I have no problem with the concept of digital currency, but there has to be a better way. The current systems are too dependent on too few big players and on a single point of failure, which is the internet.
Pretty much yes.
I've always held a belief that if you can't physically have it in your hands you don't really own it.
I think a good example of this would be "buying" music or content for a video game. One checkbox and poof, it's gone.
When amazon music first showed up I bought a few albums worth of content. I'm glad I was able to DL those MP3s and burn them to cd because a few years later they changed how their store works & I lost access to them. Had it happen again with apps. It gets removed or dropped from the store and I'm sol. Zero recourse, no refunds. If I can't have it in my hands, I'm pretty reluctant to pay to "keep" things on someone else's computer.
This is far more important than most people realize, i don’t by download books either as they too have been deemed ‘unpopular’ at times and removed from access and i dont buy anything ‘cloud’ or subscription based. If the shit hits the fan i want to be able to keep operating without relying on the internet to make things run.
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