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I actually agree that what we usually call as wallets in the world of cryptocurrency are not what they really are...all because the coins are not being deposited into those wallets though we can see the figures in there, more so if your wallet has zero balances like mine. However, I am not convinced that this should be called as cognitive dissonance because that term holds deeper meaning. Now, in case we should start calling our wallets to be keychains in my view the more that ordinary people can be confused, so maybe I prefer that we have the status quo.
Never watched this one before (so Thank You :-))it followed one I was familiar with.... it's really good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqONzcNbzh8&ab_channel=TEDxTalks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqONzcNbzh8&ab_channel=TEDxTalks
Ted Gideonse Ted Talk on Cognitive Dissonance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr00TrsG_eo&ab_channel=TEDxTalks
The book: Mistakes were made (But not by me)---funny and informative
One of the shortest and most simple of examples:
Given by George Takei on reciting the pledge of allegiance while in internment
https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/11/19/exp-takei-internment-pledge.cnn
I agree on the 'keychain' concept when I heard it from one of Andreas Antonopoulos' videos. I'm not sure, but I think it might be too late to make a transition though because the masses have been too much accustomed to the 'wallet' term already.
On the other hand, I've always thought(though I'm undecided)— does everyone really need to understand that they aren't really holding coins, but just keys? Wouldn't it be fine as long as they know how to keep their "wallet backup" secure? I know having technical knowledge on things is always better, but how deeply technical should the masses be when it comes to Bitcoin?
On the other hand, I've always thought(though I'm undecided)— does everyone really need to understand that they aren't really holding coins, but just keys? Wouldn't it be fine as long as they know how to keep their "wallet backup" secure? I know having technical knowledge on things is always better, but how deeply technical should the masses be when it comes to Bitcoin?
What are the actual risks of this cognitive dissonance thing?
I'm curious to know because it seems to me that we are simply overthinking here. After all, you can always use your own metaphor if you don't want to use the conventional one or are significantly uncomfortable using it.
Anyway, I guess this is far from a better metaphor. It seems it is actually worse.
I guess we should quit imagining a certain physical place where our funds are kept. I think it is still basically a by-product of a consciousness largely molded by banks, central bodies, main servers which are located at main offices, and so forth. I guess it's better to think of mere numbers. Bitcoin is numbers basically. Numbers are abstractions. They're floating in the air like nothing and yet they're something. You cannot point at anything in the real world which is number 1 or 2 and so on but they're there in all objects.
I'm curious to know because it seems to me that we are simply overthinking here. After all, you can always use your own metaphor if you don't want to use the conventional one or are significantly uncomfortable using it.
Anyway, I guess this is far from a better metaphor. It seems it is actually worse.
A better metaphor is to imagine the blockchain is a bank full of lock boxes that contain our coins and what we keep are the key's to our lock boxes.
I guess we should quit imagining a certain physical place where our funds are kept. I think it is still basically a by-product of a consciousness largely molded by banks, central bodies, main servers which are located at main offices, and so forth. I guess it's better to think of mere numbers. Bitcoin is numbers basically. Numbers are abstractions. They're floating in the air like nothing and yet they're something. You cannot point at anything in the real world which is number 1 or 2 and so on but they're there in all objects.
nothing to see
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