...currently.
I don't think most people are interested in Bitcoin primarily because of the utility it currently provides and the infrastructure that has so far been built.
I don't think most people are interested in Bitcoin primarily because of the utility it currently provides and the infrastructure that has so far been built.
There is merit to the system, but a lot of people just don't care.
At any rate, there need not be any point to what I'm saying. Sometimes, a comment is just a comment.
Before you get too gleeful though, I would wager only a small percentage of people who have ever bought Bitcoins have sustained a loss as of today. Besides, there's nothing wrong with putting money behind a technology and then reaping either a gain or a loss based on how successful it becomes.
My actual point was that you can't look at what the fee structure / usability / etc is today and conclude there's nothing useful there.
This is especially true with the more common argument of, "Sure, I can see why someone would find it mildly useful for use a, b, or c; but I don't think it's useful today for more mainstream purpose x, y, or z, so I think it's worthless." Especially when (so far) the abc list keeps growing and the xyz list keeps shrinking. I'm not sure where that trajectory ends, but I personally think there's a lot of interesting problems that will be solved with crypto-currency.