Seriously this totally pisses me off! Why are drug dealers using this currency which can be untraceable and unlinkable if proper security measures are taken with it? This is totally going to scare away Grandma Smiths Home Made Cookie vendor from using Bitcoin! And we all know that if it were not for the drug dealers Grandma Smith would totally love to use a complex open source virtual currency peer-to-peer network to accept virtual non-backed currency. Grandma Smith totally has an incentive to use this currency because her customers totally want to learn how to use a complex massive distributed P2P network to send untraceable unlinkable virtual coin payments for their cookies.

On one hand bitcoin could be used as a tool for political activists to resist oppressive states such as China and Libya. On the other hand, bitcoin could be used by political activists (ie: silkroad) to resist oppressive states such as the USA and EU. Much like how Tor can be used as a tool for political activists in China and Libya to resist oppressive states, and can also be used by political activists in USA and EU to resist oppressive states. If Bitcoin is a threat or not largely depends on how brainwashed you are by your respective government. Much like Tor, Bitcoin is a weapon against statists in general. The government will love using it to attack other governments, and will fear it being used to attack their own power over their own slaves.