just read this article:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/salaries-paid-in-bitcoin-a-growing-trend-in-canada-1.2752441then switched over to the comments, let me summarize em here.
The_Voice:
"The solution is simple: Just don't work for any company that wants to use "bitcoin" to escape its financial obligations to pay an employee in real dollars."Noharass
"When Bitcoin goes bust, I hope the Canadian government does not bail these people out of their financial mess."booyakasha
"These people will end up broke one day and will be on here crying about the rest of us needing to pay more taxes to support their social welfare programs."Jordan
"I wouldn;t do anything more than virtual work for such virtual money..."nexxtep54
"Any savvy techie with the proper software and code can make his own coin and steal yours. No thanks."Abdul Rahman Hussein
"why take bitcoin? bitcoins are shit, in my opinion.
It is based on the what people believe on it value and it is electronic.
which means that when blackout or hacker can wipe your wallet clean. The chance of that happen is more likely, than hyperinflation or economic collapse. Also Canadian dollar are backed up by gold reserve and protect by the government as a legal tender. Bitcoin has none.Also , big bank spend huge loads on internet security and bitcoin has none."norain
"Dont go boo hooing to the goverment when you wake up with a empty screen one day. You have to be crazy to accept this rubbish. Like any ponzi scam it will come down. You wait some hacker is working on this as we speak. Your going to be sorry for messing with this junk and thats what you own is junk. what a waste of hard work. It really should be named bite coin because thats what its going to do bite you !"sachmo
"Bitcoin started by an unknown in 2009 and people are buying into it. I think there is going to be a lot people either very broke or very disappointed in the end. Someone is making money here and it probably isn't the average Joe.".... sums up how 'Average Joe' thinks... and why Bitcoin (and even worse Altcoins) never truly went to mainstream acceptance within 5 years and most likely never ever will
~CfA~
Two problem:
1. The information source.
2. The demographic of the people that get information from that source.
Stepping past people with low awareness IQ, i'm sure the world is split, a much better sociological analysis would be the take up of say for example an Ecuadorian issued digital currency.
So that would be a much better measure of where malleable "people" are with regard to their "energy tokens"
as people become more "self aware" education plays a part, that of course still doesn't help Bitcoin the doomed monopoly crypto.