Measuring the Success of Cryptos: Price or Principle

This is a very interesting talk by Andreas Antonopoulos. Thanks to @anli for the tip!

Although a couple of years old, it reframes an age-old question: what am I doing here?

The "here" in this case is the cryptosphere, and he has many insights on the metrics used to measure success.

For Andreas, his main motivation is to see crypto "change the architecture of the technology known as money". This has many layers to it but is fundamentally about personal freedoms, compared to obedience (and obeisance) to the bankster system - a system that has developed over some centuries and that is not going to cede any control to you mere pleb.

But the popular notion, often cited, that "mainstream adoption" is the primary aim of cryptocurrencies flies in the face of this liberating philosophy because most people really just don't care about it.

Somehow, freedoms have to also be "convenient". Sell the benefits, not the features - especially if one of them is independence.

Mainstream adoption will be in the hands of the banksters and their media propagandists. This is what we see already. It is obvious and logical.

What we see less often is one of the consequences of this broadening and dilution - read this recent news. This is what happens when banksters control the tech and at the same time criminalise your freedom to use it as you please. It's like erecting traffic-lights at every street corner before cars were mass produced.

To stretch that analogy, perhaps we shouldn't be building cars - we should be building tanks.

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