“ATMs have popped up in Canada and the specialized ATMs are expected in the U.S. by the end of the year. Bitcoin is not a currency used exclusively for anonymous drug purchases. Nor is it simply a hard to use currency, that conspiracy theorists grudgingly use to ‘stick it to the man.’ It has settled in Iran, amidst U.S. sanctions, Argentina, amidst high inflation and an unstable currency and Cyprus, amidst the highly publicized financial crisis. It has demonstrated its usefulness as an alternative currency by saturating the globe. Perhaps digital currency is a budding, subversive apparatus that will transform the world’s economic landscape right under our noses. You never know.”
http://www.policymic.com/articles/66755/after-the-silk-road-shut-down-bitcoin-will-only-get-stronger