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Metamask is an app and browser extension. It's basically a crypto browser. The same way the internet needs a browser. Your argument can easily be used to dismi

by dannyw 6y ago

Metamask is an app and browser extension. It's basically a crypto browser. The same way the internet needs a browser. Your argument can easily be used to dismiss the early internet.

agumonkey 6y ago
Metamask is the only name I could remember, when you listen to people discuss how to use uniswap, the amount of step to do is quite random and it's full of lingo and basically, it feels like setting up the latest js toolchain, a big shiney blur. Then they'll go on and talk about other systems, like polka dot and its parachains and its another universe, then you have multichains, and oracles and whatever. It's more like early TCP where you have to install and set up the whole network stack of the month than early WWW to me.
- smeej 6y ago
  So is your critique that the tech is just in its early stages of development and hard to use for non-techies right now? Or are you seeing some reason it can't eventually become as easy to use as the internet, even though that was also really complex and hard to use in its first decades?
  - agumonkey 6y ago
    No it's randomly chaotic and disguised as cute systems and their little world to play with finances.. there's a dissonance to me here. Also I don't think even the earliest of networking was as weird (but I could be wrong).
    - smeej 6y ago
      Different types of networking still appear "randomly chaotic" to lay people. To people who know how they work, they're no more complex than cryptocurrencies are to people who know how they work. The fact that something requires specialist understanding at its most basic levels does not in any way prevent building upon it and simplifying it until it reaches such a level of abstraction that any layperson can use it even though they don't understand it.
      - agumonkey 6y ago
        but uniswap is already presented as something for the people, it's not experts talking to experts or infrastructure
        dannyw 6y ago
        I don't know what exactly you were trying to do, but the steps are pretty simple 1. Download Metamask. 2. Deposit your tokens, or purchase them from metamask. 3. Go to Uniswap. 4. Swap.

by dannyw 6y ago

Metamask is an app and browser extension. It's basically a crypto browser. The same way the internet needs a browser. Your argument can easily be used to dismiss the early internet.

agumonkey 6y ago

Metamask is the only name I could remember, when you listen to people discuss how to use uniswap, the amount of step to do is quite random and it's full of lingo and basically, it feels like setting up the latest js toolchain, a big shiney blur. Then they'll go on and talk about other systems, like polka dot and its parachains and its another universe, then you have multichains, and oracles and whatever. It's more like early TCP where you have to install and set up the whole network stack of the month than early WWW to me.

smeej 6y ago
So is your critique that the tech is just in its early stages of development and hard to use for non-techies right now? Or are you seeing some reason it can't eventually become as easy to use as the internet, even though that was also really complex and hard to use in its first decades?
- agumonkey 6y ago
  No it's randomly chaotic and disguised as cute systems and their little world to play with finances.. there's a dissonance to me here. Also I don't think even the earliest of networking was as weird (but I could be wrong).
  - smeej 6y ago
    Different types of networking still appear "randomly chaotic" to lay people. To people who know how they work, they're no more complex than cryptocurrencies are to people who know how they work. The fact that something requires specialist understanding at its most basic levels does not in any way prevent building upon it and simplifying it until it reaches such a level of abstraction that any layperson can use it even though they don't understand it.
    - agumonkey 6y ago
      but uniswap is already presented as something for the people, it's not experts talking to experts or infrastructure
      - dannyw 6y ago
        I don't know what exactly you were trying to do, but the steps are pretty simple 1. Download Metamask. 2. Deposit your tokens, or purchase them from metamask. 3. Go to Uniswap. 4. Swap.