Bitcoins are not an investment. They are an investment fad that someday could be a real digital currency, but if they continue to behave as they have, they will instead be nothing.
If there is one currency that helped Wikileaks take on the might of the U.S. Government, it was Bitcoins.
After PayPal, I never thought I would get interested in payments again. But bitcoin is fulfilling PayPal's original vision to create 'the new world currency.'
If bitcoin is more expensive or slower than traditional financial systems, people aren't going to use it.
It's probably easier and cheaper to counterfeit hundred-dollar bills than it is to counterfeit Bitcoin.
Most 'digital currencies' are not really digital currencies at all.
The one place that bitcoins seem to be used as money is in crime.
We will not allow the use of crypto-currency as a surrogate money.
