Either if bitcoin will grow for many years (what i think will happen) or if it will implode at some stage, Libertarianism will gain power in politics.

Here's why:

Libertarians, or people with light to heavy libertarian ideas, are proportionally over-represented among the early investors in/adopters of Bitcoin.

So at some point they will cash out and part of them will become rich, some very. That will give this group of people a way to buy influence, support campaigns of libertarian politicians and so forth, like they never could before.

The world will become a better place.


 

Simple constant growth extrapolation, with linear fit on log scale ->

same % growth for each equal distance horizontal.

https://twitter.com/TeringNering/status/231177017079504896/photo/1

Neglecting the May-Nov 2011 media hype bubble.

 
Realistic?

Hi,

I consider starting a webshop for selling btc.  No trading platform, the shop keeps a stock of btc.
(I'll use only non-reversable real money payment systems, no credit cards for example).

So I need a webshop with interfacing to the bitcoindeamon/wallet.
(The wallet should be setup on another server with message queuing as interface?)

Ideally, also interfacing with mtgox and other price quoting sources.

Any pointers welcome.  (Also programmers who want to setup such thing for me.)

tia

~henq