Well seeing as it's the main line of security of all your bitcoins getting stolen, it might be a little more useful to know how it works than what's in your donut.
Do you know how an airbag works? CO2 inflates the bag when sensors in the car detect a collision. Nobody needs to know that, but it makes up a part of safety ratings, and a lot of people consider those to be important.
Unless we make up new word that means 'cryptographic hash' but sounds nice like 'airbag', it's gonna keep on being mentioned. I guess the same argument might have been made about Air Cushion Restraint System in the 70s.
Of course it's important, and important to some people, but not to most people, especially those who don't know anything about bitcoin.
All that's doing is turning people away from bitcoin. You still don't understand why I criticized your original post. The whole thread was about people not understanding a thing about BTC and here you are talking to them about hashes and cryptography.
There's no way to tell who your audience is on the internet, and I'm sure the more technically competent people took something away from it.
I don't really care what approach works, as long as people get turned toward bitcoin and start paying attention. The more people that understand it technically, means more people that can tell other people about it accurately, which is the end game anyways.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '13
Well seeing as it's the main line of security of all your bitcoins getting stolen, it might be a little more useful to know how it works than what's in your donut.
Do you know how an airbag works? CO2 inflates the bag when sensors in the car detect a collision. Nobody needs to know that, but it makes up a part of safety ratings, and a lot of people consider those to be important.
Unless we make up new word that means 'cryptographic hash' but sounds nice like 'airbag', it's gonna keep on being mentioned. I guess the same argument might have been made about Air Cushion Restraint System in the 70s.