Bitcoin is a new way to to pay for products and services.
It brings many advantages for customers and suppliers but its path to mainstream use is very slow and difficult.
Google is a company who has showed to be ahead in granting to its users astonishing advantages with bleeding hedge open technology. Its support would mean the beginning of the real wide spread adoption of the virtual currency.
Many are the risks and the drawbacks but also the adoption of the Internet had theirs in the early days and even if many of them have remained unchanged we are glad to be on it.