>If every merchant you patronize today accepted Bitcoin, would you rather have Bitcoin in your bank account or dollars?

At this point, and in the foreseeable future? Dollars. I'm not sure where people find all this friction relating to using dollars in the real world. I have no problems whatsoever. Besides, it's all virtual currency.

As far as your theory of widespread adoption of bitcoin leading to hyperinflation of the dollar, I'm don't even begin to understand how you see that working.