Interesting...
If really you want to be the careful type, shouldn't you wait on the sideline with your fiat ready, as price has a tendency to fall faster than going up?
not at this stage. we're still in the investment phase. bitcoins value is being bootstrapped, you want to hold on to what you got. Missing the train is just too expensive.
next up: while exchanges and other "bitcoin businesses" run into increasingly unbearable regulatory issues, the global shadow economy discovers bitcoin (international tade, illicit trade).
I'm feeling you. Bitcoin may not solve all the problems of the people, but it solves a few very real and very important problems the people has.
It's taking the power off the hands of those who control monetary supply and hence rule the world de facto.
It has such a huge potential tu subvert the status quo. And it's neutral.
Math is the language of nature, and one of its purest expressions is this piece of revolutionary Genius we call Bitcoin.