Here's the issue as I see it,
The general public is never going to look at a form of currency "as their dream". If you try and turn this movement into something that only attracts people who don't have much to live for and are consequently looking for answers in fanatically belonging to a culture group then of course it is going to turn off the mainstream.
They simply don't care about any of that, they just want comforts and convenience.
Bitcoin is a social project of sorts, but it has a basis in technical innovation not as a support system for "looking for answers". I realize that sometimes the line separating these two elements is fuzzy but this project will not succeed unless it provide something useful for the society at large, rather than things that are only of interest to a very small and uninfluential, yet very idealistic, segment of the population.
I don't get the feeling the inventor of this implementation did it out of altruism. I think he did it either for a political reason, or if actually working alone, for personal reasons. So I don't think the view that "satoshi is watching over us" is very insightful or much more than an example of a limited perspective.
The kind of mind that can create something like this isn't going to be interested in watching out for the welfare of random individuals and probably doesn't even relate well to people he is very familiar with.
the solution that bit coin provides is hard to underestimate on so may front
[1] Unsiezable wealth, this has never occurred in human history. Prior to this, some one could always take you money/house/gold, shares whatever away from you and use it themselves. Bitcoin no.
[2] Adaptive tech. Being open source makes is easy to adapt to a new environment. Most other tech not like thus alt all.
[3] The only competition for state actors. No company is out there producing competing currency to the state
[4] Unlimited transfer of wealth. You can transfer any amount of wealth to anyone in the world any time
[5] Distributed Autonomous Corporation via the block chain et.al. The first new no state issued form of organisation of capital and labour in 100 years or so, and a seminal one at that.
[6] Possibly the most vibrant community in the world, just look at alts. Say what you may but there is an evolutioar process going on in their that make moores law look passé
[7] The state in its current form will not survive the bit-coin protocol, we have seen a 1 million x devaluation of the USD in the last 5 years alone. Fiat can't survive this again and again.
I am interested in all of these possibilities. That is why I belong to this forum and have a holding of cryptocurrency. It's without a doubt an interesting and potentially valuable technical pursuit, but to progress it is going to take application of intelligence, not emotion, on the part of it's users.
