Wouldn't we expect the value people see in Bitcoin shift as it gains adoption? It may have started with a band of freedom-seeking visionaries, but if it is to one day become a global money, it can't remain limited to that, and surely it would have to have volatility, speculation, booms and busts along the way? How else would such a transition from its free-market origins to global acceptance as currency be possible? Not saying it will get there, it just seems to me some of these things are in fact inevitable features of such a pathway.