The dumbest thing about this video was the actors using physical bitcoins to buy things in the video. Yeah I know Casascius coins have existed, and paper wallet sweeping is totally legitimate applications of bitcoins in the physical world, , but it is a slap in the face and confusing to non-bitcoiners to see the guy pickup some sort of bitcoin coin on the ground and then spend it by paying for something in the same way you might hand someone a 1 dollar coin. Its unrealistic and confusing.
Yeah I totally get your point. It was more symbolic than anything. I have a casascius coin which I wanted to use really just as a hat-tip to Mike Caldwell (but you couldn't really tell what it was on camera), but mainly having a physical coin just looked better for video.
