[phippsbrad]

This person is just crazy. The whole point of a "currency" is to use it for a consistent trade of goods. Sure, you may say the US dollar or the Euro is not "consistent". But those change over a timespan of years. $100 today is $100 tomorrow. Yes, the dollar may go up 0.01% one day, and there is inflation which may be up to 3% per year. Bitcoin has no such sonsistency now, and may never have it. 0.01% a day? 3% a year? Ha! I have seen the value of bitcoin jump +/- 300% in ONE DAY.

It's just not rational to think you could live a "normal" life when ALL of your finances are jumping around in the extremes that bitcoin experiences.