&quot;Personally, I’m in favor of global adoption, but I don’t really care if it is used for more than just settlement.&quot;<p>If you want global adoption, why not go all the way?<p>Personally, I will never use bitcoin unless I have to, because I don&#x27;t trust much currency these days, much less a currency&#x2F;ETF that is used for illegal activities, that you had to &quot;get in early&quot; to make any money off of, and that people have had problems with or need to hack clients for because of problems with its definition.<p>I think eventually we will &quot;regress&quot;, although I cringe using that word because I think it was always a better option, to trading and bartering directly without some flawed and inappropriate way to represent value.<p>The things that really matter for trade are basically services, products, resources, or food, etc. for sustenance. We should be able to share these things, and for those that don&#x27;t want to share or want a workable system around sharing, they can trade.<p>Sure, our society&#x27;s not really setup for this anymore at global scale, although we do trade services and products both at micro and macro levels. But, I think if we keep relying on (virtual) currency or similar, whether it be dollars, euros, yen, rubles, bitcoin, or anything else, then we are just setting the chessboard for something to completely screw the system.<p>In the end, there are things that matter, and things that don&#x27;t. Money for the sake of money never mattered. And even if you think it matters, you don&#x27;t matter to it. Love and life are what matters. There is no virtual currency for those things.