My community has quite a few businesses that gladly take bitcoin, at whatever valuation. Unfortunately when the price is on the upswing people don't want to spe

My community has quite a few businesses that gladly take bitcoin, at whatever valuation. Unfortunately when the price is on the upswing people don't want to spend it because it'll be more profitable to hold it, and when it's holding steady they don't want to spend it because they feel it could take off at any instant, and if it's crashing they don't want to spend it because that would lock in their losses and they'd rather wait for it to recover. Hopefully one day it will stabilize enough to be worthwhile as a currency. We're certainly not there yet, but it's improving. Despite the spectacular fall in values, this isn't as severe a crash as has happened before, percentage-wise.