I remember trying to teach friends how to use email in combination with their social media account. When myspace came around this task alone resembled rocket science to most. Setting up the account, profile tweaks, notifications, privacy, heck even taking commando-angled pictures for appearing pretty. All these concepts looked new and scary to most people. Internet technologies were not so popular at the time. We were all struggling to have an angle in the game and we were all a bit lost.
A similar process replays once again, when I try to teach about cryptocurrencies. Getting through the basics is rather overwhelming since I still have plenty to learn myself. From my part, it feels like I am trying to teach a 2-year-old how to use the potty while I am still spraying piss all over the toilet seat.
Bored
I believe a big part of the problem in the crypto learning process is laziness. Specifically, laziness that is produced from automation technologies. People are slowly getting used to having things served in their plate — knowing very little about the inner workings of the gadgets that dictate their lives.
I remember growing in an environment where I had to know how everything worked, how it was build and how it should be maintained. Today, due to the nature or economic activities, we use, abuse and throw away almost everything. We are not bothered about how something works or how to fix it. Ironically enough, this is how we end up using people as well.
"Out To Get Me"
I don't fancy conspiracies about people being controlled purposely. I think most of these theories are post-hoc observations that stem from specific human characteristics. For example, we talk about vengeful and loving Gods because we all share those characteristics. We also want to become immortal because we can envision our own death. Put those two together and you get a human being reflecting on his wildest dream — a transhumanist singularity
We create societies that progress on technology and automation because we suck at pretty much surviving in nature without our tools. What we see around us today, is nothing but the outcome of our wildest dreams — a jerk reaction to our physiological shortcomings.
Comparing with what we have today around us, cryptocurrencies seem to have landed from the far future. Trying to teach someone about pass phrases and keys becomes even harder when we consider that all these revolve around security and identity.
Most people already feel vulnerable without even getting their feet wet. They are used to big colorful buttons automating everything for them. Most have no idea about how the software works or what basic hardware it requires. The worst? They don't care about learning.
Enter Government
Most anarchists, libertarians and voluntarists — aka the people who backed up cryptocurrencies since the beginning — are still very wary themselves about the security and privacy factor. Already, most people don't even bother questioning economic practices, politicians or even helping their fellow man. The governments which we have created, do all these effort free even if we whore ourselves to them. They are the historical middle man. The original gadget". The new crowd entering cryptocurrencies would most likely demand the same amount of comfort (if not more).
Humans as they evolved figured out that if they specialize at something they become more efficient. A guy who made only spears and another guy who made only cloth would mathematically produce more and at great economic benefit. In contrast, someone who tried to do both will be less efficient and economically fucked. Economies are scale are based on this very mechanism.
The only difference is that we have specialized so much that we are on the verge of giving out our own self. This is how the big groups like corporations and governments end up "controlling" people. It is rather an after effect of human laziness that stems from efficiency economics.
Nobody knows who the creator of Bitcoin is and I don't think we will ever know. I don't think it matters at this point.Instead, what we all should come to realize is that everybody, eventually, is moving towards blockchain technologies and cryptographic economies. Whether this is for the good or bad is irrelevant. People, and especially younger generations, are even lazier than we are. Most won't bother to get into this spectrum unless some kind of automation takes all the technical stuff away. The point for them is efficiency. The inevitable easy way get the general public into the crypto-sphere seems to be biometric technologies. I believe this will bring cryptocurrency adaptation but it will also turn people into even lazier automatons. Remember, once in the blockchain, always in the blockchain. Humans would sacrifice security for comfort any time of the day and it seems that we would have to ride this wave whether we like it or not.
The Satoshi Irrelevance
