypto with another, mostly I just hold and from time to time I exchange bitcoin for fiat when I need money for stuff like bills, rent, food, transport etc. If I could pay for these basic things with cryptos in bitcoin, I definitely would do that. I don't think that cryptos should only be used for some illegal activities or for trading. Their primary purpose is being a new type of money that cannot be faked, suffer from hyperinflation or be under control of a single authority.

Travel the world.  Now possible to travel the world by spending cryptocurrency.

Some  travel agents accept bitcoin as a payment method to book flights, car rentals, and hotels and for those who prefer to stay in an apartment when traveling can book accommodation using bitcoin (BTC) or ether (ETH) on CryptoCribs.

The growth of the bitcoin ATM market also means travelers are now able to convert their cryptocurrency into local currency in most major cities around the world.

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no, I don't do anything right now with bitcoin other than just as an asset, because I don't know how to use it in terms of my daily life. but in the future we don't know that bitcoin will penetrate into many aspects of the daily economy.

This is actually a good one because this is actually a primary purpose behind my post, a lot of people don't know how or where they can use cryptos to make purchases in daily life! So I'm trying to maybe get a list of some new sites together for users out there that currently don't know where they could be utilizing it as a currency like it should be! Great response thank you.

I have a good recommendation for you, i'll give out one of my favorite sites to visit for cryptocurrency purchases, Gyft.com. You can purchase all sorts of different companies gift cards using bitcoin, all done quickly and can even be done on mobile app on your phone. They have a bunch of different large brand companies on there like eBay and others. Great gateway for using your cryptocurrency to make a purchase at most retailers even if they don't accept cryptocurrency. They don't charge any fee's either. ~ I'm in no way affiliated with them, just giving out one of my resources to help you know where you can make bitcoin purchases!

In my mostly common using cryptocurrency:
1. I think my answer should be BTC is the most user friendly currency for everyone. You can used it to buying a lot of products because majority of the big companies accepted it.
2. Recently i using DENT coin to buy mobile phone data package and voice call minuets it’s really existing because first time i got this Opportunity in my country.     

I've always used bitcoin and I've never used another crypto currency. The last time I spent $ 135 in bitcoins on CS: GO skins about 2 years ago, that was my biggest mistake, because if I had just waited a bitcoin was low at that time and later it started to grow. I never invested in other currencies, and the bitcoin was the most reliable and I did not make a mistake.

My most common use of cryptocurrencies is to trade against each other and as an investment, although I have few instances where I have used it as utility in app.

Well i use cryptocurrencies basically for purchasing items on marketplaces such as Ebay and also use it for some subscription packages for my cryptocurrency trading bots. Well i believe cryptocurrencies were actually made to be used for making payments for transactions that we conduct.

Well i take some coding courses on the internet and some of them have made the payment system so flexible that we can use cryptocurrencies to pay for our subscriptions. Using cryptocurrencies to pay for services is very fast, secured and convenient.

I use Bitcoin only ocasionally for purchases necause I tend to hold it and I don't have a very big amount so I can't spend them on daily stuff. As for other cryptocurrencies, I only hold them and use them for trading, since Bitcoin is accepted more I use it for purchases. My purchases are mostly buying from other persons or online game shops and those are on a very low monthly/yearly basis.

I would be interested to use crypto for shopping in various online stores. But for now, I use crypto for transactions. Buying and selling. But I would like to have more opportunities to use it.

Me too.But since cryptos are still not adopted in my country and merchants are not accepting it yet,i still have to convert it into fiat currency so i can used it to buy all my needs and even wants.But i prefer most of them to save as my investment for future needs.

I use it as my savings, instead of storing my funds in the bank I prefer to buy coins and store it in my safe wallet then never spend it and just keep it as my savings. Having Crypto gives me full control of my funds without needing third trusted party like banks. This made me feel more secure of my asset and even expect greater return in the future.

in the country we live in, we have not legalized bitcoin as a means of payment for goods, so for the time being we are only used to buying bitcoin for deposits. but we still have confidence that in the not too distant future our country will provide convenience in using bitcoin, especially being able to provide some supporting facilities for bitcoin traders. what happens now is the use of bitcoin is only for investment and as a future asset.

rightnow i think the most suitable is ethereum, because there is so much altcoin out there that use ethereum as a basis

Base in my experience i used cryptocurrency in my online shopping. It so convinient to used in online shopping, make the system fast and easy.

I uses mostly my crypto currencies to some o my financial transactions. Truly, I can't use it to every transactions since some of the processes still works with fiat currencies in my country. But I do hope that in the future that this thing will happen.

bitcoin is mostly used for investment,
because for them bitcoin is also a way to get profits both in a short time and long term. because bitcoin is also the most popular.

Everyone writes that they buy something for cryptocurrency. Honestly, I don’t even know where and what to buy for real-time cryptocurrency. Everything that I buy is sold in regular stores where there is no such payment method yet. The only way out, if you want to buy for cryptocurrency, is to buy it in special online stores, which are also not so many!

In my town there is only 3 places where you can use BTC.
Two of them are shops printing 3d objects and the third one is an accountant.
I own a 3d printer and I don't need an accountant yet.
In internet is much convenient to use paypal or credit card (sorry BTC)

the most common use of crypto that I believe in and I do now is to use bitcoin in my daily daily life and how to use it as well as possible in bitcoin today

I like to buy gold coins online and have been stocking them up. I personally use apmex.com which accepts bitcoin.

