The Problem With Bitcoin

It's not too big to fail. It's too small to succeed.

A reader asks:

Today I have had a discussion with my brother about Bitcoin, he is for some reason super against it because its "unsafe" for example controllable by controlling the people i.e. china (I don't think that's how it works). Well, I have searched for one point he made that I couldn't answer, if Bitcoin could be boycotted/is in danger when there…