What are the actual risks of this cognitive dissonance thing?
I'm curious to know because it seems to me that we are simply overthinking here. After all, you can always use your own metaphor if you don't want to use the conventional one or are significantly uncomfortable using it.
Anyway, I guess this is far from a better metaphor. It seems it is actually worse.
A better metaphor is to imagine the blockchain is a bank full of lock boxes that contain our coins and what we keep are the key's to our lock boxes.
I guess we should quit imagining a certain physical place where our funds are kept. I think it is still basically a by-product of a consciousness largely molded by banks, central bodies, main servers which are located at main offices, and so forth. I guess it's better to think of mere numbers. Bitcoin is numbers basically. Numbers are abstractions. They're floating in the air like nothing and yet they're something. You cannot point at anything in the real world which is number 1 or 2 and so on but they're there in all objects.
