Why does saying "I work in crypto" feels so cringey and awkward?
Feels like the "crypto" word itself is too loaded, meaning scams, get rich quick, and 'crypto bro' culture.
I think we've had it great with the Web3 storytelling. It was the strongest narrative we've had:
Web1: "Read-Only" -> Web2: "Read-Write" -> Web3: "Read-Write-Own"
Yet 'Web3' isn't trendy anymore. I don't use it myself much.
It's like after the Metaverse, GameFi, and NFT bubbles we stopped pushing the 'Web3' story, because.... it got cringey as well?
But I think Web3 is the single best narrative that unifies what crypto has to offer.
Even more now than in 2020-22 bull cycle due to AI.
The value of censorship resistance, user ownership, and privacy is important to many.
Yet, most people view crypto not as a solution, but as a step toward a dystopian future.
We're terrible at selling crypto... I mean the Web3 vision to the masses.
Maybe I should push the Web3 term once again. 7 replies
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It's mostly because we are not delivering. I use the term Web3 every day, but the thing is, people do not see it as the next step in tech evolution, because we're not delivering anything (not anything of course, just making it sound more dramatic 😁).
However, what we have created so far is a bunch of online casinos, trading platforms that usually get rugged or hacked, some metaverse attempts, that have no logical use case... And, of course GameFi, which is... well that's gaming.
We promote the degen lifestyle and expect to have adoption. Honestly I think that most of the Web3 users just want the adoption to have more inexperienced users they could extract the value from... 1 reply
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