No one talks about the fact that they were up til 2am trying to fix a simple bug, or the fact that in their day job they’re stuck working on legacy code. They talk about their side projects, and the latest shiny thing they tried. Social media makes it seem like everyone’s working their dream job, but actually a lot of people are working long hours to tight deadlines, and leaving the office well into the evening.
It’s scary the amount of time we spend on our addiction to social media. Let me explain what addiction is in simple terms; it is a dependency on something that does not add value to you. However, what if we could create value using our addiction. Can it still be called an addiction?
So long as cryptocurrencies require their users to have impeccable key management, blockchains can’t solve the peer-to-peer payments problem. Dark web regulars might be able to take the time and risk to navigate all the technical complexity. But for blockchains to work in the above-ground economy, you need more than theoretical security — you need actual, in-the-wild security. Money needs to be so easy to use that the average person on the street won’t fuck it up and expose themselves to danger.