Note how the politicians and media constantly note that bitcoin is being used for drugs and gambling? Why do you think that is? Its designed to make bitcoin sound like some shady criminal system. Even though the vast majority of people don't use bitcoin for illegal activities.
Obviously most people don't use bitcoin for drugs and gambling, most just trade it on the exchanges. Next would probably be drugs and gambling. Maybe after that is someone ordering a bag of chips over the internet with them?
I'm not saying it won't grow beyond this, but TODAY that's a pretty factual description. Bitcoin desperately needs some legitimate vendors to begin accepting it...
Well the average joe dumbass is reading these articles about how bitcoin is being used for drugs and gambling and then they think that 99% of bitcoin is being used for those activities when in reality its less than 1%.
Thats the problem.