Man, I was trying to get in at $55 a BTC and couldn't figure out how to buy them. It's so frustrating that this isn't as liquid as it needs to be. There is a lot of opportunity for coders to get this kind of stuff on the market for us traders !
For anyone new to Bitcoin it definitely seems frustrating trying to figure out the wallets and the exchanges to buy the coins! Thankfully as a Canadian, I was using Libertybit.com who lets you fund your account via email money transfers to make it easy.
Absolutely. Try buying them from South Africa sometime, with all our super-uptight banking regs. Hell, just one of our "big four" local banks offers
PayPal, and they only brought that in a few years ago. We have a local exchange now though, so things are improving!