Dear John,
you are right on everything. But you forget that we love the idea of a decentralized crypto currency. I don't trust in dollar, yuan or euro. Everyone for a particular reason. The dollar is just printed like the us government needs it. Yuan is good protected and artificial underrated by the chinese government. And the euro isn't safe, because eu isn't really stabilized. Where is the world currency, which we need for a global connected market?
No it isn't bitcoin. But i see it as worldwide crypto currency version 0.1 and somewhere it has to start.
I think the reason why he's wrong, and your wrong for believing him is because bitcoin is not some type of company, or group of people trying to take advantage of an original idea. I think that bitcoins are a divine currency that everyone has equal access to, whether it's praise or concern, this community proves it. We are all bitcoin, bitcoin isn't some exchanger, or business, or group, bitcoin just is, like the Internet itself. We are creating an entirely new web of powerful encrypted transactions that not even the best hackers in the world can crack. Tell me how that's not value people?