Bitcoin is NOT like a corporate product with massive marketing campaigns and streamlined distribution. It's obviously easier to use your existing credit cards and bank account.
However, unlike credit cards and banks, Bitcoin works to your benefit.
Bitcoin frees you from nonsense such as:
- Having your account closed without any choice
- Unfair or inappropriate fees
- Unwanted surveillance and tracking from banks (what you do with your money should be only your private business!)
- Comparitively fast and cheap global transactions
And Bitcoin helps promote:
- Healthy, non-inflating currency
- Step towards government spending control to reduce funding for unconstitutional wars and excessive government waste
- Step towards stronger middle class and less poverty
- Power in your hands, not banks or governments
And so, yes, it is often harder and more complicated to use Bitcoin. It's easy to just sit around and complain that Bitcoin is too hard to use. It's too often looked at from a commercial campaign perspective. Bitcoin vs Credit Cards. Bitcoin vs Google Wallet. But using Bitcoin is something that primarily benefits you to figure out. It is not in the best interest of big corporations or government. It is the money of the people.
I wish people would understand what a wonderful free contribution Bitcoin is to the world of finance and economy, and appreciate whatever already does exist for it.
It will get better, but it's going to be a largely grassroots effort. Companies such as Bitpay, Circle, Coinbase, Overstock, and such all help towards things to some extent, but it's core values and benefits only make sense to be pushed by you the actual user of Bitcoin. That's what these companies are responding to. Assuming that you say the benefits are worth it.
And maybe it just sounds like a pipe dream, but I'd like to think that it's always worth the tiny unhindered baby steps towards world peace. How can it not?