Re: "In 5 or 10 years I think every online retailer will accept Bitcoin." -Gavin

I admire Gavin's optimism and if everything goes to plan I think he will be right, but I'm not so convinced myself though I hope I'm just being sceptical. I guess we can only wait and see what te future holds for bitcoin.

actually he is very pessimist, and very conservative on his words, if you look at bitcoin now, bitcoin can achieve such objective in a far less than 5 years, hell i could say the next year is perfect for achieving all the great aiming which bitcoin needs

Less than 5 years is impossible. The shortest amount will be atleast 5 years and Gavin is correct in this . As we can see, there are only small numbers of retailer that accepts bitcoin now. For the whole online retailer to accept bitcoin it will take a lot of years and also we can see that only a small number of people that know bitcoin now

Amph rarely knows what he's talking about but will feel compelled to offer his drivel at any opportunity, but you're likely more right than he is. If bitcoin was going to go mainstream this fast it would have already happened. 5-10 years is a reasonable guesstimate and even that isn't guaranteed, but of course I would like it to be much less than that but the mainstream sadly isn't as excited about btc as I am.