In my reality bitcoin is used by regular people to book hotels, buy computers or make overseas transfers with near-zero fees.
What 'reality' is this exactly?
The reality a of person involved in international IT business who works with people around the globe.
I know dozens of people, from all walks of life, and no one has even started talking about Bitcoin on his own. I get the impression that almost no one has even heard of it, let alone need it.
I guess if you talked to the people about the Internet in the beginning of 1990s, you would get the same impression.
But then again, your avator betrays your own ideological background. As an ideologist, you likely see things you want to see, even if they do not exist in those quantities or even if they do not exist at all.
To see what caused me to use this avatar, just visit a thread in my signature.
Really harsh what they did to you. I understand what happened and why the EU acted as it did, but that doesn't make your loss less painful. What I do wonder though: was there no single sign about the imminent banking apocalypse down there? I believe I read about the crisis on Cyprus for more than a week before something actually happened there.