I am well aware of bitcoin, JC, and have considered putting some assets into it, but I am not that computer literate, and am discouraged by the NSA. Plus bitcoins have not found wide acceptance yet, although that is changing fast. I see the banksters continuing to mess with bitcoin, using pump and dump schemes to cause users to doubt the exchange value of the unit, much as they are manipulating the price of gold to cause the masses to refuse to see it as a stable store of value. If you perceive the lengths the US neocons are willing to go to to keep Iran from selling oil in currency other than dollars, and now refusing to allow Iran to sell oil for gold [see this link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-1...lear-work.html], you will understand that the banksters have a stranglehold on the entire world economy, and they will not give it up without a fight, perhaps using nuclear weapons. So I see a rough road ahead for bitcoins...