[derekmhewitt]

This was an interesting article, thanks for sharing it.

But as an average consumer and amateur investor (at best) I'm much more interested in using Bitcoin (and other digital currencies) as a medium of exchange rather than as a store of value. For short term transactions (ex: exchange fiat for bitcoin -> transfer bitcoin to recipient) digital currencies offer a very fast, secure, and simple method for transferring value across borders that would traditionally take much longer than a few ticks of the blockchain. And over that shorter term their value is relatively stable and suitable as a medium for such exchanges.