The best way to find out if bitcoin is a viable platform is for someone to forge ahead with mainstream oriented services like this. We'll all learn a ton from what happens.
Payments is a great starting point for a mainstream bitcoin serice. The user isn't going out too far on a limb to use the service because it's just a payment. This could increase the chance of adoption, and lessen the impact of something going wrong in the early days.
I'm really impressed with folks trying to make a service like this work. I find any opinionated naysaying to be really boring. Can't wait to see how it turns out. Hope there is enough traction to put it all to a real test.
Payments is a great starting point for a mainstream bitcoin serice. The user isn't going out too far on a limb to use the service because it's just a payment. This could increase the chance of adoption, and lessen the impact of something going wrong in the early days.
I'm really impressed with folks trying to make a service like this work. I find any opinionated naysaying to be really boring. Can't wait to see how it turns out. Hope there is enough traction to put it all to a real test.