> No one treats Bitcoin as a currency. Ask the people who bought hundreds of millions of dollars (without inflation) of drugs on Silk Road, Empire Market, Whit

> No one treats Bitcoin as a currency. Ask the people who bought hundreds of millions of dollars (without inflation) of drugs on Silk Road, Empire Market, White House Market etc since 2013 until now. I am making up hundreds of millions based on the seized Bitcoins by the FBI, the real number probably exceeded Billions a long time ago already. The WannaCry and other ransomware folks don't sit on their millions of dollars of extorted Monero/Bitcoin either. They buy cars and fancy things with them, and that's one reason many of them got arrested. Few real world examples of scams against everyday folks: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=canada+bitcoin+scam https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=canada+bitcoin+... Safeway now has BTC ATMs and we we'll be able to drop "canada" from the query and get good results from the US soon.