The way to increase the price of Ethereum is to build and use apps on Ethereum.

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

isn't this by proxy Base tho?  

still way too expensive to use anything as an app on Ethereum proper ...

🎩 first, but I like being part of this experiment that is the Farcaster network. 

I just assume that build on eth means build on some L2 at this point

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ya I do too, but I think the average consumer will find that extremely confusing, which is the paradox of his point imo (just use apps on Ethereum)

I haven't tried onboarding from scratch since I first joined FC/crypto last April, but it was a nightmare then. This is one specific area where I do hope better regulatory will make it easy to go from fiat -> Base eth. 

Or where all of these L2s can somehow get obfuscated from the UI/UX (I haven't been around long enough to know if this is a blasphemous idea or not).

I have been reading that the big new update launching this year will fix a lot of these problems for Ethereum, but I am not deep enough in the trenches to be able to articulate exactly how it works and what it does (other than I think it fixes this UX/UI friction). 

But yes, I have given up trying to onboard anyone through this maze from L1 > L2 in all honesty ... a nightmare still.