This is precisely why bitcoin adoption is not higher. By categorizing bitcoin as a security and not accepting bitcoin as a denomination for taxes or any calculation of taxes due it is effectively an extra unnecessary cog in every single system it is a part of. Any company doing legitimate business has to record every transaction they make in the denomination of their governments chose currency. It goes from a simple “I sold 5 pencils for X dollars” to “I sold this pencil for 1 bitcoin which is equal to X dollars on the date I sold it then made/lost Y dollars by converting back to dollars at a later date in order to pay taxes and buy more pencils, and spent Z dollars to trading fees in doing so.” So really at minimum we’ve gone from a single clear amount, to now having at minimum 3 separate records to make the same transaction. Bitcoin can never be as simple and efficient as an actual currency when you have to convert it anyways at some point.
I'd say the demand for most large currencies comes from the ability to buy stuff with them and being able to speculate on changes in value amongst them. The daily trillion dollar in FX trades are not tax motivated.
