The comparaison is valid on the surface of it, but I would argue that:

1. The problems with fiat payment systems as they exist are pretty serious, not just the kinds of problems idealists want to solve. There are billions of dollars spent each year on dealing with/mitigating these problems.
2. As hard as transitioning to bitcoins can be for the non tech-savvy (I suspect it'll get easier, btw), that pales in comparaison to learning a new language.
3. The main practical benefit of esperanto (a language everyone can understand), is already being achieved by everyone learning english as their second language. English may be inelegant, but it works.

How is email not like Esperanto (compared to the old postal system).

Yeah, that's Bitcoin. 

English is inelegant? That depends, as with any language, on how it's used.

1. No doubt, but not to most 'retail' users. People are happy to use cash for anonymity (the >10k KYC problems don't affect them) and indeed don't seem too bothered by the credit card 3%. The biggest retailers pay less than that and consumers can get 1% cashback without too much effort, so they're paying 1% for convenience and guarantees (and insurance sometimes) - a deal many take.

2. It's effort vs reward. That's the point: Esperanto isn't worth the effort and I'm wondering if Bitcoin is for a critical mass.

3. The world has the USD  for an "inelegant" lingua franca

Espiratasu itar olipartini.

 

Can't argue with that, Esperanto is really mainly idealistic (but I find it interesting anyway for its simple and conclusive grammar; I'm not fluent, though).


It is not neutral of course, but its creator at least tried to bring more than just western Europe into it - at least some words are apparently based on Japanese.  Of course, it misses a lot of cultures like Africans, South Americans, Indian and I guess a lot more.  However, I don't think English is more neutral - it is true that it is based both on Roman languages (to 20%) and Germanic languages (to 80%), but so is Esperanto being based on all of those languages, too, even including Slavik ones and Japanese as mentioned already.


I'm not sure whether to agree here or not.  Of course I'm used to writing technical stuff (be it related to computer science of my research in mathematics physics) in English and don't even know German words for some of the concepts involved, but what exactly makes you think English is naturally the "perfect language" for technical concepts?  In terms of simplicity, English lies between Esperanto and German - so depending on whether you think it is good to describe things in simple or complex sentences, you should prefer one of those over English.

Before WW II, also a lot of science was published in German (for instance with the "fathers" of quantum mechanics being mostly from German speaking regions as far as I know) - I believe the main reason we use English today is simply because a) Germany lost the war and English-speaking countries were the winners (which is arguably true also for French and Russian, though), and b) the English commonwealth empire was were large and influenced large parts of the world (former collonies like India).  I'm not a historian though, so that are just my "uninformed" impressions.

If those are the two skanks we've woken up next to, we'd better have a good scrub in the shower before we let the door slam behind us...

We thrive on diversity. The world doesn't need an Esperanto currency. We need smarter money systems.
Bitcoin is a giant leap forward in this regard. It's like software language vs. regular written language. It facilitates so much more cool stuff.

Monero is Esperanto and  is the future https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/1595182.0

The difference is that a lot of people are dissatisfied  by the existing financial system