There is no shortage of offers to convert real money into something else; primarily it's because that "something else" is worthless.
As I don't buy drugs (and don't even use them, imagine that!) I have no convincing reason to need Bitcoins.
Bitcoin has become the world's best performing currency, with its value spiking 130% just this year.
OK, I see that the author of this article is already on some heavy drugs. Currencies are not supposed to "perform" - they exist for the sole purpose of maintaining their value compared to, say, commodities. If a currency inflates or deflates so fast, it makes it useless for trade.
But if he wants to speculate with Bitcoins, he should be aware that Bitcoin just suffered a major bust after a major boom - just as expected. That's how money of greedy fools is harvested. This will happen again and again because people rarely learn their lessons.
“Currencies are not supposed to “perform” - they exist for the sole purpose of maintaining their value compared to, say, commodities.”
Really? In case you didn’t hear speculating on the foreign currency market is kind of a big deal . . .