by The Dharma Bum » Sat Dec 07, 2013 11:37 pm
Eventually the kinks in procuring and using crypto will be worked out. By that point the price will have stabilized and it will be in more general use as a currency.
The inherent value of bitcoins is that it needs no administration and it's totally a transparent ledger system. You don't actually own currency units you have transactions credited to your account that come from a chain of transactions that can be traced back to the time it was minted by anyone by simply looking at the blockchain.
So small transaction fees etc. No money is stored or transmitted. It's an inherently better system in which to transact business, winchester. That is why it will come to be dominant in the end.
It's using those newfangled computers to record transactions rather than shells or pieces of paper.