The big ugly problem facing the crypto space:

Will any of the products and protocols funded by speculation use cases have any use at all for mainstream use cases?

Do Curve or Aave or DAI matter for people who aren’t using the blockchain like an underregulated casino?

There’s an ongoing quest for legit non-speculation use cases: Private blockchains for enterprise coordination. Banking the underbanked. P2P payments. Payroll. Identity. Fundraising. 

But we’re trying to develop these narratives around people and projects mostly just here to gamble. Those are the early adopters.

not-knowing ✹ 🍕-fan ✹ productive discomfort + idk ✹ Marseille / Singapore / Auvergne ✹ The Uncertainty Mindset (2020) ✹ now: vaughntan.org/now-ish

100%

I'd even go further and say that a lot of the speculation use cases are attractive because they are incomprehensible. Complexity is viewed as "alpha" and being as early as possible on hard to use systems is rewarded with airdrops.

This is directly opposite of what we typically want to see in all other use cases.

i think one of the many hurdles is that nonspeculation usecases need to be comprehensible to adopters for whom the idea of new infrastructure is inherently fearsome or at least not yet collectively legitimised