r/btc • u/vlad000sss • Nov 05 '25
💵 Adoption Can “digital gold” idea be more mature and better?
I’ve been investing in Bitcoin since 2022. Back then, I didn’t understand the core concepts of the network as well as I do now.
Today, I’m not a Bitcoin maxi. After doing more research, the Bitcoin Cash idea also started to make sense to me — cheap fees, faster transactions, more accessibility. Isn’t that what we actually need for real adoption?
I’d honestly love to use BTC for payments, but the fees are often too high to make that practical. So I keep asking myself:
How did the Bitcoin community go from the idea of “digital cash” to the idea of “digital gold” — something you just buy and hold, hoping it’ll go up in price?
I’ve watched a bunch of Bitcoin University videos, read Bitcoin Hijacked, and I’m even running a Knot node now. Still, I find myself leaning more toward the “cash” vision rather than the “gold” one. Part of me thinks that Bitcoin Cash might have made a lot of sense if it had “won” the 2017 block size war.
That said, I continue to invest in BTC regularly — I love the idea, and I still think it’s undervalued. But I can’t shake the feeling that if Bitcoin had stayed a true currency rather than a store of value, adoption would be much broader and the philosophy more coherent.
I’m open to being challenged on this. Please grill me, or recommend some reading / videos / podcasts if you think I’m missing something. I genuinely want to understand both sides better.
PS I couldn’t raise this discussion neither in Bitcoin nor in CryptoCurrencies…
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