Quote from: akamit on May 01, 2017, 08:48:06 PM

Quote from: bitcoin_user on May 01, 2017, 09:29:26 AM

It's something which seems crucial to me for reaching mass adoption (in addition to scalabilty of course...).
Already on this forum there is a shitload of people losing their Bitcoins by forgetting passphrases, the private keys, the dat file etc...
So I would like to know what technological solutions could be proposed for this problem.

To make a comparison, a lot of people are forgetting their credit card code (even if it's only 4 digits...) or losing the card and the centralized solution to this is the bank providing new card/code.

Which decentralized solutions to this problems could you think of?

Simple solution for average Joes..
Don't use bitcoin, if you can't remember password, passphrase, private keys or dat file.
Don't use c. card, if you can't remember pin.

Maybe in future we will get finger print, retina scan, face detection etc etc in the bitcoin tech.

I don't know why you'd want to try and use anything along the lines of FP scanner, eye scanners or facial detection features, sure they might be kind of cool and "futuristic" but there are still leaps to get to something like that, and even once we get to that point it's going to be hard for companies and users to convince governments that it's a good thing to let the average person have access to those kinds of technologies (for various reasons I won't detail right now).
I personally prefer just using what we have now. Really keeps the anonymity as opposed to having to tie something in directly with what you have.