“I reckon the big online retailers who would save a fortune by stripping seller and buyer fees – eBay and Amazon – will move first. Apparently there is already an entire trendy suburb in Berlin where you can more or less live on them already.  That’s when the real difficulties start. Because for all the benefits, peer-to-peer currencies like this will almost certainly reduce the ability of central banks to manipulate the money supply, have significant implications for the tracking of illegal transactions, and may erode tax-raising powers. For at least some of those involved in the Bitcoin project, including the mysterious founder, that was the whole idea.”

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/jamiebartlett/100011868/one-day-amazon-will-accept-bitcoins-thats-when-central-banks-and-governments-get-nervous/

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