Well now, maybe you are being to understand! It's private enterprise verses central control - is there any doubt who the final winner will be? :-)
For additional edification: Overstock CEO Slams "Unethical" Krugman; Hopes "Bitcoin Destroys Central Banking"
Perhaps I should have used the /sarc tag. I absolutely do not understand (read that, "see any point to") the interest in bitcoin. Even our IT guys said today that it is a total gimmick that they would never entertain. We simply have yet another "currency" system operating by barter to establish tradable value still benchmarked by the US$. Enjoy, my FRiend, but count me out.