I have just gone through the terrible experience to have my Bank Cards stolen from my vehicle, which was parked inside my property.. I now have to cancel all my cards, including multiple Credit and Debit Cards, my driver's license, all my store cards etc.
I am sure everybody has their own agendas to survive in the world. Some thinks that taking each others property is the way to survive. Maybe the person who stole my property needs it more than me, but I will never take somebody's property as it is not mine. A thief came onto my property, broke into my car on my property, and stole various things, including my Wallet, a Garmin GPS, my prescription glasses and to top it all my golf shoes.
Why on earth will someone take my golf shoes and leave two sets of Golf Clubs, in the vehicle.
I am lucky to be able to afford insurance, all though the insurance company will probably not pay out the full amount of the items stolen, as everything is not specified on the insurance. The bad thing is that I have to go through the schlep, of cancelling all my cards, and go through the insurance claim, just because somebody decided to take something that does not belong to them. To show you what we have to put up with in South Africa ... listen to this. I arrived at the police station, to report the crime, the police officer on duty had the audacity to ask me:
Why do you leave important items, like your Garmin GPS and your wallet, in the vehicle.
I was flabbergasted with his statement, as I am still of the believe that my property should not be accessed by anybody that I do not invite onto the property. I should not even have to lock my own vehicle, when it is inside the fences on my property. It should be my safe haven.
Let's move a few years into the future.
The great thing about the Blockchain technology and Crypto Currencies is that we will soon be in control of our own destinies, and when your cards are stolen, they are useless to the thief, as each and every one of us will literally be in control of our own banks.
In my opinion we are not far from having digital identities, built on the blockchain technology, and if implemented correctly we should have one login to our online life's. We should have insurance issued by a blockchain, which will hopefully put us in the position, to have smaller excess when we claim.
We should all have Digital Wallets, and we can issue ourselves bank cards, to spend our own crypto money, earned by doing which we enjoy doing, like blogging on Steemit. I believe there will be many more sites like Steemit, where you can earn an income, just like we do on Steemit. It will not only be blogging sites, there will be many different types of sites, like the VIVAconomy where we will generate income.
You will not need to phone a bank to issue your cards. Our Driver's license should be issued by a Government owned Private Blockchain, and when it is stolen like mine is now, I will not have to go stand in a queue, for a full fay, to get a new card issued. The driver license database, should be a global decentralised ledger, which will make it easier, to manage on a global scale, as why do I need to get International driver's license issued, when I travel abroad if we can just all use the same database.
The technology which I described above, are already working and tested, but yet again, the human race are very complex, so even if the technology exists, the difficulty is to implement global standards which are acceptable by everybody.
Sure, everything takes time to implement and I truly hope that I still see the above in my lifetime.