We're same i don't buy goods online with my cryptocurrency instead i use it as my back up money in case my wallet goes empty then i can sell it right away. I trust it more than banks do with my secured money on them although i have banks also where my fiat money are stored there are still risks like system glitch that i experienced once.

for us bitcoin for investment and transactions to get profits every day and also to increase the needs of our family. because bitcoin is also very promising.

I using my bitcoin in speculation and also for utility. I usually to day trading because I always getting a lot of benefits from it. For me to pay my monthly bills,  I use bitcoin as mode of payment because it is more faster than using fiat currency.

Honestly, I used my crypto currencies more oftern in buying myself a load for my mobile phone. I also used it to pay bills. More than that, I like using my crypro currencies in sending money to my brother since it is very convenient.

paying bills and transferring funds as well that's how I also used crypto, as it is a much convenient way not to fall in line anymore and rushing to fall in line when I need to transfer funds or I need to pay any bills as we already have service where crypto can be used as a form of payment, transactions are instant so no need to fall in line and wait for any cashier / attendant to process my request  as I can do it much easier and quicker using my device.

So far in 3-4 years im just holding and spend some on digital video games , cashout a little . But actually there is plenty of ways what you can do with crypto . There is online shops where you can order something , pay bills with some companies and so on . But my favorite method is just holding =D

I used to pay with Bitcoin everywhere back in the day when I lived in Berlin for a while. Merchant adoption never kicked off in the States, which is sad.
I've only used cryptocurrencies AS currencies, and it seems more difficult to do so now than 5 years ago, especially given that I'm not in Europe anymore.

To all those that mentioned they make purchases for various things, would you care to share actual websites you visit? Sharing the names/links. The purpose of my post was to get people discussing about where they transact and to make a recommendation of where they do like to visit so that other users can see new places where they can transact where they've never known they could before. Which, if you look in this thread you can see there are quite a few people posting in just this thread alone  that don't really know anywhere at all that they can go to transact with their cryptocurrency's.  So to all who mentioned what they like to make purchases on, could you make direct recommendations of what those sites are that you like to visit?

 That was the purpose here, I gave one of my recommendations with Gyft  website.  So all of us to know where we can transact with our cryptocurrency's, let's help out those in this thread and that may read this thread find places where they can actually make purchases and utilize their cryptocurrency.

at the moment, I use cryptocurrencies as a value saving or as a way of investing, because in my country, they have not yet accepted cryptocurrencies as a means of payment. but in the future I am sure that we will use more cryptocurrencies as a payment method.

Separating our prophet will be the most important thing to do something now and the future and I split the money that I and in this field one part for saving and one part for my basic uses this will be the routine that I followed in this.

Yes.Just like mine too.Since cryptocurrency is not yet accepted also in my country,i used to hold them for now and save,and others were also converted into fiat so i can buy also the things i want.I am also investing using cryptocurrency through buying affordable but with potential coins right now.Hopefully in the near future my country would be able to legalize crypto and accept them as for payment.

Me personally, i haven't spent any dime yet from any of my coins. As of now I am in the habit of collecting them through bounties and airdrops. I don't know, though I dont need them yet as of this time but I just want to feel I have them. Somehow it makes me feel good and satisfied knowing that I have them in my wallet.

Mostly on trading and also paying my bills online which is really convenient for me, but I also hold so i can have the chance to earn more. Most of the user treat cryptocurrency as a long term investment which is also good since cryptomarket will alwasy grow and if you hold more, a higher chance of huge profit.

Now cryptocurrency for me as an investment tool. I use it to make trades on exchanges. So far, I have not tried to use it for any other purposes, but it would definitely be interesting.

The most frequent thing I do with crypto is trading. Because my goal is to get additional income from crypto. At the same time follow the development of the era.

Nowadays I use the money I earn from trading in paying my monthly amortization for the car that I bought 5 years ago since it's under 5 year mortgage and so far I am about to finish that 5 year mortgage this coming April ad thanks to trading and campaigns because it helped me in paying that mortgage in time. No, I don't pay my mortgage in BTC, I have to convert it to fiat first then pay through the bank.

I also do that. what I do now is just holding back and continuing to collect. there are no special activities like spending using bitcoin in store or something else. I am more comfortable storing it. of course we will profit in the future if we continue to do this

I only use bitcoin and use with greater frequency to make trade. I do not know if that counts, but I usually buy refills for cell phones using my bitcoins and I also convert bitcoins to FIAT to make purchases on the internet. In my country there are no places where I can shop using bitcoin directly. This is a great disadvantage.


I think in my case it would be the purchase refills for mobile phone


I also Hold and also spent, I think it can do both

the use of crypto for me, is only as an asset or savings in the future, because our government does not provide facilities to be able to use crypto in trading, but we still strongly believe that in the future there will be a policy that makes it easy for the traders crypto to be able to use crypto to make several payments in every purchase that occurs.

I'd say that is the best currency to use if you don't want any legal trouble when purchasing a product. I also like it that it's irreversible, I got -700$ on PayPal from fake chargebacks.

I've been using cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and some altcoins for my trading and for buying some products both online abd offline. Online stores are still few in my country so I often convert my bitcoin into fiat instead to be able to buy something. I used to hold my bitcoin for some months but now I shifted to trading because it is more profitable although it is more risky than holding for long term.

