[Cryptography] Standards Trolls: Re: Bitcoin is a disaster.

[Bertrand Mollinier Toublet]

> On Jan 12, 2021, at 1:54 PM, John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
> 
> Bloomberg's Matt Levine (not a relative) writes about bitcoins in
> today's column, riffing on news reports about people who would be
> gazillionaires if only they could remember their passwords.
> 
> The gist of it is that as more people who are less technical become
> interested in bitcoin, it is becoming ever more like other financial
> assets, with third party custodians and so forth. The commmunity where
> people consider it a feature that a lost password means your bitcoins
> are lost forever is not large:
> 
> https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-12/don-t-forget-your-bitcoins
> 
I will admit, sheepishly, that I am a member of that community, however. No gazillions stuck behind the forgotten password, but still, a sizable enough chunk of cash given the current BTC rates… 

Thankfully, I had invested early, so it’s not so many USD sunk into this.
-— 
Bertrand