We have "to the moon" title periodically.

We do not want the price to the moon instantly. The price should rise depending on the adoption of bitcoin and related technology. Bitcoin should not be a tool for speculation only.

I saw a documentary about one council that was so corrupt people had to use chests of fiat cash to pay it planning permission bribes, suitcases weren't big enough to hold all the money. Do people stop using dirty fiat money because it's used like that? All money, Bitcoin, fiat, gold, is capable of being dirty if it's used like that.

Not to mention Gemini... there are a lot of positive and "bullish" news coming out of the wood work as of right now, and people are acting on it to get coins for cheap before they go above $300-$400... after that, who knows what the price will do.

yeah no advantages, like low fee, privacy, not-hackable while you spent a transaction, sure...

with fiat if you leave your credid card credentials on some website they can still all your funds, with bitcoin it's impossible

Who really uses bitcoin- Ordinay folk like me, use btc to pay bills, buy prepaid cellphone loads, ordering stuff online, online gambling and change to fiat when in need.

Who is the typical bitcoin user- One who has knowledge about crypto, how it works and benefit the system.

Why does it matter- For bitcoin to grow, it needs mainstream adoption.

Unlike fiat money, bitcoin seldom needs to be used, it is a value certificate similar to your bank long term saving account, you might only touch it several years later. Or, you can use it to do international trade with much faster payment time (given that you and your business partner in another country have already established a stable business relationship), but the required skill set is too high for average Joe

drug dealers mostly.

everyone here seems to forget that lots of shady drug dealers acquired tons of bitcoin way before anybody else thanks to dark markets.
 

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iOS + Android + Windows Phone + Blackberry = 99.6% (IDC 2015Q2)

because what he have said, it's not true, there were some heavy restriction in the past, because the government was thinking that there were a possibili for the cny to suffer a devaluation

but then it was permitted, because presumably, they could earn profit from those eexchange

Not everybody owns iPhone.

This is what justice is? Ulbricht gets sentenced to life for being innovative and an entrepreneur. He could also have committed some crimes, but those wouldn't be enough to jail him for life. as for Carl Force, he gets to have only 78 months from stealing, extortion, money laundering and obstruction of justice.
Call it Justice call it what you will...

This is true. But even after Silk Road the use of bitcoin in the Dark Web is enormous. According to CoinDesk "Dark Web Markets Processed More Bitcoin than BitPay in 2014". Following some data from this article:

"... Kyle Soska and Nicolas Christin from Carnegie Mellon University revealed that even by conservative estimates the daily sales volume of six large-scale dark markets reached up to $650,000 in 2014.

The bitcoin merchant processor's self-reported annual total, $158.8m, would produce a daily average of around $435,000."

More can be found here: http://www.coindesk.com/dark-web-markets-processed-more-bitcoin-than-bitpay-in-2014/

So the people have right in thinking that bitcoin is used mainly from the criminals and culprits. The only thing that can fight this is the regulations of bitcoin. In this way, bitcoin will be known by to many other kind of people, will be owned and used by them and will be not more only an illegal currency used by the above firsts people.

As for being more than a financial tool to obtain drugs this is more hard to be understand and explained because even to many of us which have time in learning and using it is hard to find which of its technological qualities can (might) be used or have importance in the real life except being an currency.

Bitcoin as you stated will benefict, this interest of banks at blockhain technology,even they making their own blockhain will bring new costumers that use iphone to acess their accounts will be able one new market and well they will find bitcoin soon and faster.

Using Bitcoin disempowers the current status quo. Bitcoin enables peaceful revolution through co opting of the currency and blockchain technology. The current banking system through quantitative easing acts like hidden taxation and further enables governments to wage wars and other draconian policies, while also increasing inequality. The use and adoption of cryptocurrencies can circumvent these structures of centralized power. I can explain in much greater depth the political potential that Bitcoin has, however let me just say that the changes that it can bring for our civilization are profound to say the least. It was my interest in political philosophy that drew me to Bitcoin initially once I realized its great potential.

To answer your other question, I personally use it to transfer value between myself and people I know, like family and friends. Recently I had somebody help me with building a website and I sent them Bitcoin for that as well. I am also a miner so I have purchased most of my equipment using Bitcoin. I have bought beers at bitcoin meet ups, and other computer components online. I accept Bitcoin at a brick and mortar store I am involved with now, however admittingly we have not had a lot of customers use Bitcoin at our store.

In the Netherlands where I am living at the moment there is a food delivery network that accepts Bitcoin so when I order take aways I almost always pay with Bitcoin, and I do consider it to be faster and more convenient in this case, the website uses BitPay as its payment processor, I have a big TV screen where I do the order on and then I pay with my smartphone using the Airbits wallet, it works very well.

https://www.thuisbezorgd.nl/en/

There are other use cases like remittance and black markets for example. The Wikileaks case is also a good example of an important use case, in short Wikileaks got its funding cut by visa, paypal, mastercard ect. Wikileaks started accepting Bitcoin as an alternative way to receive funding, this was in 2011. This is a good example of how Bitcoin enables more financial freedom through its transactional capabilities.

I use Bitcoin frequently as a currency, and I re buy my Bitcoin when I spend them. I think that the incentives of Bitcoin are working fine, we just need to increase the blocksize, which would make it more expensive to attack Bitcoin by overloading it with transactions. Miners can choose not to include low fee transactions anyway if that is what the situation requires. Higher volume with a lower fee would be better then a lower volume with a higher fee.