http://www.quora.com/Bitcoin/Is-the-cryptocurrency-Bitcoin-a-good-idea Hi Sepp, this is a very good summary by Adam Cohen of main critiques, well argued, I didn't succeed in copy-pasting this, can you give it a go, from "No matter what your reasoning, Bitcoin is a ridiculous idea that will not accomplish what you want." onwards to the end, and add it to our wiki page on bitcoin? see http://p2pfoundation.net/Bitcoin I will then also copy it as a blog article, Michel -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens