I'm open to suggestions on how to get Microsoft to design a reasonably secure operating system. Better people than I have been trying for years without success.
I guess what I am trying to get at and trying not to be argumentative about is that the Bitcoin community can't just say, "ah it's windows fault, tell them to fix their security issues, after all bitcoin has never been hacked" a better question to seek answers to is "What can the bitcoin community do to protect potential consumers against the in-vulnerabilities of windows?" so for the best answer is a hand jammed procedure about taking wallets offline, encrypting them and using live cd's when accessing the wallet... I would venture to say that is impractical for a great majority of the people that are needed to adopt this technology in the long run. Again, I don't know the answer but I suspect there are a lot of smart people out there with ideas that should seriously be considered weighing the technical feasibility and the ease of use for an end user, security should be higher priority up until you get to a point such as "I forgot my password so I just lost my life savings"
Additionally people will need mobile wallets they can use in every day retail as a user can't tell a store clerk "I'll send you the BTC when I get home, Thanks!" lol .... and that is a whole new ballpark relating to security which will be needed as well for general acceptance.
For the time being, we should be hitting up sites like
www.Bitmunchies.com is mass numbers. Security isn't as much of an issue if you want to sell your BTC right away -- then, responsibility to be safe and secure falls largely upon the merchant (which he should be doing anyway if it's a business). Besides...if I can run my errands in a few seconds online without paying for gas and spending the extra time, that's a damn good reason for me to buy some BTC at an exchange and immediately use them to purchase tangible goods. This increases demand, gets the currency circulating, and bounces the value of BTC upward. I think if people saw this happening and thought, "Hey, these guys are paying the same they would if they went to a store, but pay for no gas, spend less time, are not required to input sensitive credit card information, and have their order shipped right to their door!" then that will spark interest. And, you don't really have to worry about losing you BTCs....they'll be spent soon anyway.
