Because you have begun to see every statement that doesn't hail it as a rampaging success as an attack? I think Varion is greatly overstating the success and usefulness of bitcoin.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mainstream
a prevailing current or direction of activity or influence
Prevailing means it has defeated something... so I cannot say bitcoin has done that. I cannot say it has really changed the direction of anything. You can try and strawman or slippery slope all you want, but none of the places I shop at accept bitcoin outside of internet shops like amazon. Until bitcoin is as widely accepted as say credit cards are now, I do not feel it has prevailed at anything. I do not feel it is the current direction people are going. I think stores are supporting it online because they like money and it is fairly easy to support. That is part of what the credit card companies take out of the payments, the convenience fee as it were. I get your arguments against that! My favorite doughnut shop has politely asked me before to pay in cash to avoid credit card companies taking a cut, and I pay them in cash.
I am not here to piss in your cheereos, I don't see bitcoin as anything more than a curiosity and don't really care one way or another as it doesn't effect me. An expression comes to mind "
what does that have to do with the price of rice in china?" As in, it isn't even important to me, I am just raising an issue with the "THROUGH THE MOON" overly optimistic nature things are posted here. It is not some pot of gold, it is a thing which if it IS mainstream I will see more often and am likely to adopt if I feel it is convenient. However, it is currently largely useless to me as I cannot use it anywhere but a few select places online. SO I do not agree with the likelihood that it'll be mainstream.
I think it is VERY silly that you guys get so up in arms with it. I might be wrong, I might be right,
it doesn't really matter we are just talking.
