Again you misunderstand the original purpose of BItcoin it was never seen as a replacement for healthy currencies it can be used to buy a coffee at various places using the lightning network (it is fast and simple with lightning anyway ) but use will be limited because people see no need .It is used much more in situations as a replacement for local hyperinflated currencies in such as venezuala at the moment where you have this situation.
(Venezuela) Last week volume traded in Localbitcoin was 1,356 BTC (down from almost 2,000) . One BTC is around 3,300,000 BsS (all time high). Monthly minimum is 4,500 Bs or 4.6 USD.
Hi guys, the low volume was because of Christmas and New Year Eve (Here 24,25,31 DEC and 1JAN are non working days).
It is crazy how the price rise daily. There is a traditional bread here, with olives, raisins and smoked ham. Mid November price was around 2,500 BsS. (Bolivares soberanos) now it is around 7,000 BsS.
Every day you need even more money (USD) to live. Inflation surpassed the exchange rate.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-venezuela-cafe-con-leche-index/
https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/VES/BTC
The manifest of the original cypherpunks who worked with nakomoto on creating it was anarchistic creating the crypto anarchist movement .I suspect but dont know influenced by the linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks/may-crypto-manifesto.html
Before you write them off as a bunch of nuts think on this the internet today as we know it would not exist without their work .
Tim May himself solved a major problem with integrated circuits which kept blowing up
As an engineer, May was most noted for having identified the cause of the "alpha particle problem", which was affecting the reliability of integrated circuits as device features reached a critical size where a single alpha particle could change the state of a stored value and cause a single event upset. May realized that the ceramic packaging that Intel was using, made from clay, was very slightly radioactive.[3][4]Intel solved the issue by increasing the charge in each cell to reduce its susceptibility to radiation[5] and adopting plastic packaging for their product
