I have never purchased bitcoin with usd and it would be a stupid thing to advice others not to purchase it also because that would hurt the value but I would never buy bitcoins. I'm a miner I mine bitcoin I've spent bitcoin multiple times on overstock.com for computer equipment, shampoo and jewelry for the wife. I've also spent bitcoin in las vegas at The D Casino. I've also spent bitcoin to purchase miners from bitmaintech and other locals here in vegas. More and more people are accepting bitcoins now on craigslist and other classifieds.

I think of bitcoin like paypal but with more potential and less centralization. Remember when paypal started getting known to everyone it was crazy to store money online but look what paypal has done for online transactions and think of what the open crypto platform can improve on this so much possibility.