[thebean11]

On what part of the stack exactly? Are they crafting RPC requests to a BTC node manually? Using wallet software? Using more advanced wallet software with social recovery features and named addresses?

I think you may be forgetting, earlier users of computers were using punchcards..

[wpietri]

Are you... asking me to explain what the Bitcoin folks were thinking when they claimed they were creating a viable peer-to-peer electronic cash system? Sorry, you'll have to ask them that. About 80% of what cryptocurrency advocates claim to believe seems unrealistic to me. But given that they published that paper in 2008, I suspect punch cards were not what they had in mind.