I dont think anything stoping people for using bitcoins.
Those who know about bitcoins trust it and always want to use it.
Trust is a very important think. But this is caused by a lot of misinformation. A lot of people are not well informed about bitcoin.
They think it's dangerous or being used by dangerous people. Which essentially is false.
Negative publicity of bitcoin is creating an havoc here, as the majority of people have heard only bad news related to bitcoins and that is the reason they have fear and hesitation in using bitcoins.
I'm thinking the same thing, the point that the bitcoins is bad named because of the media that is giving the bitcoin a bad name.
The people are scared to invest in the bitcoin because they think its bad an used by criminals.
Yeah, but the fact is that criminals are not only using bitcoins, they are using fiat too, and I think they are using fiat more in compare to bitcoins, but people have more issues with bitcoins and not with fiat.
And here is me thinking the banks are the criminals. In Iceland they put the people that crashed the economy in prison, in UK they gave them a golden handshake. There are many criminals in the western establishment and governments and financial sectors just like there are some very honest people running underground gangs. The intelligence services do not trust the police, the military don't trust politicians. Money is power and the only law is you conscience. So if they use bitcion it is good to me.
Anyway, what kind of media do you guys consume?? I hear only good things of Bitcoin. Although I never hear it mentioned on mainstream media (Not that i consume much of that).
I do hear the bitcoin users i know complain about how long conformations take. Although people are usually happy to pay a larger (up to 3/4 mBTC) transaction fee than the wallet default of about 1/10th mBTC. Bitcoin looses out to Western Union and paypal in my opinion because it can take so long.
Also i have had ebay listings taken down for stating that i accept bitcoin.
For me, mining is getting expensive for the small miner and pools want to keep the transaction fees. The mining is becoming centralised in China. Pools are often under DDos or block withhold attacks. No one can trust anyone anymore. Who knows what will happen when the block payment halves.