The Bitcoin catch-22 : programmable money that can't be entrusted to programmers, cuz they can't learn that Bitcoin is more important than whatever their brilliant idea is. Or tragedy of the commons : a whole community thinks someone will for something, so no one does. Or just plain retardation : Chinese chick gets to be lead maintainer by being a dude's girlfriend. Its like no one in Bitcoin has spent 5 minutes studying China, cuz if they had, they'd know that's exactly how China gets access to stuff. Gold is looking better and better to me.