I stop hodling and started using it in my daily life for things I buy online, people give a lot of discounts if you use it.

I am glad when getting bitcoin at higher price and could take much profit, so far I don't care about my country still not allowed for using bitcoin as transaction but I can take profit with speculative of bitcoin price day by day.

I use cryptocurrencies mainly for trading on the exchanges and from time to time I exchange them for some fiat to pay the gas for my car. :) The adoption rate is not big enough at the moment in my country to only use it for shopping and stuff..

My goal is to increase the numbers of the bitcoin that I have so it is the reason why I still do not use my bitcoin in transactions. I use my bitcoin in trading for me to earn more bitcoins,  it is risky but I can handle the risks due to my enough knowledge and good self control.

I use cryptocurrency to make payments ,transfer payments to others and companies too ,I haven't for once use my cryptocurrency for shopping though just normal payments and buy data for my phone too after changing them to fiat and I hope there will come a time that I will be able to buy properties with my coins

Cryptocurrency is currently common and I often invest is BTC, and BCD, if I have the convenience I will continue to collaborate in other crypto worlds like coins in VIP Bitcoin, this is one form of developing crypto to the public, I hope cryptocurrencyfor the next it can be more advanced.

Main common used for me personally at least is the ability to store monetary value.
The option to use the stored value as a method of sending and receiving money is also very convenient.
If I owe a mate money and dont have cash on me, its way easier to send Bitcoin then to send from a bank account.
All of these factors are my most common uses for crypto currencies.

taking payment, sending payment and use as investment.

The only common use of cryptocurrency in my region is by paying bills because the apps only offers this though there are some online sites that sells and accept bitcoin but i never tried those before

Seems like theres no other option huh?lol thats what all we do here in crypto specially when you offers services

Well here in country, bitcoin, ethereum, and xrp is the most commonly used as payment such as money transfer, electricity bill, water bill, internet , and tuition fee also. Glad that our government here is not that strict on cryptocurrency, so most of the people now are getting aware about in cryptocurrency and bitcoin.

I use the cryptocurrency for the exchange. Also, I'm going to try some of the services where there is a payment cryptocurrency. I also tried to use tokens on the platform of some projects. That's interesting I think.

The most common use of cryptocurrency  in my case is to buy prepaid loads for my mobile data connection through our local exchange which offers a lot of services like bill payments, goods and services where merchants accept Bitcoin payment. Other cryptocurrency are also available like Ethereum, Ripple and BitcoinCash that can be converted to our local fiat currency. For me cryptocurrency like Bitcoin is way safer to have than having paper money as it is only for wealthy people. Cryptocurrency is for everyone, we all believe  we can achieve the what we called financial freedom compared to fiat that is prone to crisis.

I use cryptocurrency to pay bills but most of the time, I use it or encash it because of our daily needs or in emergency uses like hospital bills or for school purposes for my son, but if an online transaction is what you are asking then I mostly use it to pay bills.

Well, I think I will not be unique by saying that I use crypto for cash making. I mean I trade them and use profit for my needs.

i simply use bitcoin for three things, pay for huge amount of money in purchase of heavy equiment and also do some online shopping with it. Also there are sites currently where one can bet with bitcoin and i sometines bet with it

Mainly e-commerce, protects your identity

I actually prefer to buy clothes, smartphone or if possible my daily needs use cryptocurrency but unfortunately i was not able to do that because i could not find online shop or shopping store in my country who accept cryptocurrency as the payment method and currently nothing i can do besides use my cryptocurrency for trading purposse and for investment tools

Its Very good if you can use bitcoin to pay bills or something, there are rarely users who use bitcoin for that, most of them just see it for investment. if the merchants around me accept bitcoin, of course I will spend bitcoin more often. I'm currently using it for long-term investments only

I totally agree with what you said BlackPanda because the number of people that used crypto currency as an investment increased last year but with the last market correction we cant sure now if the number of crypto investment users still increase or decreased because we both see alot of users on this forum which lamented due to their losses.
Ridwan Fauzi, crypto payment is now advanced which I believe you ought to know by now and if parties support the uses of crypto currency in your country, you can simply apply for a crypto credit card which you can use through ATM or POS terminals.

If all are using that strategy a long time to hold investment nothings happen on Bitcoin price movement, it is not contribute the movement price on the market. The best thing to do is always having transactions with Bitcoin, paying bills and having a trading activity which is the price circulate. More transactions generate to make the Bitcoin price increase.

despite the name cryptocurrency, most are not currencies. the other are altcoin and are not been used as cryptocurrency. to me, i think the most commonly used cryptocurrency is the BTC.

Most of the cryptocurrencies were being used in the trading exchanges not on any bill counters to pay the bills but this is what bitcoin made for I hope. I am not using my cryptocurrencies to pay for anything and even I can't able to do that until it is accepted everywhere in my country.

I spend a small amount of money all year long, and usually there are some parts for the computer, I last bought, paid and online sellers for some services or necessary items. I do not have a large amount and I do not think that I could live with it, so I just keep it up.

Cryptocurrencies or to be precise has the very practical use for me. I don't use it only as an investment but to cover my everyday expenses. To pay the bills, buy goods in stores or even to pay for traveling. I use Bitcoins on my Bitcoin debit card which makes every payment much easier because card is accepted everywhere and I don't have to worry if the merchants accept Bitcoin or not.
I think that the true value of Bitcoin is use in real life to pay for real things as an alternative to traditional fiat currencies.

