To be clear though, I'm trading to obtain more Bitcoins.
Everyone knows the dollars days are numbered. It doesn't take a genius to see that the cracks are opening wider by the day. The more the FED tries to paper over it's abject failures the more people are going to look for an alternative. I really wish it was Gold or Silver. I truly do, but you and I both know that it's a controlled market. They dump it literally minutes before BLS stats are released, they've done it twice in a row these past two releases. You can't profit or trade in a manipulated market. You're not privy to the intel before it gets disseminated to the rest of the trading / speculating public. They take full advantage of it, whether there is a law there or not. And you know what? There isn't shit you or I can do about it.
They can pump or dump the precious metals market at anytime using naked shorts, even getting the comex in on the scam. If they can't deliver they'll settle in cash. What good is that? You have nations literally stealing peoples life savings (Poland, Argentina, Russia), or taking a 50 percent hair cut on current money in the bank (cyprus), what would you have them do? Go to their nearest precious metals dealer and buy up all that they have? What benefit is that to you or humanity as a whole? Even IF they institute a new gold backed system, its still one that leaves them in control of it. Rinse, recycle, repeat, it's a practice they've perfected for 500+ years. Gold and Silver are nice to have, but isn't going to do a god damn bit of good in the long run. It isn't going to remake this world, they control all the physical. If you don't believe that you're deluding yourself. India's populace has took to buying gold, what did the Indian government do? Shut down gold importation or tax it so heavily to make it mostly unobtainable.
That's where crypto currencies come in whether you like it or not. It's just the nature of the world we live in and where the people have been pushed too. The free market will always find a way. It doesn't always mean we have to agree with it.