> Neither, strictly speaking, is anything that a normal person would really need to know or care about unless that normal person is the victim of a ransomware scam, or wants to buy drugs on the internet...
Ah right... because normal people never donate to journalists. Never pay for online subscriptions, never buy hardware off newegg. Just because the author has no exerience using cryptocurrency he assumes everyone is like him and repeats the FUD.
Normal people do all that with money and credit cards and debit cards and bank transfers, which works faster and better and are much easier to use and much more convenient. The existing framework is a much better way to do all the things you mentioned. What do you have for which the existing framework isn't better, and how often do "normal" people do that?
Ah right... because normal people never donate to journalists. Never pay for online subscriptions, never buy hardware off newegg. Just because the author has no exerience using cryptocurrency he assumes everyone is like him and repeats the FUD.