I’ve read Bruce Wagner’s post about bitcoin.
Post 33.
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=25252.20I think 3 of the points are still not true yet for bitcoin.
• easy to use
- o no, it’s not easy. Before you can actually use bitcoin safely, you have to learn about how to use True Encrypt and how to find the damn %APPDATA%/Bitcoin folder on your computer.
o You will have to be patient and nervously cautious to make sure the safety of your money all the time. You’re backing up wallet, deleting wallet and restoring wallet and then backing up wallet…
o You have to remember a very “SAFE” password for the encrypted backing up, which means some serious trouble and difficulty that the geeky guys are not able and willing to understand. Users either have to remember password longer than 12 characteristics mixed with numbers and capital letters, or have to learn some strange things named LastPass.
How can you say that it’s easy to use bitcoin?
• no transaction fees
- o Yes, there ARE transaction fees now. And after 2140, the miner are mining only for fees. Stop telling people that there is NO fees, please.
• you can start using bitcoin within seconds with no technical skills necessary
- See what I said about “easy to use”.
- You have to wait for hours before the downloading of blocks completed, if you’re a first time user.
Maybe they will turned to be true, but not now. They are challenging opportunities for bitcoin developers.
P.S.
I think these are true for bitcoin.
transactions that can't bounce or incur chargebacks
no need for bank approval
the world's first decentralized currency
the world's first currency with a limited supply, yet extremely divisible