It's not all that silly.

evoorhees has purchased very geek centric services I suspect. Bitcoin being geek centric currency, it wasn't hard to find a willing seller of geek services.

But, your average joe... what is he going to buy? Computer parts? probably not.. Speculation investments? probably not.... Drugs... More likely than not.

I think what Charlie means is that your average joe who is not a geek has no use for bit coins except to buy drugs or other black market items.

Did evoorhees benefit in any way by paying in bit coins over fiat funds? Avoiding taxes perhaps? I would speculate that even innocent sounding transactions are in someway illegal or are a benefit for avoiding legal issues that might otherwise be applied if paid in fiat currency.