Hasn't the market fluctuated fairly rapidly in the past few months? I'd hate to accept $10,000 worth of conference fees in bitcoins, only to find out that I can only get $5,000 out of them. At a rate of $1,000 a day - or whatever the exchanges are limiting the daily trades to these days.

I'd hate to accept $10,000 via paypal and only get $5,000 out of it. At least with bitcoin there is a chance it will go up in value rather than down.

> I'd hate to accept $10,000 via paypal and only get $5,000 out of it

Me too. Which is why I wouldn't use paypal, either.