[hippich]

Just an anecodote:

I recently needed to buy something from a merchant, who was not able to acquire a traditional credit card merchant account, or a business checking account. I had three options to pay to that merchant: cash in the envelope, money order, bitcoin (merchant also run a promotion for bitcoin method of payment, discounting the total of the order by 20% when paid by bitcoin).

Bitcoin turned out the best option out of these three.