[tboyd47]

I don't think this is accurate. The main use case for Bitcoin seems to be remittances and savings for the rich and middle-class in countries with unstable currencies, not grocery store payments. Compared to USD, it's cumbersome and expensive, but compared to gold or Western Union, it's clearly better.

[chc]

Do you really believe more Bitcoin is used for this than evading the law?

[tboyd47]

Do you have any data that prove me wrong?

[greenshackle2]

Do you have any data that prove you right?

[true_religion]

I think that believing people are not criminals is the less extra ordinary case, considering how few people are criminals in the first place.

There would have be something extraordinary about bitcoin or the way it was represented to society at large that attracted criminals.

[aminorex]

You don't understand how the law works. You are a criminal. In the u.s., for example, that shining city on a hill, it is estimated that a typical adult commits three felonies on an average day.

[tboyd47]

No, actually, I don't. I was just expressing an opinion backed up by my own evaluation of Bitcoin's strengths. User chc responded with such incredulity that I thought he might have some information I don't.

[greenshackle2]

Ok. Just wondering. I actually have neither opinion nor data on the subject.

[mgberlin]

And compared to Ripple, it's still astoundingly clunky.