It takes no effort to become a lol-punctuating script kiddie, just spend lots of time in the right IRC channels.  The guys finding the exploits are brilliant, I have nothing but respect for them.  The skids infesting grandma's machine with botnet malware not so much.

And you utterly missed my point.   If a successful IT pro is "doing it wrong" what hope does Mr. Joe Average have?  It's interesting that you accuse Shinobi of being a woman with the implication that women are too stupid to use computers and by extension bitcoin.  There goes 55% of your target market if not more.

Anyay, back to my personal anecdote.  Between the two of us we've delivered everything from ICU hardware (ventillators, cardiac monitors, etc) to Mars mission planning software to phone switches to brokerage middleware.  I'm going out on a limb to say our ability to learn and understand things programmable is a bit more advanced than most.  And yet, in spite of taking *reasonable* precautions we still got 'pwned' by skids.

There's a spectrum between perfect security and perfect convenience.  The problem with providing the extreme level of security needed to feel good about keeping more than a trivial amount of money in bitcoins the coinvenience is waaaaaay outside what your average scrub like myself will put up with.

Until user friendly front ends complete with *reversible transactions* to deal with people's mistakes as well as fraud you won't have mainstream dogpiling on this.  And without mainstream it'll remain a fun and quirky niche product -- not that there's anything wrong with that.  Just saying you may wish to temper your expectation of explosive price growth just yet.