Like the Internet, Bitcoin will change the way people interact and do business around the world.

Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it's my form of political activism, but it's also a huge business opportunity.

The Dwolla incident was to be expected. The government will go after sites that it thinks are supposed to register as money transmitters. Some Bitcoin companies will register as such, and some won't, but business will carry on regardless.

Bitcoin will hit thousands of dollars per coin, because it's worth at least that much, or it's worth zero.

ShapeShift, like SatoshiDICE before it, demonstrated how an old business could operate in a brand new way because of the properties of cryptocurrencies.

Mt. Gox was a teachable moment for everyone in the Bitcoin community, and ShapeShift has innovated these problems out of the picture.