Okay, so I’m neutral on bitcoin and I don’t care who uses them, or what proportion of humanity uses them, or the next version of them, etc. Maybe someday I’ll be one of them. Who knows.
But I had to read this a few times just to make sure it wasn’t 100% pure anti-bitcoin satire. (I’m still not entirely sure!) So on the assumption that it is, here’s my problem with it: I don’t actually want to live in the world they describe. Or anything remotely like it. This sounds awful and if these guys are in fact the experts, then let’s burn blockchain technology to the ground and salt the earth so that nothing can ever grow there again. It’s not that I can’t understand what they’re describing. It’s that I do, and I’d never want to live my life that way, and I don’t think I’m alone.
I mean, if it’s 1975, and you’re describing to me ubiquitous fee-free debit cards, or online banking, or direct deposit, I love all those ideas and I can’t wait for them to happen, which probably explains why they did eventually happen. Reading this makes me want to run screaming back to the barter system. So either I’m a one-in-a-million outlier, or these guys are full of it, or bitcoin is doooooooooooomed. Probably the middle one, but we’ll see.
