I'd love to see Bitcoin be in the position of not having to do much but still somehow have tremendous value. While I don't see all the pieces to that puzzle, the easy money notion seems to violate my poorly developed sense of how money and society interact.
bitcoin (the protocol) doesnt do much, which is perfect. the problem is not bitcoin (the protocol) the problem is the user interaction.
with FIAT parents spend years to teach their kids how to treat money, giving them a small pocket money amount to play with each week and try to teach them how to look after it and how to spend it.
in those years kids have been taught that money is safest wen deposited in third parties (banks) and they earn more by leaving it there.
bitcoin is the opposite
with bitcoin just having funds sitting on an exchange and not touching it (trading/spending) is the worse thing. we need to teach people to do their quick trades and then take their control of their value back from 3rd parties ASAP.
other human lessons need to be learnt. such as peer to peer trading. (due dilgence) if you dont know enough about the other peer to know how to walk up to them and slap them with a wet fish if they wrong you. dont deal with them
then along side this we need to ensure that our individual privacy and control is not taken away from us, but to ensure that businesses and services that seek to profit from our funds do so correctly, honestly and honourably. which means 3rd party services need regulation.
regulation:
if dealing with fiat then AML/KYC regulations. if just a crypto service then signing a contract that binds them to certain ethics needs to be drawn up and used in a court if breached. no 3rd party should hide behind who-is guards, if they want our business they have to be transparent and divulge their real life info that can be used in a court.
for instance.
if MTGOX formed a contract that no more then 10k BTC was in a hotwallet. 750k would not have gone missing by a presumed hacker, only 10k.
if MTGOX formed a contract that 2 factor authentication and database encryption and other stuff were present. then trying to blame a hacker for his greed would come to light even faster.
moving the liability away from myths (lies about hackers and protocol bugs) and put it truly and absolutely all on the third party. then they would atleast make a better attempt to run a better service.
summary
bitcoins dont scam people, people do