Bitcoins ARE and alternative, and DO work for the millions using it. It is the same thing that paypal was, but without the litigation and user-rape.

It doesn’t matter if someone thinks it is worthless, it only matters that someone thinks it has value. Just like any other thing used for exchanges. However, government money, you are TOLD what it is worth, and you are constantly TOLD it is worth more than others actually believe it is worth… Thus, the constant decay in value, along with overprinting for themselves, to reduce their losses and increase their gains, at our expense.

–Also by “elite” I think this article means the western elite. And by “governments” this article should say “some governments”. What if some countries want bitcoin to get out from under the dollar system? What if countless tiny rogue countries want to host bitcoin exchanges? What of that new pro-bitcoin Chinese propaganda documentary that they just aired? What of the fact that countries are eye-balling bitcoin and realizing the first one to panic into bitcoin will ride the wave higher as other countries may jump in?