the tough reality for crypto-based social platforms: 90% of people are here for one thing—number go up. Builders trying to make genuine, lasting products are up against a crowd that checks out the moment their portfolios dip. Hard to build community when everyone’s just watching the charts.

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The goal, then, shouldn't be to attract people already in the crypto space, but those outside of it with features that are friendly and useful to people who aren't crypto-forward. That turns today's 90% into tomorrow's 10%.

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I think the tech has come around to be competitive with users' expectation of speed and convenience from traditional apps. 

At the risk of having drank too much of the Flavoraid, I think we're at a point of sufficiently-low latency and stability of onchain currencies to make it appealing for people who aren't ideologically concerned with decentralization - i.e., bitcoin is only useful to people who care about censorship, but single-second, cheap/free USDC transfers that cross borders easily is useful to people who just want to send some money to their parents or friends.

We've been saying that for a decade and change