Mining difficulty explodes. Bitcoin user unaffected.
If someone needs to be in on the production of the money supply in order to use the money, we have a conceptual flaw.
miner != regular user
over a hundred years ago when any man and his son could go out and mine for gold.. everyone got their hands in.. now are the days of the excavators, and people moved on to open shops, manufacturing and other methods of income to support themselves..
this is that time with the bitcoin economy. a swing away from mining, and into manufacturing/retailing for bitcoins is where people need to concentrate their profiting minds