Unfortunately, I think, for many of us it's still just an investment

Generally speaking, the use of digital currency is to support the financial transactions that we have. Furthermore, the majority of users of digital currencies are investors. Investing in digital currencies is something very interesting. With changing price movements investors take advantage of the situation to be made a profit. something like this is done by many people, investing in digital currencies can provide a huge source of income.

I think now mostly all people buy bitcoins to make easy money. But the market is falling, it's a bad decision. I think that some companies use bitcoin as a payment, specially between different countries.

The former is correct, the latter is hard to believe.
Bitcoin is an accountant's nightmare, it's much easier to do wires, and given the accounting and legal issues - cheaper, too.

for me, I use bitcoin or other cryptocurrency just for investment or trading. For investment, I usually buy BTC and will hold it for 5-10 years, but this way is very risky because the price of bitcoin tends to be unstable.

oh i see  . trade and invest arent a common usage but if thats what you like then go ahead  . investing btc is indeed good for long term but  5 to 10 years ? thats literally long but the risk isnt big because the longer btc runs , the bigger the value that it can possibly get .

me myself is only use crypto for buying mobile recharge and sometimes i used it to pay bills  . i believe these are the common and basic ways to use our cryptocurrencies  .

different things that I do with bitcoin,   the first  for me as a savings or long-term investment and as an asset, both bitcoin can get more income by trading on a daily, basis that can be understood because in the country I live in I have not allowed bitcoin is used as a payment tool directly. I hope that someday our country can provide enough facilities for businesses to receive payments in the form of bitcoin.

Many of us use Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for trading and holding only since there are not so much establishments that are accepting it at this moment. Both of them has risks since its both investment and investing always has risk but it can give you high rewards.

I also use cryptocurrencies for trading only and holding purposes since I don't know anybody or any stores who are accepting crypto at this moment. Sometimes, I use it for gambling but not always.

I strongly believe and have great hopes for crypto currencies, and now I am using the new crypto currency as a long-term investment where I believe that crypto currencies will be able to provide happiness with great profits someday in my life.

In our country, we are using an exchange and people think that they are really using Bitcoin to pay their bills.

I know that they are using their Bitcoin in the exchange to pay their bills or dues but what they didn't know is that the exchange already change their BTCs into fiat and use that to pay their desired offices like mobile loads and monthly bills. Though it is great that some people know these since they will be able to think that they can use Bitcoin in some ways like that.

for now the most common use is still in investment to get additional profits and revenues for absolute functions and overall not yet because the government still has not formalized the crypto currency as the applicable currency

I am a newbie in crypto, so I decided on buying some amount and maybe starting to trade in the nearest future. In my city nobody accepts btc as a means of payment, so I might use it for online payments and just store money hoping the price will rise. 

I use cryptocurrency for trading, make a profit, exchange it into my local fiat. I repeat the process day by day, week by week, month by month :D

I use bitcoin and altcoin at the most because that is what I use for trading and I search a way to make a profit in bitcoin. I also use bitcoin and altcoin for a very long-term investment.

I don't buy any products with bitcoin because I prefer to save more bitcoin right now. Besides that, I do not yet find any local website that accepts bitcoin as the payment.

What kind of discount do you want? You will get a discount when the price of the coins is down because you can buy the coins at a low price.

I think the discount is applied in dollars and then we can see how much bitcoin we need to pay because so far, when I see the payment transaction of bitcoin, we don't make any discount or maybe I am wrong.

I hope it answer your question :D

I do not use cryptocurrency for payment instruments, because it does not apply in my country at this time. But I can still use cryptocurrencies for investment methods that provide significant benefits, starting from trading and others.

There is no incentives or offers in place if you are dealing with cryptocurrencies that i know off, these offers will be provided by private companies as part of promotion and bitcoin is an open source project, i am not sure about other private crypto offers, most of the countries have not regulated the market and once there is a clear regulation in place many companies will accept it as it will a good one for travelers around the world who does not need to convert their currency to local ones every time and for international business, for me i use bitcoin to gamble when ever i feel like placing a bet in sports or in dice sites and trading is a big part as well. ;)

taking payment, paying my bills to people work for me and investment.

Mostly for transaction, although most of them are kept for investment purposes but when the time comes to get some valuables and assets we resort to it if  only the companies involve belief in our digital world.

Transactions are the best uses of cryptocurrencies especially bitcoin. In my past transactions, there are delays in the payment but bitcoin has characteristics which the transaction can be more faster and better. The payment system is becoming more better because of the characteristics of cryptocurrencies.

The current use is for trade, because the instrument provides an opportunity to earn profits.
Besides that, it is also for long-term investments, because cryptocurrency especially altcoin still provides good opportunities for profit.

until right no im using bitcoin for investing and some little tradng, so i use bitcoin because i want to create some money more and more with bitcoin, i hope in the future bitcoi npurpose can be more good than now, have many purpose and anything else

As cryptocurrency usage is ban in my country so only option left is to convert to fiat currency and use or i use it in gambling sites so that i can hide my identification and play gambling. Online purchase cannot do because product cost is low but the delivery charge it high which make product costly to purchase

Right now I would say store of value and speculation.  Many of these coins aren't even used but they have obtained massive valuations just from speculators.  Well people like to gamble, so it looks like these junk coins will never stop and there are three new ones to take the place of every dead one.

usually I only use cryptocurrency to buy something that I want and now it's only a bitcoin that I often use to buy something I want, with bitcoin more profitable than using other coins.

