Bitcoin can be even safer to spend online than credit cards, since you're not handing the merchant your card number which they can turn around and use at their

Bitcoin can be even safer to spend online than credit cards, since you're not handing the merchant your card number which they can turn around and use at their whim. For that to be a reality, we need to combine hardware wallets (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hardware_wallet https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hardware_wallet http://www.bitcointrezor.com/ http://www.bitcointrezor.com/), the new payment protocol (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0070 https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0070), and escrow transactions (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Escrow_Service https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Escrow_Service), but the result would be pretty awesome.