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Originally Posted by Hammer
You live in countries where your currency is debasing by 50% or even 300% a year you may take Bitcoin more seriously. There is a set supply, none of this printing out of thin air which leads to these horrific inflation figures. You legally can not own a stable (ish) currency like the dollar. Numerous countries which have frozen the bank accounts of their citizens without warning due to the financial chaos that they themselves are responsible for.
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That's fine if and only if you can buy things directly with Bitcoin. I.e., it actually becomes a functional currency. Otherwhise it does no good. The likelihood of that happening in countries run that poorly on the financial side is ... not high, to be kind about it.