I'd never thought I'd read so many comments about people questioning whether using Bitcoins to buy anything is useful or not or even if people would use. Specially in a place like this with so many technology aware people.
Giving more choices for payment is good. Sellers are including more people that can pay for their services/products. If nobody buys anything with bitcoin they lose nothing and business goes as usual. Simple.
Please get out of your bubbles and think a little more if you can't find scenarios where people would use Bitcoins rather than money.
In my case If I start seeing more places accepting Bitcoins it's only more probable that I'll use it and put more money in my wallet for that.
I can remember of two places I could use Bitcoins right now: Humble Bundles and Namecheap. Given the choice and more sellers using it I will use that option more and more.
Some of the credit card scenarios people are talking is again US specific.
If I want to pay for something quick and simple online I have to get really out of my way to do it.
I don't have credit cards and lots and lots of people don't have them and avoid them. I don't want to have one ever.
Currently for me to pay anything online I have to go to MBNet to create a virtual credit card for each purchase I want to do. That card is valid for one purchase only and for a single shop/seller. There's another option where I can create a virtual card valid for one year but I can only use it in the same seller/shop.
Only after that can I use all those payments systems on the internet. If I want to be protected with Paypal I have to add and remove a card each time I need to use it. So lately I just input the virtual credit card info where sellers ask in their forms and don't even care about paypal or amazon or anything else.
Basically I don't really have much of any kind of protection anyway doing all this work above comparing to the simple use case of having bitcoins and just directly giving you the money without caring anymore.
Plus I don't have to keep looking at my credit card looking for any suspicious transaction that the seller could at any time issue to me. I give the money exactly that I want and I can just go with my life without thinking about it anymore.
And this is just my point of view. I can clearly imagine many people with very different reasons simply using Bitcoins if that option is available.
Now the only thing really missing is being able to implement a simple shop using Stripe from this side of the Atlantic :P.
Congratulations Stripe and keep the good work.