> It's supposed to be a currency, but no one's actually using it for currency. They're just gambling on it, hoping to take advantage of other people's mistakes

> It's supposed to be a currency, but no one's actually using it for currency. They're just gambling on it, hoping to take advantage of other people's mistakes to make their own money. It's a zero-sum game, and it's destructive. People are just playing around with the electronic version of Monopoly money. Source for that? I regularly pay for things with BTC, and part of my salary is paid out in BTC. Or are you perhaps mistaking a particular subset of Bitcoin "users" (speculators) for "the entire Bitcoin ecosystem"?