Bitcoin has seen a lot of turmoil since its inception. What I feel lacking is the real world applications for it. There are few but not enough I guess. With that not there it's easy for someone to correlate buying bitcoins for anything other than using it in day-2-day life. And that includes money laundering
For example this bank asking customers what is the purpose of bitcoin
https://news.bitcoin.com/bank-threatens-to-close-customers-account-for-buying-bitcoin/Do you think there should be more usages for bitcoin introduced or perhaps I don't have the right impression (if so then it seems I am not alone)?
Also, I mostly see community veterans recommending to HODL but never recommending to spend it in place of Fiat money. Won't that will help more than just HODLing it?