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The incentive is that bitcoin is (for some uses) superior to existing payment/wealth storage technology even if you can’t make a bunch of money on it.

• dleslie 9y ago
  It really isn't. If my physical wallet is stolen I can call my bank and have the cards cancelled and interim charges reversed; and I am guaranteed fraud protection at their expense. If my BTC wallet is stolen I'm fucked.
  • posterboy 9y ago
    that is unless the bank themselves are fraudsters.
  • DennisP 9y ago
    Personally, the more I use my cryptocurrency hardware wallet, the more I feel horrified that in legacy systems I make payments by giving merchants the ability to withdraw as much of my money as they want. It's a fundamentally insecure system, made sort of workable by layering on hacks like manual overrides, statistical fraud protection, and banks just eating the losses.