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> Most people have still never even heard of Ethereum This statement was true in 2016, 2018 and 2021. The difference being the momentum - a LOT more people hav
by asenna 6y ago
> Most people have still never even heard of Ethereum
This statement was true in 2016, 2018 and 2021. The difference being the momentum - a LOT more people have heard of Ethereum now than back then. I think you might be underestimating the network effect that Ethereum has in the space. All the tooling, beginner-friendly tutorials/books/blogs, institutions and funds flowing into the projects, the sheer number of people working on projects is super impressive.
For anything else to catch up with Ethereum, it's going to take a lot more than "being better technologically". Ethereum currently does have major scaling issues but the community is converging on the "rollups" Layer-2 solutions [1] as a temporary option until it gets added into Eth2. So I suspect the next few months will be a little rough but things like Matic.network or Optimism will start maturing.
[1] https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-rollup-centric-ethereum-roadmap/4698 https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-rollup-centric-ethereum-r...
- sushisource 6y agoBy most people I genuinely mean "most people" I sincerely doubt more than 50% of people in the US have heard of ETH, much less globally. So, yeah, sticking by that statement.
- asenna 6y agoAnd I agree with that statement. I just think it's similar to some of the earlier internet days like shopping online or sending emails - in its early days most people did not know much about these concepts except for the tech community and early adopters.