I read it as C) the currency dies in its current form but the algorithm/concept lives on in the form of other alts - not necessarily in existence yet.

"Bitcoin has no intrinsic value, unlike paper money"

You're right of course but if you don't present a case or any arguments it just sounds like a case of "not invented here syndrome", hence the troll calls.

Back to the OP, Wikipedia accepting BTC would certainly raise the profile of crypto, we're talking about the 5th most popular site on the web, and certainly many non-tech types value it and donate IME.

As with the other "...not involved anymore" quote you have to put this in the context of the conversation, i.e. asking an engineer if he could engineer something is a pretty pointless question.

So we're still at: Proof: Zero, Conjecture: Off the scale.

You're kidding right? Petitions make no difference? http://www.avaaz.org/en/highlights.php or http://www.change.org/victories. Enough signatures and they will without doubt pay attention, companies like Apple take their PR very seriously.

The gotcha is you need to get in the 100k sigs mark which is difficult with something as niche as bitcoin, got to try though right? Oh and ditch/jailbreak your iToys too of course, you throw everything at them...

http://www.change.org/petitions/apple-allow-bitcoin-wallets-on-the-iphone

Think this needs a bump, only 5503 supporters? Get signing eh.

Mine have usually gone through at Bitstamps end in 48 hours + a couple more days to get to your bank account.

I'm new around here but thanks for posting this link ... it really struck a chord as I managed to lose a bunch of BTC recently (though nothing like this guy!) trying to play the market game of selling high and buying low intra-day... thinking I knew better. Tough lesson to learn but in future I'll sit on my remaining stash and encourage anyone else to think long and hard before trying this.