You know i just wish the government came in and raided gox, like they did egold or liberty dollar.   

Why do we need exchanges?  Will it really accelerate adoption?  Or does it just link in an ugly feedback loop.

1) Publicity surrounding Bitcoin grabs attention
2) A bunch of open minded people show up genuinely wanting to learn about it
3) A bigger bunch of fast money speculator just post question about how to buy and if they think selling a kidney to buy more coin at ever rising prices is too conservative of an investment "strategy" for Bitcoin
4) Exchanges off the quick fix to get your coins in a quicky, without developing ties to the community, and really learning what the project is all about
5) Wild Price swings
6) People get burned
7) Media hypes crash, trumps up Ponzi scheme/Pyramid myths
All the new folks run away except a handful of highly introspective people
9) Net ranks of true believers only grow slightly, against a hoard of people who will say terrible things about us and never come back
10) Net loss for all involved

They say in business, one dissatisfied customer cancels out 10 happy customers.  What's our happy/dissatisfied ratio among all the new folks of the last few months?

Without exchanges we need to show people how it works man-man.  Put on PR events, sell token amounts of coins to folks with our phones.  Enough to get them interested, engaged, then down the rabbit hole they come.   Our numbers would grow more slowly, but more firmly.  And newbies wouldn't have a daily ticker to watch shoot up or down, and exchange crashes to burn them. 

In short, our community can't handle the influx of so many new people.  This needs to be a ground-up, grass roots movement.  It may take 2 decades to get enough people using it that we hit a critical mass and it becomes a usable system for commerce.

Maybe it was this direction that pissed Satoshi off.  Its more important that people seriously learn about Bitcoin and what it can do for humanity, instead of learning about what speculative bubbles and what getting Goxxed is all about.

Black hat hackers need Bitcoin to be around. It makes many things very easy that was impossible or extremely hard before Bitcoin. Black hat hackers understand how Bitcoin works and don't attemt to attack the network because it will not be possible to profit or damage.

The white hat suckers might attack the bitcoin because suit or government asks them to do so and because Bitcoin is used by black hats and SR.

Who is the enemy of Bitcoin now?

Traditionally the meaning of blackhat is someone who hacks for personal gain. That would be the guy or group of guys using DDOS and high frequency trading to boost their own profits at the expense of the network. No I don't think blackhats care about Bitcoin and that is why botnets are being used to mine them.