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I've spent the last two days absolutely freaking out over this stuff.
I didn't understand the vulnerabilities of smart phones until now.

Well, I and many others are glad you've shared what you learned. It is scary when you realize how vulnerable Internet-connected devices can be. I would have been a bitcoiner in 2011 has I not gone into "nerd fright" when I learned about keylogger malware.

the identity issue really needs to be resolved.

Eventually, it will. The sad part about life on the frontier is that a lot of learnings are learned the hard way.

(Image from here.)

By the way, that's why frontiersy societies are full of "dogma": i.e., "Don't do that!" followed by "And don't ask stupid questions!"

what a "frontiersy" society? A new, cutting-edge one?

To answer your latest question, in a way that gets around the too-much-nesting block:

what a "frontiersy" society? A new, cutting-edge one?

In a sense, yes. In a nation of settlers, frontiers were cutting-edge in that they were the forerunners of new cutting-edge geographical developments.

I use "frontier" as an analogy because the cryptocurrency world ain't kind to the sheltered.

Correct, well said.