Bitcoin encourage spending and not hoarding

[serjent05]

To the people who say that we should spend more please point to us where we could spend our BTC on. There really are not that many merchants online and offline that accept BTC. Believe me, a lot of us would love to spend some BTC but theres no good place to spend them to. All the good products can be paid by credit card or cash. So why not use that? It is much easier and I can save BTC at the same time.

People will spend bitcoin by converting them to fiat money, then the barrier of limited option to buy is changed to variety of option.  I believe that converting Bitcoin to fiat currency is the same as spending it buying a currency.  So there is no difference whether you buy in bitcoin or fiat currency form the converted bitcoins.  As long as there are third party processor I don't think that the option where to spend bitcoin is limited.

[Vaccinus]

you see now that bitcoin has a greater value it's more easy for everyone to spend 0.03/0.05 more than one times, instead of spending a greater amount, like 0.2/0.3 few times, when btc has a low value such a $250
so i think the greater is the value of bitcoin, the more people will spend it

what you think?

you are not making any sense in my opinion.
because prices per se` doesn't change the fact that people spend or not. bitcoin price can be 1 million dollar and people spend it the same as if it were 1 dollar.

what changes people's mindset to spend or not are only two things:
1- volatility
2- number of places to spend bitcoin.

it's a mentality thing in my opinion

[richardsNY]

To the people who say that we should spend more please point to us where we could spend our BTC on. There really are not that many merchants online and offline that accept BTC. Believe me, a lot of us would love to spend some BTC but theres no good place to spend them to. All the good products can be paid by credit card or cash. So why not use that? It is much easier and I can save BTC at the same time.

People will spend bitcoin by converting them to fiat money, then the barrier of limited option to buy is changed to variety of option.  I believe that converting Bitcoin to fiat currency is the same as spending it buying a currency.  So there is no difference whether you buy in bitcoin or fiat currency form the converted bitcoins.  As long as there are third party processor I don't think that the option where to spend bitcoin is limited.

Whether you spend your coins at stores that accept Bitcoin through BitPay for example, or cash out your coins to fiat and then spend them, there is indeed no real difference. In both cases the coins get converted to fiat. Other than that, people nowadays mostly use Bitcoin for investment purposes and not really to spend them. Right now we're in very exciting times with the recent increase to where we are right now. People expect an even bigger increase to happen, so the majority of the people will surely not spend much.

[Rahar02]

you see now that bitcoin has a greater value it's more easy for everyone to spend 0.03/0.05 more than one times, instead of spending a greater amount, like 0.2/0.3 few times, when btc has a low value such a $250
so i think the greater is the value of bitcoin, the more people will spend it

what you think?

How you are connecting this two things together? 

I don't think spending will have any connection with value of bitcoin other than the one who are holding bitcoin from really long time so they will have more in fiat, and they may tend to spend more in terms of fiat.

I think what encourage spending is back to how much merchants that accepted bitcoin in your neighborhood/city/country, if you don't have any option to spend than hoarding is one of your choice in case of savings or waiting for more stores accepted bitcoin payment.
For now fiat money become a major payment method on daily basis because it's an official and accepted currency for everyone, same thing will happen to bitcoin if we have more adoption and more stores accepted bitcoin, but I hope there is no regulations that prohibits bitcoin payment in my country in the future.

[pinkflower]

What most of us who fail to see the real situation is if everyone wants to make people spend their BTC then they must first earn their salaries or business profits in BTC. Most of us here do not have real jobs that earn in BTC except for a few free lance jobs and signature campaigns that does not pay enough. Some people have use fiat to buy BTC so of course they are waiting for it to go up in value.

[pooya87]

you see now that bitcoin has a greater value it's more easy for everyone to spend 0.03/0.05 more than one times, instead of spending a greater amount, like 0.2/0.3 few times, when btc has a low value such a $250
so i think the greater is the value of bitcoin, the more people will spend it

what you think?

when you buy bitcoin you buy it with fiat for example if you want to buy $250 right now you get ~0.333BTC and then you spend accordingly also.
the only difference is only for those who have bought it long ago when price was a lot lower for example back when it was $400 or $200 but if you are regular spender it really doesn't matter how much the price is.

[Vaskiy]

you see now that bitcoin has a greater value it's more easy for everyone to spend 0.03/0.05 more than one times, instead of spending a greater amount, like 0.2/0.3 few times, when btc has a low value such a $250
so i think the greater is the value of bitcoin, the more people will spend it

what you think?

As quoted the increasing price have helped to spend more compared to the days of low bitcoin price. What needs to be considered is the price hikes, during the same time period commodity price hikes were high. This makes the spending on needs when bitcoin price at $250 and right now the same with small variations.

[CyberKuro]

I would rather say, the higher the value is ... the less people will spend Bitcoin .... they would rather convert it to fiat and then spend it. The

value of Bitcoin does influence the spending habits of the people, but they actually buy less Bitcoin when the price is high. When they start

selling at high prices... the exchanges gets flooded with BTC and the price goes down again.  

A lot of people here have the same thought, so whenever the price rise and then fall down in the next day.
But, I stand on the other side and choose not to sell my bitcoin instead of spending it directly on the shops/stores.
Unfortunately there is no any stores nearby yet, I will wait and open one in the future hopefully people would get more familiar with bitcoin and using it to spend and not just hoarding.

[Przemax]

Increased price of anything doesnt encourage spending it sadly. Not in the real world  at least. If people expect to have more by doing something, they will likely do it. In this case hoarding the bitcoins. Such are the simple laws of economics.

[Vaccinus]

Increased price of anything doesnt encourage spending it sadly. Not in the real world  at least. If people expect to have more by doing something, they will likely do it. In this case hoarding the bitcoins. Such are the simple laws of economics.

i know that i'm spending more now than when bitcoin was at $250