[uni_rule]

If the only thing it can accomplish is being traded back and forth for "hard" currencies such as the US Dollar than it's no more useful than the Soviet Ruble. It's not even useful as an actual anonymous currency, it's not even anonymous without a considerable amount of legwork.

[desumeku]

Nobody has been advertising BTC as "anonymous" currency in over a decade. It was a public ledger since day 1. This is practically a strawman.

[tim333]

The soviet ruble is not widely accepted and did not hold its value well. Bitcoin functions more like gold reserves.