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Yes, but the way you're rationalizing it is pretty insular. UX is not the problem - you can solve this a billion different ways. The problem is that unseating p

Yes, but the way you're rationalizing it is pretty insular. UX is not the problem - you can solve this a billion different ways. The problem is that unseating predominate concentrations of wealth is impossible. The stated goal that you (and others) are expecting is a pipe dream. > Steve Jobs famously said Steve Jobs was a good marketer and a mediocre businessman. The fact that so many people here take him at face value is like if researchers from the future thought Charlie Chaplin was a drama actor. It's embarrassing that anyone with the gall to call something a "tech bubble illusion" would cite Steve "Reality Distortion Field" Jobs, but here we are. I gotta get off this site... > The longer that this space continues to focus on and struggles to get traction for novelty toy products The space is novelty toy products. What did you really expect, for the IMF to roll over and "give you one for free"? Have you not followed the past century of macroeconomics?

confoundcofound 3y ago
Respectfully disagree. I think UX is the problem. If there are a billion different ways to solve it, why haven't they? Centralized systems make wealth hard to unseat, but they also afford a level of UX – convenience, failsafes, oversight, etc – that is simply out of reach for decentralized products today.
- smoldesu 3y ago
  > If there are a billion different ways to solve it, why haven't they? QR codes don't ring a bell? Failing that, custodial wallets, escrow transactions, credit cards that turned crypto into fiat... these have been around for close to a decade now. I don't like cryptocurrency; but I know what it looked like a decade ago and feel like the UX was often easier than paying with card. > but they also afford a level of UX – convenience, failsafes, oversight, etc – that is simply out of reach for decentralized products today. You should tell that to all the proprietary UNIX variants. I'm sure their graveyard is getting pretty lonely nowadays.

confoundcofound 3y ago

Respectfully disagree. I think UX is the problem. If there are a billion different ways to solve it, why haven't they? Centralized systems make wealth hard to unseat, but they also afford a level of UX – convenience, failsafes, oversight, etc – that is simply out of reach for decentralized products today.

smoldesu 3y ago
> If there are a billion different ways to solve it, why haven't they? QR codes don't ring a bell? Failing that, custodial wallets, escrow transactions, credit cards that turned crypto into fiat... these have been around for close to a decade now. I don't like cryptocurrency; but I know what it looked like a decade ago and feel like the UX was often easier than paying with card. > but they also afford a level of UX – convenience, failsafes, oversight, etc – that is simply out of reach for decentralized products today. You should tell that to all the proprietary UNIX variants. I'm sure their graveyard is getting pretty lonely nowadays.