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I suspect that you are being overly optimistic about Bitcoin's likelihood to change the face of the planet. There are so many economic and technical problems with Bitcoin that it is nothing short of a miracle that it became as popular as it is now -- and that popularity is not even a blip on the radar of global finance.

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%s/{Bitcoin,finance}/{Internet,communication}/g . Not to say you're wrong, but the same rhetoric is used for every "game" changing technology.

And this reply is used a lot too, despite being just as shaky.

As a wise man once said, they laughed at Galileo, they laughed at Einstein... and they laughed at Bozo the Clown.

> As a wise man once said, they laughed at Galileo, they laughed at Einstein... and they laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Exactly, "they" can't tell the difference between Bozo the Clown and Einstein. It's very hard to predict what ideas or technologies will be adopted in the future. I don't think it's wise to quickly dismiss one that's already progressed this far (the DHS isn't laughing).

Most self-proclaimed "game changing" technologies don't end up changing anything.

If a technology could self-proclaim anything then that would be pretty game changing :). Your point is well taken though (most technologies don't change anything). However I think Bitcoin _has_ already changed more than most.

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