Whenever I engage with BTC, "easy" is the last thing that I experience. Let's say that someone wants to start using bitcoin: it's as simple as downloading the software, double clicking on the icon, and... waiting 24hours or
more for the block chain to sync, while the i/o volume on their disk goes through the roof.
Once you finally accomplish that, you can purchase some bitcoins, which involves... this: https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20490576-Withdrawals-and-D...
A few days later, you finally have BTC in your wallet, so it's time to start your bitcoin client again and use them. You double click on the icon and... wait 30min to 1hr for the block chain to sync.
Finally, you're ready to send them. Let's say you want to buy some music online, so you send BTC to an address that was generated by the site you're purchasing from and... wait 50 minutes to get enough verified transactions before they finally send you the music.
All of this would be completely impossible on a mobile device.
There are plenty of ideas for making bitcoin more usable, but they all unfortunately involve mitigating the strengths of the bitcoin as a concept.
Once you finally accomplish that, you can purchase some bitcoins, which involves... this: https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20490576-Withdrawals-and-D...
A few days later, you finally have BTC in your wallet, so it's time to start your bitcoin client again and use them. You double click on the icon and... wait 30min to 1hr for the block chain to sync.
Finally, you're ready to send them. Let's say you want to buy some music online, so you send BTC to an address that was generated by the site you're purchasing from and... wait 50 minutes to get enough verified transactions before they finally send you the music.
All of this would be completely impossible on a mobile device.
There are plenty of ideas for making bitcoin more usable, but they all unfortunately involve mitigating the strengths of the bitcoin as a concept.