My most common use for cryptocurrency as on now is to trade with it. Yes cryptocurrency has other uses that makes it superior to normal currency but  yet to tap into  yet

actually the common uses of crypto currency for me as of now is to trade or invest since its still very promising despite of the circumstance of the market which i'm still able to make a profits on it . And sometimes i used it always as well as a payment method especially buying load and more stuff through online . Crypto currency is a big help for me indeed. Reason i preferred to use it than other online payment method.  

verbally use of cryptocurrency due to and the anonymity of its reliability and ease of use

I use Bitcoin will most of my basic needs because I used because I like a job it can be the only way that I using to make money from a long period of time so for all my needs highest Bitcoin only and it will also be the profitable way for many making for mine.

I use bitcoin mostly for gambling and for trading needs. Apart from the same I cash out bitcoin for all my needs as in my country there is not much stores accepting cryptocurrencies. I've been into this community years back, and I've used it on large scale purchase of construction components. For the same I explored and found a retailer who accept bitcoin.

Since when i visit this post i saw your edit(The edit of the person who opened the post), i'll post here some links to the sites i believe and encountered are most useful.

I personally use it mostly as an investment asset but i have done some transactions with it and plan on using it more often for everyday transactions in the future.

This site is related to gaming, they accept other currencies too - Not only Bitcoin:
https://www.instant-gaming.com/en/top50/

This one is about gift cards to send someone in a holiday or something like that:
https://www.gyft.com/buy-gift-cards/?all=1

And this is a wonderful shop, what makes it even better is that you can pick whatever you want to buy from amazon, which is awesome:
https://purse.io/shop

And if someone here have some kind of store, they might be interested about this. The site could be interesting for everyone, but this can make accepting Bitcoins as payment really easy. Something store owners need to see.
https://bitpay.com/retail

None of those are referral links, just trying to help.

Due to the fact that bitcoin has fallen so low in price, I do not have the opportunity to spend it yet. The fact is that I bought it for$ 7000 and it is absolutely not profitable for me to spend it at the price that we see today. So I'll wait for the best moment.

I think we really need to wait the price of crypto is now still on dip that is why selling your asset today is a loss. I believe that the most common used of crypto is for investment many people invest on it and wait until the right time to sell take place. So i think there are so many investors that is now holding due to the bad market condition.

The government in my country stays neutral about cryptocurrency hence its operations are smooth here. Aside trading and earning more from my cryptocurrency holdings, BTC, ETH, LTC, and BCH can be used as a form of money transfer, buy airtime for mobile phones, and pay bills such as electricity, water and television. It is very convenient and easy when i use crypto for such services.

well, for me, for now I just feel that bitcoin is the fastest transaction tool on the internet, and also as an investment tool for some people. well, but lately, I have seen it as an investment tool, because the potential for price increases is very large, and may reach $ 4000 in the near future.

the most common for me to use crypto for investment, because krypto can also help generate profits anytime even for a long time, so krypto can also help our daily lives.

I have know about cryptocurrecy at last 2015 year and many thing have I faced with bitcoin and altcoin, some time I have early for selling my asset and got little profit, but some time I early to buy because price have drop, but I will take experience with bitcoin and altcoin.

For now, I just invest in cryptocurrencies which have the most potential of becoming the next bitcoin. But I use to use cryptocurrencies for most of my online endeavors and transactions. Most of my services I do online or I provide online are paid with cryptocurrency. This helps and provide a peer to peer system where I relate directly with the person I 'm providing or who is giving me service which is much easier and faster.  

I agreed with you with using cryptocurrency as a digital currency for trading purposes I use ethereum for trading binary options I am quite satisfied and fulfilled while avoiding the cumbersome processes of using skrill, PayPal etc.
I also used a decentralized broker where the issue of price manipulation by scamming brokers is a thing of the past while I don't have issues with withdrawal of my crypto funds as well as exchanging it to fiat.

The first thing that will come out with newcomers minds is being an investment platform, they look for this as an assets that can bring them huge profits, not knowing the entire system and not taking time to research they will just come in hoping to have a good returned, things is not always in investors favors so better to attract newbies with good explanations so they will not fear after seeing sway with the value.

I use cryptocurrency only for short-term trading and long-term investment. I have never seen any stores on the Internet that would accept carptocurrency as a payment method. I hope this will change in the near future!

I travel a lot and I use crypto to withdraw cash abroad with a better exchange rate than banks

I also use sites like Purse.io, to buy using cryptos and even getting discounts for cheaper products I would normally buy with FIAT

I also use Webmoney, a paypal from russia that supports bitcoin

Apart from using cryptocurrencies for the purpose of trading, investing and saving, I personally feel it can be used for other huge number of uses as well, many of which might surprise you a little but let’s have a look:
•   Digital Publishing
•   De-corrupting charities
•   Travel sector
•   Education
•   Fund-raising
•   Augmented Reality
•   Ethical business practices
•   Wealth Management
•   Retail industry
•   Gaming industry
In future, it won’t be wrong if I say that every industry would be run by the blockchain technology alone. Having said that, there will be a dire need for cryptocurrency exchange development (https://antiersolutions.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-development-company.html) so that everything can be streamlined and that the businesses generate huge revenue out of their crypto businesses.

