"Which brings us full-circle back to my original point."
It still doesn't make your claim correct. Your claim that Bitcoin can't achieve widespread adoption because of the complexity of mining doesn't even make sense.
Not every user has to mine and mining is what this article was about, not the parts of Bitcoin that everyone will use, but the parts that only a few will use but everyone seems curious about.
This article was akin to "How the printing presses the Fed uses works" combined with "How the Visa/MasterCard payment system works" - again, something you don't need to know to use the consumer end of that system, but which quite a lot of us are curious about anyway.
It still doesn't make your claim correct. Your claim that Bitcoin can't achieve widespread adoption because of the complexity of mining doesn't even make sense.
Not every user has to mine and mining is what this article was about, not the parts of Bitcoin that everyone will use, but the parts that only a few will use but everyone seems curious about.
This article was akin to "How the printing presses the Fed uses works" combined with "How the Visa/MasterCard payment system works" - again, something you don't need to know to use the consumer end of that system, but which quite a lot of us are curious about anyway.