Bitcoin, why do I love thee?

I'm still working on a bunch of analysis software to follow coin trails through the bitcoin ecosystem. I have downstream tracking pretty much sorted but upstream tracking (where did these coins come from) is more complex using the understanding I currently have. But a thought occurred to me... Why am I doing this project?
There are two reasons

1) There are people out there who are happy to abuse the bitcoin ecosystem - to steal and to cheat ordinary people of their savings. They think bitcoin offers a smokescreen that will hide their dodgy dealings and antisocial activities. The neat thing is that they are probably very wrong... bitcoin provides data analysts with a complete, unabridged and utterly fascinating history of every single transaction, ever. It's truly Big Data - a vast dataset and a big challenge. But Big Data is cool now. Look at what search engines and social media do with their millions and customers... The tools to unravel the bitcoin block chain are possible and will emerge over the next few years and this kind of fraud will become a thing of the past. The big difference between the virtual world of bitcoin and the world we are used to is that with bitcoin, the evidence is locked forever in the blockchain by a method that is "computationally impractical" to reverse (to use the words of Satoshi Nakamoto). It will never fade or degrade. The tools of the near future will look back at the early history of the blockchain and the truth will emerge - sure as eggs.

2) (but probably should be 1!) Bitcoin is a powerful force for change and potentially that's change for good: Just a few points:

• Bitcoin can connect people with people, anywhere and everywhere and can let them trade, without banks, without currency conversions, without huge fees (just tiny ones) without barriers (without taxes too potentially). It empowers people to do their thing, trade on their own terms and connect person to person. It does what currency should do - it oils the wheels of human commercial endeavour.
• If people connect with people across the world it can unite us - regardless of our governments, politics, religion, whatever. People are just people - we're all the same and the more we connect, the more we realise that.
• Bitcoin its technologically amazing. It is a thing of wonder and beauty. Its peer-to-peer centre-less technical architecture mirrors the peer-to-peer social architecture it promotes. And the way it establishes and records an irrevocable and unchangeable truth is a true innovation. I was reading about Merkle Trees today (every block chain block stores its transactions in one) and apparently they are believed to be resistant to attack even by quantum computers (which themselves are largely a theoretical notion (as I understand it!!)). This is technology of a new kind. 

All in all, I love this bitcoin stuff - I really do... I'm new to the field but its definitely got me. I wish I'd discovered it early and made some money mining a lot of coins - but don't we all I guess.