All investmnts can be risky due to the prices being unstable so this is not just for bitcoin investment. But this is still the most common use of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But there are also many people who use them for transactions such as to pay for things, so there is some use as acual currencies and not just for investment or trading.

I agree. The problem with the current way people use it now is that it's mostly a held asset that people bury in their wallets always waiting for it to gain some value before they return it out back to the market. That strategy really strains the transaction rates and movements of many coins, especially the better ones that affects its value in the end. I mean, it should be noted that a market like this is alive when it's active. If most assets are dormant and sleeping without movement, then it won't help the market have the needed activity to have changes, which would transcend or correlate to value increases.

Well i doubt there are more use aside from these reasons. For now that is. Yeah there are actual transactional use for bitcoin and crypto for now but it's not that widespread basically because of it being extremely volatile. That's just how simply i see it.

I am using my cryptocurrency in buying prepaid loads.
Using an app that accept crypto, I get ten percent rebates everytime I buy load. Also, for bills payment there is a discount. Here in our country, bitcoin is not illegal.

Glad to hear that because most of what I hear are people using bitcoin for investment, basically cryptocurrency is used for currencies, so it's good if you use it to pay something and that's good news if many merchants have received crypto for payment

Almost everyone here is seriously busy with bitcoin for its monetary valuevalue. There is no motivation for any work without a reward. The reward we all enjoy from each project we promote has been the propelling force for our stringent involvement both day and night in bitcoin. The tasks layed before us with stipulated time is not what anyone will just call easy without any expectation. 

some time ago I was still able to use cryptocurrency to buy some items that I could buy using bitcoin and I used bitcoin to make payments on namecheap, but for now steam doesn't support payment using bitcoin anymore.

I usually buy phone airtime with Bitcoin. It is as convenient as buying through my bank mobile wallet. I wish a true peer-to-peer marketplace with enough goods and services will emerge one day. That will definitely be a place to shop always with my Bitcoin.

I have been searching to see if I could find an offline or online stores that accept cryptocurrency for goods and services but unfortunately I am yet to find one in my country.
Presently, I only use cryptocurrency to carry out transactions on the cryptocurrency space and also peer to peer transactions with mostly crypto enthusiastics..
I appreciate the information you provided here poster.

I use my bitcoin to pay some monthly bills through a local bitcoin exchange here. I can also sell load for mobile phones and buy some items using my account in this local exchange. That is my common use for cryptocurrency aside from investing and trading it. Sending a remittance by using cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ripple is also a growing business in my country.

That's great, and you can get more benefits from bitcoin. I hope that in the future, I can get the same things as you. Right now, I don't use too much of cryptocurrency besides of exchange it into fiat because it's hard to find a local store that will accept bitcoin or altcoin as the payment. I can only dream for living in the country or city which want accept cryptocurrency for a new payment system.

I personally travel quite often in Asia and exchanging different currencies its a pain in the ass

but since I discovered BTC my world has radically changed and getting local fiat its much more convenient, for me this is pretty massive, banks have been too greedy

I also buy online with cryptos and get some nice discounts

I wish I could use my crypto savings in the real world but the world is not kind enough to adopt to the new technology. There are many obstacles for crypto to be accepted globally.
This is the reason why the country I live in hasn't legalized crypto yet. I would really like to use it for daily chores, shopping, payments etc.. but for the time being I am just trading it.
I keep on trading and withdraw the profits on regular intervals to manage my expenses and bill. So far it has been a wonderful journey. Crypto has changed my life to a great extent.

As of now, the uses of my funds or cryptocurrencies are more on wants and saving for long-term investments. I still continue to look for great coins that can be good in the next few years even though as time goes by, cryptocurrency's use is getting wider.

Here you have a few of the most important uses of crypto (Btc mainly for now):

- Bitcoin allows people to pay one another without opening a bank account.

- Bitcoin allows money to be transferred from one country to another. Have you wondered why some country restricted you from leaving the country with large amount of your money, even though you indeed proved that it’s yours and have claims to back it up? The reason is because the government does not want their money to leave the country.

- Bitcoin solves double spending problem. It’s a hassle to reverse a payment if you mistakenly click twice to pay something online. Time is more valuable than spending it to call the bank to solve it.

- Bitcoin allows you to have money almost instantly instead of waiting 3–5 days minimum and paying fees for bank transfer

What I mostly do is pay bills using cryptocurrency because here in my country, a company handles Bitcoin wallet and pay all the taxes where you don't have to worry about any purchases made. Also, it is faster and that my family prefers this over others.

If you are looking to spend your bitcoin for steam funds, you can do so indirectly. There are shops online that sells steam gift card for bitcoin. Try visiting those sites. I used to buy from "steamgamesbtc". Never had any issue with them. I main owner can be found on this site and has been selling users for a long time. He is has good feedback. So you can give that site a shot.

For offline merchants, it is still very rare especially in countries that prohibit cryptocurrency. but in online, I think payment using crypto is quite famous you know ? I see there are many stores that accept Bitcoin payments, ranging from hosting providers, domains providers, electronic stores, bill payments, etc. and I also often use bitcoin for that, even though I also invest in bitcoin

Personally I have use cryptocurrency for my various purposes think. investment planning process,trading fair, online payment service for buying products.but i though use Bitcoin ico investment. most likely USD,BTC,ETH I always try to use with my everytime moment.

