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I love how the only effective way to market an Ethereum dapp seems to be to create a Facebook group and let people pay with good old cash. Maybe I'm being a bi
by mpeg 10y ago
I love how the only effective way to market an Ethereum dapp seems to be to create a Facebook group and let people pay with good old cash.
Maybe I'm being a bit too harsh, but the decentralised model just presents way too many risks for both riders and drivers, and the lack of fees means AC is not incentivised to protect either.
- zanny 10y agoMuggles don't care about decentralization or freedom or privacy. They want to press a button on their phone and something happens, no matter the consequences. There are risks in everything. The only thing any ridesharing app at the end of the day can truly offer consumers of any meaningfulness in terms of driver / rider security are public ratings on both from all their previous customers and clients. Anything else is some artificial gating metric that tries to break people down into historic footnotes. I hope that AC has such a feature, but even if it does not if its an Ethereum app you can very easily include ratings per contract.
- natrius 10y agoDecentralization does not add risks. It just unbundles consumer protection from the marketplace itself. If you want a customer advocate to mediate your purchases, you can hire anyone to do it. Sellers will increasingly depend on good relationships with consumer advocates for customer acquisition. Advocates will blacklist sellers that don't meet their criteria or have screwed their customers over in some way.