A mention to @charlieshrem and a deep look at the conflicts that innovative ideas suffer.
It is very curious and fascinating how the technology allows us to make communication between human beings on a global scale. When I started getting interested in bitcoin I always seeking material for study, both technical terms as the history of currency and the way people are shaping this story.
For me the most interesting part is the bitcoin as an investment, as well as crypto currencies. My passion is economy, although I have tried to made faculty of computer sciences. And in both the bitcoin fits well.
A documentary that helped me start my understanding of bitcoin was The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin, I was very impressed with the contribution of @charlieshrem in building structures for the bitcoin could grow and develop. Also I was very sad about what happened a while later.
The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin
is a documentary about the Bitcoin universe. The documentary introduces what is Bitcoin and its sub-concepts related to cryptocurrency and mining and shows the history / the evolution of the bitcoin over time.
"What we do in life echoes in eternity". This is a phrase that I believe to be true and valid for both large forces and small forces that cause changes in all types of environment.
For me as an enthusiastic and advertiser both bitcoin and steemit and other crypto currencies is a very interesting experience when we can relate in some way to others who are doing the same thing.
The problem that innovative ideas always face.
I think there are two forces that always collide with innovative ideas at the beginning and can last for long.
- Pre-set forces will always try to keep their place trying to destroy innovative ideas.
- Human behavior in trying to take "advantage of something" to satisfy their own desires.
The second point is a burden in the history of blockchain technology in my view. Especially with bitcoin. One reason that leads many people disbelieved in the potential of innovation is the fact that in the past some individuals have tarnished the history of currency in an attempt to use it to fraud something.
The idea that the bitcoin can be used to defraud the income tax in Brazil is something that is still shared by many. The idea of anonymity can mess with the brain of people, making them believe they can do justice, just because they disagree with a system. Even if some laws are not necessarily correct does not mean that we should spot something innovative using the same to break laws. This only slows down the development of the currency.
Human behavior
Basically we are all aware that life is a competition. Whether or not, the moment we open our eyes to the moment we close we live in constant competition with each other, even if unconsciously. Try to take advantage of something is a tool to shorten the way in the race for victory.
What worries me is not that these things exist. My main concern is that people do not seem to care to the trail that they leave behind. You remember the phrase I used? "What we do in life echoes in eternity" We may think that our actions do not impact much. But we must be aware that all individual actions are part of a collective sense, and this collective sense is behind of the major changes in lives of everyone.
The behavior of measuring and classifying things will always exist. It is not the first nor the last time that innovative ideas find themselves in great difficulty facing growing problems in human behavior in terms of delaying. Of course there are behaviors that increase the development of innovative ideas.
But the conflict is what brings me great head pain when I think of how far something could have come if he had not to face the stupidity of humans, always trying to do something to lean through the egoistic desires.
What does all this have to do with the development of bitcoin?.
Only to clarify. You can think of all progress and innovation that bitcoin and blockchain technology already caused in the world and be amazed to be able to be part of it in one way or another.
But, try to expand your imagination. It is a fact that the development of structures behind this community is still very slow, and constantly suffering problems, precisely because of such human behavior that I mentioned in this post.
Not that we have to fix people, but we really need to work in order to minimize obstacles which future innovative ideas can face.
How this does not have more upvotes is beyond me! <3