For me Cryptocurrency are useful mainly for following two purpose:

1. Trading: is the major think to earn fund until we have a good market reading skills.
2. Payment: Payment through crypto is one of the major advantage that we all have. It is easy to pay in crypto during travelling. The top ecommerce sites like shoify, wocommerce and any more have already started accepting payments in crypto.

To know more about the top websites that accept payment in crypto you can refer the article: https://coinswitch.co/news/top-25-websites-and-businesses-that-accept-bitcoins-in-2019

In my country there are now a couple of offline stores here that now accepts crypto payments . mainly they are retaurants , resto bars and some mini stores  but this only available on major areas   since crypto adoption is not yet really recognize on our city/region    .  so thats it i use my crypto to shop and dine but aside from those i also use it to buy data's ( intenet mb 's )   .

Soon im looking forward to use my crypt to buy some physical items online like gadgets , for example phone , power bank , keyboard , etc ... Im just waiting for our local online shop to support crypto because i heared that they are now doing some move to inplement it on their service .

I really hope that the cryptocurrency will break into all spheres of life. Of course it will bring discomfort to the government, but to ignore the fact that the crypt is more reliable and more convenient, it is impossible. I heard that soon the platform will begin to work fully, where we will be able to buy goods and services for cryptocurrency from different spheres! This is great news for me, because I have long dreamed of traveling, paying with cryptocurrency. 8) Perhaps many will be able to buy real estate and not become slaves of the mortgage ;D

It is really sad that this happened and I thought it will be a thing for a long time.

I am buying Steam games for some time now and I am using fiat in the past, when they accepted Bitcoin as a payment method, I got really excited and bought a bunch of games and virtual items, especially on Dota 2 and some keys on CSGO. I hope they will be accepting Bitcoin again in the future so I can enjoy some games without using my money on the bank since I usually save them for something.

Due to the current crashed of the cryptocurrency market, I realized that I should stop paying my bills through the use of bitcoin because I experiencing losses. I bought my bitcoins at a high price and I do not want it to use in my daily transactions.

I am curious, what is your day to day activities? I never heard of someone using Bitcoin and any other crypto currencies every day. Traders might be using them, trading them once in a while but I don't think it should be used or done every single day. You are not a merchant I suppose since I doubt people will always be using or paying Bitcoin since the price of it is so low these days.

the possibility can only be done by a country that has formalized the crypto currency as an official currency that can be used to conduct transactions like a fiat currency but in my country crypto currency is still prohibited from making transactions directly

I'm using cryptocurrencies mostly as an investment, I have used them to buy some products and services in the past but most of my money is just sitting in cryptocurrencies doing nothing which is exactly what I want, I really do not trust in banks and I do not want to give them the ability to keep all my money just because I choose to open an account with them so I keep most of my money in bitcoin.

All in all, it is still about speculation, and that is the lowest common denominator which all cryptocurrencies share. I suspect this use by far outstrips all other uses out there combined. But it is the difference which seems to be of particular interest here. So other than speculation, Bitcoin itself is used as a surrogate store of value (with a possibility of speculating as a nice bonus) and for transferring wealth from point A to point B. Litecoin can be considered a lightweight version of Bitcoin itself with more emphasis on small payments and value transfer vehicle. Dogecoin is for gambling as it is cheap as dirt and fast as wind. Ethereum as well as its derivatives like EOS, Tron, etc, is used for smart contracts as far as I understand it

What other coins are doing I don't know, and it seems like their authors don't know either

Buying more alts and hodling. Diversifying in crypto.

Today you've right... but day by day  crypto is getting more and more functionality... and this is awesome!!!
I think that next two years use of crypto is going to rich beyond our wildest dreams.

I sue cryptocurrency bitcoin and altcoin for trading and investing, so far I never use bitcoin or altcoin as transaction payment because still less company at my country have accepted bitcoin as transaction payment.

I also used to pay my mobile bills through bitcoin in 2016 and 2017 but now I have stopped doing that. The reason is that I am saving my bitcoins for future as the current value is very low .



I only use bitcoin for trading. Since I am doing trading for quite sometime, I have made good money and have doubled my coins through the trading.

I believe that most of the people here are just using cryptocurrency for trading and speculating that it will go up again and again. I already convinced myself to join the revolution to use bitcoinn to buy digital services to do my part but now it does not really work because of the bearish market.

In my case, i use cryptocurrency in paying or buying some stuffs online, like cellphone loads or some game credits, i use it also when trading, like i buy tokens which I thought the price will go up and also to wait for it to rise up. I hope someday we can use cryptocurrency too when buying groceries or anything we like for example in the mall, i hope every store there accepts virtual currency for more faster transactions.

To be honest, I don't use too much cryptocurrency besides exchanging it for fiat because it's hard to find a local store that will accept bitcoin or altcoin as payment.

I think a lot of people in this world face same problem. Because in their country, include me, government not accept bitcoin as legal payment. So a lot of merchant maybe too afraid to accept it. But in past, when a lot of regulation not happen yet, a lot of merchant online accept bitcoin as payment via Bitpay.

There are now merchant in my community that accept bitcoin as payment. Actually, I using my bitcoin in my daily lives like buying goods and services. Based on my observation, I found out that the fear of the people feel before are now fading and they are now interested to use bitcoins.

I agree that bicoin is an investment, because in the long run the increase is very large so the level of profit is also large. Bitcoin can be added to the list of investment portfolios such as stocks, gold or deposits in banks.

