Alternatives to passwords have "kind of worked" with bitcoin and cryptocurrencies: When they became valuable and exchange breaches became costly, people started

Alternatives to passwords have "kind of worked" with bitcoin and cryptocurrencies: When they became valuable and exchange breaches became costly, people started using 2FA (exchanges made them mandatory) and ledgerwallets en masse. We should be making these kinds of technologies cheaper and dumbproof so that everybody can use them. Some alternatives proposed in the past, like OpenID, were almost comically complicated for Joe User.