Coding Digression: The problems with crypto

I took a moment out while coding to answer a question that comes up a lot: "Why isn't there much commercial adoption of crypto?" I let myself ramble on quite a lot longer than I was anticipating, but covered a lot of useful ground.

Pondering the timezone problem (Time is fake, relative sequence is real)
Easy problems with crypto
Hard problems with crypto
Business models beat windfall profits
Back to work