Originally Posted By: Brangdon
Another part is that it's a trustless system (more or less), in a good way. With dollars, you have to trust the government not to print too many of them.

What about that Mt. Gox disaster? Didn't people trust the owner with their Bitcoins, and then those subsequently went "poof"? And now Flexcoin is reportedly going down the drain. It seems you have to put a LOT of trust into Bitcoins, and apparently there have been some big losses due to this misplaced trust.