You thought you are the master of the prostitute, actually, she is your master.

When you go all out like this to get my bitcoins, things will then have to be arranged on my terms, and I will make sure you are the sucker in the end.

The only tangible outcome I can see is some form of guerrilla warfare, new fork, alt coin. If bitcoin constantly gets disrupted itself, crytocurrencies will lose all legitmacy.

I want to start a factory turning raw materials into refined widgets and sell them around the world?

How do I determine what these widgets are worth in BTC. Keep in mind I do not enjoy pricing my goods in fiat because the price may get inflated away and I may be put out of business if I am not invested on the correct side of the market.

If I charge my bitcoin in dollar denominated price, All my business agreement and numbers, prices, become a circus to calculate. One day I make a lot of bitcoin. The next day I do same amount of business but bitcoin is worth more so i make less bitcoin(deflation), bernanke stops printing, interest rates rise, bitcoin becomes weak again. People do not spend bitcoin because they do not know what it is worth, and would hate to buy a pizza for 10,000 bitcoins, only to learn that was a dumb dumb idea.

Gold and barter are starting to sound very nice. I am sure some farmers will accept gold/barter/labor for their carrots.

If bitcoin gets bought by the mainstream, our financial issues become EXTREME... Bitcoin might be the ledger to reign in the out of control-ness of the fiat.

Is bitcoin a gift of the gods, or a beginning of the end.  

Anyone moving out of fiat, into cryptocurrency today, I think is a wise hedge/bet. It cost little and its powers are unknown, potentially revolutionary. I am not sure that it speaks to a good future either. It is a litmus for how bad things really are.

Most people will never know or understand hashing, blockchain, encyption, public key/private key. And they will essentially be asked to choose to buy in, not knowing/understanding what it is they are buying..

The dollar was forced on us, therefore we get to use it without understanding it(most people)

So if you are a low level trader for goldman sachs, why not buy a few hundred bitcoins for shits n giggles. CEO's with deep pockets etc etc,

Yeah, they could bid up the price and then buy all or most of us out easily, then crash the market, or whatever. Bernanke is creating $85 billion a month with his little finger. It's nothing to them.

But what would be the point? People could migrate to Litecoin then, or Bitcoin 2. It's just a program and the program is open source. It can be forked or re-started over and over again.

I personally wouldn't mind repeatedly getting paid to invest in crypto.