Categorization of Bitcoin is never ending discussion. It is a currency, commodity, property? This actually is a problem.
In one country BTC is currency in others commodity and some others are waiting...
Semantics and legal issues are the reasons why we don't have any serious bitcoin legislation in place.
In US bitcoin is classified both as currency (by U.S. Treasury ) and commodity (by Commodity Futures Trading Commission).
How simple people can be smart when even pros have no idea what bitcoin really is?
Bitcoin is an experiment. Need refers to Bitcoin as to any interesting startup in the Internet: can this system change the world, or maybe not. You should understand that investing time and money in new ideas is always a risky enterprise