androidsixteen 🌲
@androidsixteen.eth
Re-listening to @dwr.eth and @fredwilson.eth chat, and had a realization — web to mobile was a straightforward platform shift (relatively speaking), yet Tumblr and other web players couldn’t adapt Crypto is a much more Byzantine platform shift, yet many assume incumbents will learn how to add wallets and chains — unlikely! https://youtu.be/Kqf_9NxhMfI?feature=shared
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kia
@kia
playing the other side: is it similar to platform shifts (web to mobile) tho? or more like swapping paypal vs stripe vs some legacy credit card provider for your website/app
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androidsixteen 🌲
@androidsixteen.eth
Good counterpoint, but I think you could reason about mobile that way (and arguably, companies did... and failed) Ie. "is it a real platform shift, or is it just changing the size of the screen?" Narrator: it was a real platform shift
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kia
@kia
yeah i could be wrong though the whole 'abstracting crypto away' means that there should be no change to the interface i mean as much as i like the idea of this being a platform shift it just seems like that thesis is contradictory to the 'user mustn't know its crypto' approach that's popular amongst some consumer products
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androidsixteen 🌲
@androidsixteen.eth
You don't user Uber because it's installed on a phone, you use it because you're not at your computer and you need a car Similarly, when crypto apps become mainstream, people won't use them because they care about "onchain" but rather because it does something the old platform can't -- we just need to experiment more to find the sauce
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