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      "body": "*“Bitcoin sounds cool, but why should I use it?”*\n\nMost Bitcoin enthusiasts hear something like this when attempting to introduce friends and family to Bitcoin. Bitcoin is exciting, but it’s not immediately clear to most people why Bitcoin is important or useful. Remember, Bitcoin is two things:\n\n - a currency (bitcoin with lowercase ‘b’)\n - a payment system and network (Bitcoin with capital ‘B’)\n\nAnyone who uses Bitcoin must see a benefit in using bitcoin as a currency over existing fiat currencies, or in using Bitcoin as a payment system over existing systems like PayPal or credit cards.\n\n**Why use bitcoin the currency?**\n-----------------------------\n\nBitcoin the currency was the first of its kind: a global, decentralized [cryptocurrency](https://www.weusecoins.com/en/alt-coins/). While this sounds strange, it actually makes sense. 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Assuming the number of Bitcoin user’s continues to grow, the [price of one bitcoin](https://www.weusecoins.com/en/bitcoin-price/) must increase in order to absorb new investors and users. Like gold, commodities with fixed supplies retain value by providing stability and predictability to investors.\n\n**No Capital Controls**\n\nCapital controls are another topic that most western countries don’t understand or care about. But for citizens in countries like Greece or Cyprus, capital controls are real and limit how people can use their own hard-earned money.\n\nBecause Bitcoin is just a network and not controlled by a single authority, there are no send limits and no transactions can be blocked. [Bitcoin may be the only way](https://www.weusecoins.com/ten-reasons-hire-bitcoin/) to send an unlimited amount of money anywhere in a place with capital controls.\n\n**Why Use Bitcoin as a Payment System?**\n----------------------------------------\n\nWe live in a digital world. You can video chat with a friend in China while you’re in Europe in a matter of seconds. But, how would you send that same person $1,000 in the same amount of time? You couldn’t. With Bitcoin, it’s possible to send money from anywhere in the world, to anywhere in the world, all in a matter of seconds.\n\n**Bitcoin is Fast and Global**\n\nAll that’s needed to send or receive Bitcoin is a [Bitcoin wallet](https://www.weusecoins.com/en/find-the-best-bitcoin-wallet/), which can be downloaded on your computer, phone or tablet. Once two parties have a wallet, the recipient simply shares an address with the sender. Once the payment is sent, the recipient receives the bitcoins in a matter of seconds. Again, it doesn’t matter where these two people are located. Bitcoin is global and works anywhere in the world.\n\n**Bitcoin is More Private than Existing Payment Systems**\n\nAs mentioned earlier, all that’s needed to send or receive Bitcoin is a digital wallet. 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