It is not ego in most people. It is fear. They start with fearing death, and then they fear everything. Try asking them "if you did not do that what you are doing, so what?" to whatever belief they have, and go deeper with the same question to whatever they answer. They will end up saying "well then I might die, and I don't want to die, so I take all those preventive actions that I listed from the start of the discussion". Even those with ego, also have ego because of fear of death under several other layers.
They lost capability of living in the present moment. When they watch soccer game, it is not because they like it. They might have genuinely enjoyed playing it as children, but at some point they lose that skill, and start doing whatever they are doing because of something else, not because that is what their natural body wants at the present moment. And under all those reasons always is only fear of death. And if that is not stupid enough, they also have an excuse for fearing death: that is because they have responsibility to take care of someone else who is also afraid of death or is still a child and will grow to fear death, too. 
Sooo...
Buddha essentially taught that there is no escape from them on this Earth, and best is to stay away as much as possible independent from them while helping those that want to understand it. But he did not have bitcoin. Maybe with bitcoin we can in a way prove him wrong, by taking the power away from them, and basically switching sides.
Maybe.