Neither of those things are about to happen. Not in a month, not in two, not in 6. There's nothing on the horizon for bitcoin, and that's what this thread was started for. The mining boom is over. Silk Road is out of the bag. We had a huge scandal that met the ADHD attention span of the mainstream media. It's done for the long term.
We have a lot of patience though. I don't care if it takes 5, 10 years to adopt bitcoin on larger scale. There isn't any hurry. Look how Linux started, or any other open source project.And well, I find that admirable. I think if you're really behind something like this you should be in it as a life goal. I have no gripes against you for that at all.
Unfortunately there's a lot of kids here who are wasting their time and money gambling on something that's patently incompatible with modern society and culture. Not only that, but the very fundamental infrastructure and programming of bitcoin "1.0" is absurd and poorly thought out.
In fact I belive in an eventual viable crypto-currency, WITH global adoption. I'm actually a supporter of a One World Government (I actually believe we already have one by defacto standards of operation) and obviously there will need to be an currency that transcends geography.
Bitcoin 1.0 isn't it though, and I feel it's useless to continue wasting kids time with it.
Though it sure is cool as hell to pay off a bit of your gaming rig with it, I'll agree.
