Governments at all levels are harassing them for sales tax money. Of course, that money goes to buy votes for politicians. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/amazon-conn-ark/
Today it was reported someone stole a half million dollars in bitcoins residing on a user's machine. Amazon, or some other big player, needs to come in and make real the beautiful idea of a safe, anonymous, internet currency. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...-raises-questions.ars?comments=1#comments-bar
An internet currency is gonna happen. It's just a matter of who will be involved and who will be left behind.
State and local governments keep harassing Amazon. "AmazonCoins" would make these abusers take a step back. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/30/amazon_tax_hissy_fit/