Jeremy: You’re welcome.
Mom: What should I be thanking you for?
Jeremy: I just repaid the twenty bucks I owed you…in Bitcoin.
Mom: I don’t know anything about Bitcoin!
Jeremy: In that case, it was forty bucks. (ZITS, by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman)
Operating cryptocurrencies in their current form can be a confusing experience, where users have to complete a series of operations to achieve an outcome. They have to buy bitcoins on an exchange, download and set up a wallet, send bitcoins to that wallet, find a marketplace or exchange to trade in, complete a transaction, and track it on the local block explorer.
