It's not only about feeling comfortable using bitcoin, they also need to see advantages about it.

Probably, bitcoin will start to be more popular in countries where there are capital controls and high inflation

Real estate can be a great bet, in the right place (ex. Dubai), in the right moment (2005-2007).

But also can be a nightmare: most part of western world after 2008.

Anyone here has any doubt that the courageous Kerry would return for trial if he was in Snowden shoes? 

I think we can assume there are more than two, perhaps, even more than three. 

My point being, we can not identify a precise number, but with the data that exists, we can project a minimal number with some confidence. 1 million is my minimal number, taking in account the 5 million downloads.

I guess the "she" is Madam Le Pen, the daughter and heir of the one and only Le Pen, who recently told the press that Ebola could be a good way to solve the demographic explosion in Africa.

I imagine that her daughter wasn't kind to him the first opportunity she had to talk with him ("Are you f***ing senile, to tell that to the press? There are true things we can't confess to the press!!).

Both blockchain.info and coinbase announced some time ago that they have more than 1 million accounts.

But, more important, the most popular bitcoin wallet was already downloaded 5,4 million times.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/stats/timeline?dates=2008-11-09+to+2014-05-30

Many people downloaded it several times, other never installed it, but also many bitcoiners never downloaded the wallet and just used online ones.

I would say it's fair to consider that there are at least 1 million bitcoiners, possible as much as 2 million.

Yes, I guess if she was a powerful goddess she could at least make herself look better.

But, perhaps, it was the artists from the paleolithic that didn't make justice to her.

Europeans mixed with Neanderthals. Every European has between 3 and 5% of Neanderthal genes. Yes, Europeans are a very superior and pure race.

The US would be the country who would lose the most, if bitcoin were to take the place of the dollar, at least for international trade, but you think this is all a conspiracy by the NSA.

I think you do overestimate them.

If the criteria of lordship is antiquity, then this lady might be the one (24,000 BC):

We are joking about it, but if bitcoin really goes mainstream, that could have serious economics consequences. That, indeed, could provoke the collapse of the dollar (but even in this case, not the collapse of society).

See the pessimistic view of this member: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=180798.0

I wonder what way people have in mind to end those practices... bomb them all back to the stone age?

Right now, I can't see any event with truly world changing effect in the XXI century.

Not 9/11 and, currently, certainly not bitcoin. But, who knows, some of you might be doing history right now with bitcoin. Perhaps, working on new features: better anonymity, decentralized exchanges...

He already got way more than the promised 15m (Andy Warhol).

Perhaps there is indeed some people paying certain journals against bitcoin.

It seems I'm starting to believe in conspiracies...

"yo no creo en brujas, pero que las hay, las hay".

People can always make new parties.

If those parties are ignored, we have two explanations:

1) The conspiracy one: mass media is bought and paid by capitalists and war mongers and ends up  "Manufacturing Consent" (as Chomsky says; but that theory is old: read Gramsci or Althusser).

2) The democratic one: in reality, people don't trust small new parties, many times with radical ideas, and prefer to vote in the old ones.

Probably, both theories have some true. But anyone arguing for the first, will have a hard time explaining the ascent of neo-nazis and extreme parties in Europe, that clearly have the media against them.

I would like to see him invest his money as easily as he talks.

Why not invest in some shorts? He can end up very rich... if he's right.

Let me reformulate: value can be subjective; some people collect used stamps, for others, they are worthless.

If many people want a rare object, it will increase in price, even if it can be of no practical use.

Bitcoin can be very helpful, but it's use only has indirect importance on the price, because it will be the old law of supply and demand that will decide it.

If Jesus wanted to be Lord of the lords, I wonder why he said the "give to caesar what is caesar's and to god what is god's".

The op is being very tolerant, by now I was expecting that several posts, including some of mine, would already been censured. Since this is a self-moderated thread.

Nothing like a biased perspective of the world to deny everything. Some can even arguing against the Heliocentrism.