Some advice if I may....
Don't dismiss the view of other posters who don't conform to your perceived way of debate. Like all forums this place has all sorts and often light hearted humour even on serious threads is the way of things. Push back on that and you will, to use geek parlance, be owned.
I am older than you to so don't come across all experienced and expert, for you often will be debating with people who could eat your lunch for you on these sort of things and you will be made to look an eejit, I speak from experience (of being an eejit). I have also employed many computer consultants over the years, so bare in mind you could also be abusing your boss......though you're not here.
My point about Bitcoins is the proposition is complex and in being that it restricts its demographic to people who seek to take the challenge and by their nature will be of a certain type, lets call them for want of anything better, geeks. The nature of people such as this is sometimes they put passion and knowledge ahead of reality. Now they may be incredibly clever but they lack certain things and I think Bitcoins is something the advocates are hugely passionate about but the people who know in the city are not.
Now of course people will come back and say "what does the city know" but that is their weakness. They own the valuations of 'things' and what a geek may think of them as educated decision makers means nothing, if they want it to work it might, if they don't or it doesn't captivate them or worse, is seen as a risk it won't no matter how hard the advocates believe it should.
I have no idea of if Bitcoins will be an investment engine or not as I am not an investor as such, but I do know it is too complex right now and if that doesn't change I see only failure at the end. But as I say, just an opinion like yours.
