People are exchanging Bitcoins for actual money (USD, Euro, etc) that you can buy food with. Why would I go through the trouble of getting I0coins to trade for bitcoins to then exchange for actual money? (especially considering fees for each level of exchange) Other than the encrypted wallet, what exactly does i0coin and any of these alternative cyrptocurrencies do better than bitcoin when they're from that same source code? The advantage with Bitcoin was that it CAME FIRST. Yes, the adoption of bitcoin was slow and you couldn't do anything except mine and send them around but that's the past when there was no alternative. Explain with a rational logic why a merchant would use i0coin when there is bitcoin (along with namecoin, ixcoin, scamcoin, crapcoin and whatever currency people what to make) already in the market?