In both cases I have failed to connect to: {"path": "./data/geth.ipc"} Any ideas?

Paying a small fee is nothing to losing all your coins. Let's say you store 10k coins and got a 0.00001000 transfer fee, that's nothing comparing to losing those 10k coins right? :)

You can argue that it did so already for people who use it. If you mean the mainstream that potentially might never happen. It might take a few generations - if not more - to push people more into

Unfortunately adding more servers won't help if they have a bottleneck in their architecture design. I think it will take some time for them to solve this problem. Until then be cautions fellow Cryptonians

Why it's hard to wrap your head around it? Do you have a bank account? Do you use a card to pay online or in shop? That's your currency stored as a set of code on a machine just in a manner we humans can