Quote from: pac1 on May 10, 2013, 05:23:10 PM

I think its being looked at all wrong, its not about collecting, trading and earning millions its about spending and getting the btc economy on the move, a cup of coffe, loaf of bread, fill my car up etc, this needs to be useable to succeed or surely we all end up with a load of useless digicash.

Excellent post.

It is an effect of Gresham's Law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law

For those who don't remember DigiCash
http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/grassmuck/Texts/ecash.e.html

Yes, we do need to spend, and to spend especially with those we value as contributing to the society we are building. Spending deserves thanks and some honor. When I receive bitcoin, it lets me value that customer more.
I feel motivated to do more for the bitcoin community.