[prostoalex]

> Bitcoin has evolved into a financial-scale product, no longer something one would use to buy $0.50 of potatoes.

Well, before "evolving" so elegantly it was pitched as a replacement to credit/debit card systems (which would charge a whole lot less for a basic $10 transaction), and prior to that as a final answer to micropayments on the Web (I am guessing charging $0.001 to read an article is off the books now). And somewhere along the evolvement it was supposed to be a payment mechanism for calling other people's APIs and various Web services.

What's the next step in this evolution chain? Service for realtors where the transaction fee is 6% of the value of one's house?