But I think bitcoin itself has some serious problems. The first is that it hasn’t shown to be a stable source of value. Its price has been highly volatile and it hasn’t yet established itself as a widely accepted transactions medium.
I see a little contradiction right there, because how could be done the value of a coin in the past (Talking about even about romans)? It wasn't stable and that breaks apart that statement... Seriously, somebody can remind me what is so special about this Ben Bernanke?
But the real serious problem that it has is it’s anonymity, which is a feature, and is also a bug, in that it has become in some cases a vehicle for illicit transactions, drug selling or terrorist financing or whatever. And you know, governments are not happy to let that activity happen, so I suspect that there will be oversight of transactions done in bitcoin or similar currencies and that will reduce the appeal.
So if i want to do a simple payment for example because i want to buy something to eat the goverment needs to know it? I don't get the sense of that part.... If somebody could be so kind to explain me that statement i would like appreciate