...compared to say u.s. dollar bills which you can hold in your hand or stuff in your mattress.
this is why bitcoins will not go mainstream because majority of human beings on this planet do not have access to a computer.
successful gold standards are things like toyota trucks, ak-47's, u.s. c-notes which thrive in places like afghanistan and africa.
Bitcoin had already succeeded in its concept as a digital currency,the massive adoption and the fluctuation of price or value have already soared,no matter how other people deal with it,even if it will not became the mainstream currency in the whole wide world,it already prove that it has reaches to its peak even if many people cannot have any access to the internet.
As this trend will go further and the technology also arises most probably bitcoin would stay its parameters,and we will see how this performs in the market.