If anyone interested in Bitcoin's aims wants Bitcoin to succed, they're going to have to temper their OCD impulses and understand the true nature and severity of threats. There is a never ending list of potential threats both demonstrated and theoretical that can harm people, but the truth of the matter is non linear and related to scale.
Micro$soft Winblows was known to be insecure out of the box for decades. The NSA had encryption keys delivered with every copy of Winblows, sold or pirated. Winblows 10 is the most popular version of Winblows, with over 1 billion active users. That means there are a billion people on an insecure operating system that violates their privacy and their rights.
And yet...
The world keeps spinning. People make use of the Internets. Passwords get stolen, people lose data, but none of it is enough to stop all the systems that rely on Winblows and the users. Everyone is getting their work done, being paid, managing their money and living normal lives.
And this is the key. You can live a normal life if you use Micro$soft Winblows. It doesn't matter that it is imperfect, or that someone can get your password just by hearing you type Blink182 on your keyboard. Security is a good thing, and it is better to be more secure, but it is not the purpose of computers and using them to get work done.
Bering this in mind, what is the utility of spreading fear to ordinary people who are easily frightened and who take the word of experts as gospel? Who does it help to tell people that if they type in their own homes, someone can reconstruct their private writing? What's worse is telling people this and then not offering any answer other than, "BE VERY FRIGHTENED".
This relates directly to Bitcoin, in case you didn't know. If these same people are listened to, no one would ever touch Bitcoin, because they see the world only in terms of threats and negative outcomes that are grossly exaggerated. The vast majority of people will never experience any problem with Bitcoin, just as the vast majority of iPhone users never experience any problems.
Since the iPhone 1, 2.4 billion iPhones have been sold world-wide. This is a staggering number of satisfied customers. Bitcoiners (or at least, people claiming to be Bitcoiners) must think before they open their mouths to spread FUD about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is very safe, just like the iPhone is, and if the tools being used on it are well written and designed, Bitcoin can be very safe; certainly safe enough to change the world.
Part of what's coming with "Consumer Bitcoin is"If you're not already mitigating the risk of someone *hearing* you type your passwords, you should probably start... It always seemed like a probable risk, but now it's confirmed:
If anyone interested in Bitcoin's aims wants Bitcoin to succed, they're going to have to temper their OCD impulses and understand the true nature and severity of threats. There is a never ending list of potential threats both demonstrated and theoretical that can harm people, but the truth of the matter is non linear and related to scale.
Micro$soft Winblows was known to be insecure out of the box for decades. The NSA had encryption keys delivered with every copy of Winblows, sold or pirated. Winblows 10 is the most popular version of Winblows, with over 1 billion active users. That means there are a billion people on an insecure operating system that violates their privacy and their rights.
And yet...
The world keeps spinning. People make use of the Internets. Passwords get stolen, people lose data, but none of it is enough to stop all the systems that rely on Winblows and the users. Everyone is getting their work done, being paid, managing their money and living normal lives.
And this is the key. You can live a normal life if you use Micro$soft Winblows. It doesn't matter that it is imperfect, or that someone can get your password just by hearing you type Blink182 on your keyboard. Security is a good thing, and it is better to be more secure, but it is not the purpose of computers.
Bering this in mind, what is the utility of spreading fear to ordinary people who are easily frightened and who take the word of experts as gospel? Who does it help to tell people that if they type in their own homes, someone can reconstruct their private writing? What's worse is telling people this and then not offering any answer other than, BE VERY FRIGHTENED.
This relates directly to Bitcoin, in case you didn't know. If these same people are listened to, no one would ever touch Bitcoin, because they see the world only in terms of threats and negative outcomes that are grossly exaggerated. The vast majority of people will never experience any problem with Bitcoin, just as the vast majority of iPhone users never experience any problems.
Since the iPhone 1, 2.4 billion iPhones have been sold world-wide. This is a staggering number of satisfied customers. Bitcoiners (or at least, people claiming to be Bitcoiners) must think before they open their mouths to spread FUD about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is very safe, just like the iPhone is, and if the tools being used are well written and designed, Bitcoin can be very safe.
Part of what's coming with Consumer Bitcoin is the diminishing of the hysterical, anti-human, deranged and delusional voices that cast the light of fear on Bitcoin, replacing them with Apple style thinking and attitudes which are pro consumer from the bottom up. This change in culture, or more accurately, the replacement of Bitcoin Culture, is going to form an essential part of the mass onboarding. the diminishing of the hysterical, anti-human, deranged and delusional voices that cast the light of fear on Bitcoin, replacing them with Apple style thinking and attitudes which are pro consumer from the bottom up. This change in culture, or more accurately, the replacement of Bitcoin Culture, is going to form an essential part of the mass onboarding.
