[mikegreenberg]

FWIW, I was speaking about the "collective" you. And of course one does not automatically get the value out of anything without using it properly. If you use something other than how it was intended, you will get something other than advertised.

And I also agree that cryptocurrency is still not easy to use, but I'm not sure why it needs to "inherently" solve something (even though it has intrinsic value in certain dimensions). HTTP was inherently made to transfer structured text. No one was hoping it was going to replace the postal service, and yet the majority of the worlds information is transmitted using the protocol.

And just because you couldn't use "HTTP" when it was being first developed by researchers, it still served a purpose for them at the time and gradually became the invisible technology that it is today. Now replace "HTTP" with "cryptocurrency" and "at the time" with "now".

This is exactly what I meant when I said that maybe cryptocurrency wasn't ready for (collective) you.

[dotnet00]

I just interpreted the original comment as suggesting that these were inherent features of cryptocurrency. I do entirely agree with your premise about the possibilities enabled by cryptocurrencies when implemented/used properly.