Quote from: aigeezer on January 29, 2016, 03:25:43 PM

Quote from: ddink7 on January 29, 2016, 02:55:58 PM

if we show ordinary people a really complex technology and tell them "take it or leave it; we're not going to make it easy for you to adjust" that they will just leave it.

I agree. Presumably the goal is to hide the complexity from the end-users, as done with cars, TVs, cell-phones and so forth. Computers make an interesting middle-of-the-road example. They are far too complex for some potential end-users, but "just right" for others. If we all had to think about transistor logic when we made forum posts we wouldn't get far, but the industry has "made it simple" with Windows and such. Wink

Eye of the beholder stuff, but I'm very happy if crypto wallets get easier and easier to use as long as third parties don't insert themselves into the process. Hmmn. I like Trezor, although I don't have one yet, and I like Slush. Is Trezor itself a third party of the kiind I'm fussing about? Aieee - my head hurts.

Again, I would never have started thinking along these lines without the sudden realization that I would have to deal with a third party - not a party of my choosing - in order to resolve a disputed transaction with a privacy provider. I abandoned the payment and switched VPN providers, rather than do that, fwiw - a little windfall for Bitpay, but peace of mind for me.

A privacy service requiring an intermediary is definitely sub-optimal, to say the least!

I definitely see the crypto world ultimately functioning as an entire ecosystem. I envision numerous businesses, centralized and decentralized, existing around a common decentralized core. But we definitely need to at least partially close the loop. We need people who once receiving Dash will respend that Dash instead of converting to fiat.