True that many peoples using cryptocurrency for private reason, and the other peoples using it for other reason.
For example you can using cryptocurrency to invest a legit project but the location of the company is far from your place.
With cryptocurrency, everyone can using it without regarding where they are.

I commonly used to pay for my VPN membership and for online storage, i do small amount of trading and convert it to fiat to pay my bills and a bit of donations here and there.

I was actually going to buy PC games on steam when I already made a lot of profits on bitcoin but then I was too late to do it when they remove that option. It's the only thing I think I know that will make me use crypto for online purchases because I am gamer.

well, so far I'm used to exchanging bitcoins with fiat. I feel that bitcoin is one of the tools for profit, and some people also do it. maybe I have also used bitcoin for other things, like buying the web, domain, and also a number of other things related to business.

Well i believe that the most common used of bitcoin is for investing in crypto, because with the used of bitcoin we can buy a different kinds of coin to hold and earn when the price of the coin goes up. I believe that bitcoin is also ised to fulfill our daily needs because it can be change yo fiat and we can used it anytime.

It became the most common now but before it wasn't.

The main reason and use for bitcoin to be exact was being a payment method. People just learned on how quick its price changes so there's an opportunity for us to take with it which led us to treat it as an investment.

I use the most common crypto to get benefits and also I use it for transactions, because for me krypto is also very safe to use for a long time.

if only I had a lot of bitcoin in my wallet, maybe I would use bitcoin more often as a payment tool. because this is an action to help bitcoin better known by many people. but unfortunately, I only use it when it is urgent for payment. because I myself tend to use bitcoin as an investment.

There is an organization in my country that normally promote cryptocurrency through trade fair, so I have purchase several goods with cryptocurrency, ranging from electronics, phones, clothes and food items.

In the beginning I used btc in order to cover some of my personal expenses and also to invest in my business.
I also tried to trade.
Now, I just hold because price is to low.
No meaning to sell and it's difficult to trade.

I have used in occasions to buy certain things and the experience is much better and efficient than paying in cash using fiat currencies or other form of online transactions via banks but like many even I frequently use them in exchanges because actually I don't see much sites that provide the option to make payments using cryptocurrencies which is very sad but the situation is changing day by day with more adoption so in the future options to use crpytocurrencies as payments will be high than today

At the beginning I had an understanding that it is a global token that it can be used all around. I never had a big thought about the technology behind it. Later through the discussions on the forum understood better about the technology that is making the change. Later went on using bitcoin into my needs. Made an entry into gambling and started using bitcoin which is the most used platform.

The most common thing i do with cryptocurrency is trading because it can be profiting if my prediction hit.
Another thing to do with crypto is investing on a very good project which is real, not scam one.
But i think there are many other activities in underground world using cryptocurrencies.

For me cryptocurrency is the first base of new platform of investment while there are works created too in the community.
This crypto can change the world as new nature of work at the same time we can have alternative work for those unemployed.
As for me the main use of crypto is for bills payment as it is acceptable in my country.

The favorite thing I often do from cryptocurrency is trading from it and making cryptocurrency an online payment transaction tool that can make it easy to buy various personal needs that I use at a relatively low cost compared to using the real currency burdened with quite expensive taxes

Right, it's supposedly being use for payment process but due  to many people seen that opportunities, they grab it and instead of using it they keep it for investment purposes, but for sure eventually it will be used a normal digital currency where we can buy or pay for something using this system.

There's already adoptions coming from different countries so surely it will adds up more usage for cryptocurrency.

That will be trading, investing, buying goods and paying for services with my token which I find more easier to use on the blockchain network.

I'm not actively using crypto, but I'd like to do that. Now there are enough websites and online stores on the Internet where you can pay crypto, but I would also like to have the opportunity to pay it in everyday life.

My most common used of Cryptocurrency is to trade for Fiat, and also get to make some transactions from companies and other organisations.

For me the common use of crypto is convience for fast transaction sending to my family and friends and also i use it to pay bills online system.

the use of cryptocurrencies cuts across different spheres as long as it has an online presence or a digitised system of payment structure. it has been noted that most of the online transactions today are carried out using the cryptocurrency framework and i happen to have all my online transaction within the blockchain space and non other

if I use bitcoin and altcoinstalks that I have. mostly just for investigation bro. because in my country in Indonesia. bitcoin is still banned from using goods in the real world.

Cryptocurrency is an investment for me. In the Philippines we are using the Apps Coins.ph. Through this App, you can monitor daily rates of bitcoin and ethereum. That is where I buy prepaid loads which I use for my internet. I also use it to pay bills like credit cards and electric bills.

At present the most common is for investment and some become short-term trading capital. I think everyone will think the same, because cryptocurrency is the future of digital money so that investment from now on hopes that prices will rise and make big profits.
If it is used to pay for buying goods in my country it is not permissible, so it is most common for investment. The regulation of cryptocurrency central bank is only for investment, not payment instruments. Therefore if it is used as a means of payment it means illegal actions.

I simply use it as a store of value or an asset. For instance with bitcoin, I buy when it is low and wait for a bull. I also use it as source of exchange for cash.

In my country don't use cryptocurrency. Therefore, for me, the ETH is only as holding, investment and exchange for fiat. Although it would be nice to hold it as part of the savings in the retirement account.

I personally use cryptocurrencies to make other cryptocurrencies (speculation, trading) and to buy amazon vouchers  ;D